My Motivation To Be A Social Worker

My motivation to be a social worker initially came up by my aunt. Since childhood, I realized that my aunt, a Macanese, was a deaf. Even though our conversation depended on a pen and pieces of paper, we had tight relationship because she treated me like her own children. Unfortunately, my aunt split after twenty years of marriage spontaneously due to my uncle’s adultery. After that, aunt loss of interest in everything, even communicated with people. She persistently felt anxious to her future life and had hallucination lately. When I was in high school, my aunt was diagnosed as suffering from depression, a seriously one. For quite a long period, my mum stayed at Macau to accompany with my aunt and I went there once a month. I still memorized …show more content…
My main duty as a welfare worker is to measure physical health by controlling the blood pressure and blood sugar and mental health by having communication regularly of 100 services users, a three-year EHealth project sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club. Moreover, I am responsible for the operation of Vitality Academy for Life Long Learning, to organize some innovative activities to young old. Through a year, I get more understanding and discovery to this industry and to elderly, even to myself. For the industry, I am fortunate to experience multifaceted work, such as organizing loads of big events or designing eye-catching poster. However, some colleagues are dissatisfied with this because they thought holding a large-scale event is a waste of time, even impairing their professional as social workers. Yet, I would say social worker is diverse, and should have innovative perception on their role. Our Centre would invite celebrities and sponsors to the events for the purpose of demonstrating newly developed projects. It could seize the financial support from sponsor and indirectly benefit to the old. As long as the funding could enhance more services to the aged, it is well worth of doing that. For elderly, due to my job content, I met those who go to centre regularly. In my observation, most of them prefer to stay out because of the unbearable boredom after retirement. I used to think the aged are confined to learn new things by reason of their degenerate physical strength and intelligence. Surprisingly, many of them are willing to receive new information and knowledge like the mobile technology. It definitely breaks the obsolete image of the elderly in my mind. Elderly in their retirement could live every moment to its fullest. For myself, over a year, It is enjoyable to all the challenges I have met in workplace, for instance, dealing with the conflicts between services users dexterously or