From 03ad9c5e6f136566d449295a54cb42d5012ac927 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Finn LeSueur Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 20:45:47 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Make last paragraph make sense --- content/posts/2023-10-08-vocational-awe.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/posts/2023-10-08-vocational-awe.md b/content/posts/2023-10-08-vocational-awe.md index c62bf55..7c370de 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023-10-08-vocational-awe.md +++ b/content/posts/2023-10-08-vocational-awe.md @@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ Two really good blog posts get into this concept: I think it's pretty easy to see places where vocational awe gets used. Here in New Zealand it plays a big role in the public sector and has done a great job at maintaining the status quo of undervaluing the foundations of our society. [Ministries](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/123707034/overstretched-underfunded-and-inequitable-incoming-health-minister-andrew-little-warned-system-is-under-immense-strain) [are](https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/in-underfunding-unis-we-have-so-much-to-lose) [chronically](https://www.tehopai.co.nz/about/current-news/news-items/report-calls-for-review-of-underfunded-aged-care-sector.html) [underfunded](https://nzambulance.org.nz/funding); work piles up on people as managers and bosses avoid hiring new staff; the excuse that you "do it for the greater good" or "not in it for the money" or "because they love it" is trotted out again and again. Doctors [work 16 hour shifts](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/313165/safety-questions-as-doctors-work-12-shifts-in-row-of-16-hours) and cover their colleagues because there are no relievers; classrooms increase in size; paperwork (much like stonks) only goes up; and some governments cut funding without stopping to examine the consequences on their staff, and on the country. -But. But! We do it for the love and the praise in lieu of improved pay and conditions and it __has__ to stop. +But. But! Workers __must__ value themselves, they __must__ ask for fair pay and conditions and they __must__ work together for the better. + +

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari kē he toa takitini
My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, it was not individual success but the success of a collective.

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