My Job Didn’t Give Me Cancer

But it didn’t help.

“person standing on gray steel frame on top of building” by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash

I remember the day I finally quit.

I had been sitting in court all morning waiting to testify on my concerns about the abilities of the parents of two very young boys. Afterall, I was the social worker who had been tasked with monitoring their progress for the past year or more. I wasn’t called. The judge listened to the attorneys…