Personally, I am very happy with the renewed interest in space travel. I can’t tell you the number of nights I have sat around thinking about what it would be like to be weightless orbiting the Earth. My undergraduate research project, “Thermal Equilibrium of a Critical Fluid” was done on an apparatus built for space. There were three built. One went on one of the space shuttles and another one was in my lab (so my college adviser told me). I love space travel and it is one of the motivators for me studying physics. Bezos and the rest of the would be astronaut zillionaires are taking a lot of flack in social media about going to space. All I know is that if I had a couple of billion dollars I too might take a space flight.
Something else I would look into solving is increased pay for social workers. I hate to stereotype an entire industry but here I go: the social workers I have met in my life have been loving, caring, hardworking, highly-educated community leaders that are working tirelessly to make the world a better place. Almost every social worker I know is UNDER PAID! A good portion of these people have masters degrees!!
This is something I spoken about many times before! Check out this tiktok on it by me:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtQfUgo/
The average social worker salary is $59K.
Compare that to this:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdtQG5jh/
Programming is easy! There I said it. On the other hand trying to convince someone you don’t know who has lost all hope at 3am on a rainy night at a train station not to take their life is freaking hard. And its hard on everyone. It is emotionally draining. I LOVE this sign I noticed at #LIRR this morning. I am going to donate to Long Island Crisis Center this morning just to say thank you!
Seriously, what is more valuable to you?
- That latest gadget from an IT firm that you haven’t needed your whole life so far.
- Or knowing someone is there at 3am to save your love one’s life because they ran into a messy situation.
Isn’t point 2 worth paying almost anything? If it were someone I really cared about, I would hope that the person on the other line had the emotional strength to deal with the situation, the resources they needed to save my loved one, and the time needed to recover from such a difficult work moment. Listen if you haven’t talked someone off the ledge, then you have no idea how much of toll it can take.
We need to change the social contract so that we care about the people who care for us! Thank you for your wonderful program #LIRR!
Keep being heroes social workers!
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