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Saturday May 28, 2005 09:57

by Sean Crudden - impero

sean at impero dot iol dot ie

Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth.

042 93 71310

What is the Real Agenda in a Professional Career?

In what way does the personal agenda of each member of the professions affect the course and shape and quality of the lives of their clients? Perhaps it does not matter what motivates the professional or what way s/he thinks?

My father Ned was a psychiatric nurse who worked in The Mental Hospital in Ardee. One time in the late 50’s or early 60’s he was talking about my younger brother Jimmy who was finishing school around that time to the RMS in the hospital, Dr J. J. Wilson. "Tell him to go into psychiatry - it’s a great racket!" Wilson said.

My father who died in 1982 was enthusiastic about the advice and related it to the family many times. My brother Jimmy is now retired after completing his career in the police and is still involved in security tasks around Newbridge where he has lived for most of his life.

Dr Wilson and his wife who was also a psychiatrist are both dead. Dr J. J. Wilson died in 2002 around the same time as my mother and he was able to buy a farm in Kildare and property in Dublin from the proceeds of the "racket" he and his wife were involved in during their professional careers.

Possibly Wilson is involved in another racket in the sky these days - running a huxter’s shop or a shebeen maybe and perhaps my father is going around in the same place innocently and gullibly lapping up misleading advice.

I worked as a vocational teacher from the mid 60’s to the mid 70’s and I never felt as comfortable or as self-satisfied as Dr Wilson obviously did. Perhaps if I had approached the problem in a different way I could have turned it into a racket - a nice little money spinner.

Psychiatry, medicine, the law and even teaching have descended shamelessly and barefacedly in our time to the level of a racket. There is even more cynicism abroad now than there was in the days of Dr Wilson. At least he was enthusiastic about the prospect of making money. The rackets today are flat and stale and profit no-one.

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Comments (4 of 4)

Lady of Business backgorounds

by Miss Elaine Hobson - Business Consultantcy

Sat May 28, 2005 23:41

Clogherhead

Yes most professions are a racket but we have to take a lead after consultation and get justice after referring to our constitution and then writing to the director involved and have the professional removed form his or her office as we adhere to the constitution. We can not tolerate the said mal practices and must abide by the rules of good business practice. Gosh I need a lage voadka now after reviewing all this.

Cheers

Elaine

A load of cods wobble

by Therese Campbell

Wed Jun 01, 2005 19:30

Dundalk

Money and plenty of sex is what motivates all Sean. I used to play with you in Smarmore when we were kids.

Emperor's New Clothes

by poor virgin

Sun Jun 05, 2005 01:42

George Bernard Shaw said that all professions are a conspiracy against the laiety.

Most do as little as possible for as much as possible, and only the lucky ones end up doing a job they actually like. Everyone suffers in the meantime.

Institutions ossify, and wages are the death-knell of sincere work.

Sex is a messy business - I hear.

those who can do...

by cod

Sun Jun 05, 2005 02:08

Building sh*t and carpentary - it's the way of the future I tell you. And if it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Couldn't help with the sex business sorry.

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