The first week on my work service is now down so today I'll explain a little of what is it I'm doing in it.
Previous posts you might want to check out if you're not familiar with what is the civil service about:
My Civil Service #2 - First week in the education center - The worst is already behind
My Civil Service #3 - The civil service center in the middle of a peaceful countryside
My Civil Service #4 - Mindfully increasing my life saving skills
My service place in Vantaa city's drug services where my main job is to be a assistant janitor in the clinic where people with drug problems can get help for their addiction. The first week consisted of observing the main janitor who I work with in the Eastern unit of the city and practicing the simple tasks that he does; receiving and guiding clients, booking some clients into a database and breathalysing compensation treatment patients who come seeking their meds.
It might sound scary dealing with drug addicts but they are all voluntarily in the treatment and there has been rarely any kind of troubling in the facility. Even if there was some, the workers are safe behind a locked door that can be controlled from the janitor room. So throw all the prejudices out the window, it's useful especially with my job; imagine stepping in to a lobby and the first guy seeing you despises you when you're actually getting help for your problems. Not very nice, is it?
Even though I'm a civil servant there, I'm as much of a employee as anyone else and treated equally, except for the fact I get paid 5,10€ of day money + 13,50€ of food money (ahem... "thank you" government for making me a slave for not wanting to be trained to be a piece of a war machinery).
Though it's still about 560€ per month most of which I'll get to save (and invest to crypto, of course) because I still live at home so I don't have much expenses other than just some lunch for work which I'll economically cover with bread, peanuts (a great work lunch; they're good for you and the cost to calories ratio is great, like 600-700 calories per 100 grams), beans and other canned goodies.
But for the next week I'm already being commanded to the Western unit of the city because the janitor in it got ill and sick leave for the next week, so it remains to be seen how I'll handle the janitoring alone with a working experience of a one week😅
But no worries; In case of uncertainty I'll just bother my co-workers to whom I'm trying to navigate in the new clinic.
And if someone questions of what I'm doing I'll just be like:
I don't have pictures from my work place because it's in a office complex so there's not even a lot to photo but here's a cool graffiti just nearby:
