waiting on jackson

it's not fair that a person with as much education and heart has to work as many hours as she does, but that is the life of a therapist intern starting out in this world... much the same can be said for a doctor during internship i suppose... until the is fully licensed and develops her network and learns all the skills it takes to create a private practice (or just gets a good position with a good company), she is doing the grunt work, the first line of therapy, the work many don't want to do... she works with the poor and medicaid and the obscenely rich insurance companies do not pay enough to provide the care people really need... it is shameful in this country that mental health care (and education) are two of the lowest paid professions around... these two professions are so vital to a healthy society... one raises the nation's children... the other saves those losing their way from ending up in hospitals or prisons or cemeteries... it costs upwards of $100,000 and more to get the degrees needed to do these jobs at the least expensive universities, like buying a first house, and for years one struggles to pay off those debts and make ends meet... not fair, not fair at all...

it's 9pm and she's not home yet... her days start at 8am or earlier and she'll have paperwork to do when she finally gets home...

her dinner sits on the stove top...

not fair...