Reading some fun non-fiction

Nick Pettigrew - ‘Anti-Social: The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer’. I’m not even one hundred pages in yet (I’m reading more today), but I would recommend this book to everyone working with people: youth workers, community workers, other ASB officers, etc. and to everyone who isn’t.

For me, from a youth worker’s perspective, Pettigrew’s analyses are relatable, somewhat comforting, but also they’re a conversation about the challenges that all kinds of ‘people workers’ have to overcome. I find it so messed up that the only jobs that I can’t imagine taken over by robots, the inter-human jobs, are the most underfunded and undervalued.

Maybe in a decade, I’ll write The (not so) Secret Diary of a Youth Worker. These books are so important to make our voices heard as ‘people workers’ in general and raise awareness about everything going on behind the scenes. We do not do this enough, but I can understand why. Because too few people listen. We get tired. But we gotta keep trying.