Yep, regular old social workers that George Krieser, Wayne Macleod and Deanna Natale. Most of your "clients" are going to need a counsellor or social worker after they get turfed out of their homes; so I guess you've made a good career choice as far as employment prospects go.

As for drug and alcohol counselling, aren't most drug and alcohol counsellors [How do I put it delicately] addicts themselves? That's why budhibbs.com makes the remark that most bottom feeding collectors
are mentally unstable, or at least unsound, and often end up in collection themselves - once they've blown all the money they've scavenged off their "clients." By the way there's a guy on the front page of Saturday's edition of the Toronto Sun, a cancer victim whose lost part of his lung and is/was getting turfed from his apartment because he lost his job. I'm just taking a wild guess but I'll bet he's behind on some of his other bills too. Being part of your target market, perhaps there's another lead you can "help."

Yep, one look at all the TCR blog submissions here and over at the discovervancouver forum really convinces me that you don't go after accident victims and widows losing their homes. No sir!!! Well, the reader can gloss those and the Five Star Mortgage threads and draw their own conclusions.

As to your question: Would a "collection agency" and pathological liar be going to school to become a social service worker? or a Drug and Alcohol Counsellor? Well, I think that's what Karla Homolka (Paul Bernardo's ex) got her degree in when she went to prison. Indeed, psychology and social work seem to be the most popular fields of work among the incarcerated as well as strippers and others in the "adult" field. (Solid state physics and microbiology seem to be on the wane.)

"Some of us are actually empathetic people."

Yep!

Again, as with Milo Bloom, might I humbly suggest that you do something more useful with your life. I'm not being at all sarcastic in saying if you like to nibble on dead carcasses, perhaps get a job with the Ministry of Transportation scraping dead animals off the highway. Admittedly, not as remunerative as being a Darwinian scavenger of the financial world, but you would be getting to do something you enjoy as well as a skill set honorable and useful for society. In fact, Monty knows Catherine McMillan who runs the weblog "Small Dead Animals - The Roadkill Diaries" who ran a feature on an ex-TCR reisefuhrer last summer. Perhaps she could help you get started.

Hope all this counselling helps. Maybe I should become a social worker?

Ray

P.S. I keep forgetting to ask. Just how big is George Krieser's yacht?