In a Nutshell

Counsellor # 2.

Oh, boy, where do I begin?  She was just ill qualified to do the job.  Does not career counseling require some basic understanding what psychology is or how to deal with people to begin with?  A lot of time in the Career Orientation Workshop is spent on personality profiles, figuring out who you are, what you like, what kind people you like to deal with.  That is all psychology.  She was absolutely and totally clueless.  She was parroting the manual to us, thank you very much!  I am totally dumbfounded when it comes to that stupid woman.

She was from a small city.  It is not a sin, but she just enjoyed the security and never knew real challenges in her life.  It was boring, so she said.  She worked there in retail.  She quit because customers drove her insane.  That is a good sign.  Maybe working with people was not her forte.  Then she moves into a big city and works in a corporate world for four years.  She hates every single day of it.  All the wanted was an image of prestige, a power suit or something like that.  Never happened.  Then she goes to a career counsellor and thinks, “Oh, I would like to do the same”.  Why spend time and effort in choosing a unique or maybe suitable path, if she can “just do the same”.  Just like a monkey.  If you cannot think, observe and imitate.  Maybe I am not really fair to monkeys.

Anyway.  What I observed during her “facilitation” sessions.  She never listened; I guess she was not interested.  She was complacent, bored out of her mind.  Oh, well, there is a “Blue Caring” personality (right! a lot of people pick Blue, but truly they are not, remember that there are one 12% of really Blue people).  She seemed to enjoy “I am the boss here” scenario, but what she failed to notice that most participants were more educated and more qualified than her.  She was neither blue, nor caring, she was not interested and not capable of helping.  But employed.

One day we discussed the barriers that people usually have to achieve goals.  Inertia was one of them.  Her vocabulary did not seem to be limited, but when it came to explanations, it became hilarious.  When she was struggling with a definition (it is really hard to define something if you do not really understand the thing you are trying to define).  I tried to help her, saying that inertia in physics was “this and that”.  Not just an explanation, but an example as well. 

She snapped at me “We are not in the physics class!”

Of course, we were not.  I, with my Masters in Engineering, have to listen to a Canadian from a small town with some questionable “diploma in God knows what” who cannot define “inertia”, but teaches it.  How do you like it so far?

If it did happen to me now, I would have gone all the way to check her qualifications, I would have looked at her diploma, the curriculum, her marks and I would have asked her to define terms on the spot without looking anywhere.  Inertia included.

That is how I feel.  And you know why?  Because after all the work I have done on defining my personality profile I asked that stupid woman a question and what she replied:  “I DO NOT KNOW YOU”.  What the hell then are you doing in JVS counseling me?

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Posted on August 4th, 2009 under JVS Toronto - WISE • Tags: blue, career counselling, education, inertia, JVS, psychology, WISE. • • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback