June 24th 2005 Godalming, Surrey, England. Well, how time does fly. The last week has been spent in care-work training, as predicted. It was actually really good, with the content allaying many a fear, until I'm now altogether much more comfortable with the idea - and the purported reality - of a care worker's duties and responsibilities. The attitude of the trainers and the company staff was fairly casual and good-natured, which was a relief as I'd been nervous at the idea of a super-serious psychological evaluation-type of training with cameras monitoring our every move and all of that. But they're not like that, and I quite like everybody I've met so far. My primary trainer even reminds me of a certain ‘roster nazi’ from my last job, with her quirky humour and tough-as-nails, hard-ass attitude.
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