School VS Work.

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Choice count: 38

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Field Related Analysis:

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 62 matches (absence, accident, act, agency, bailiff, Bar, case, children, client, clients, community, company, condition, conference, contact, contract, crime, criminal record, criminal, criminology, death, detention, director, driving, drugs, escape, fact, family, four, harassment, House, intervention, intimidation, issue, judge, justice, majority, misconduct, notice, offense, office, order, parole, pension, police officer, probation, prostitution, public, record, schedule, security, seller, Sexual, society, Special, street, suicide, surveillance, test, trust, user, warrant)

Tourism : 42 matches (Agency, Alcohol, Breakfast, Brochure, Client, Concordia, Conference, Connection, Contract, Control, Deal, Glass, Guide, Human, Luxury, Metro, Program, Resources, bar, brochure, ceiling, conference, contract, course, door, field, fin, green, guide, pass, pension, program, public transport, reception, salon, sex, single, stop, through, times, vacation, warrant)

Nursing : 40 matches (absence, accident, addiction, adult, alcohol, ambulance, body, cancer, cell, cold, contact, test, culture, death, director, drug, effects, fit, foot, Health, heart, heroin, hospital, HR, injuries, isolation, sign, medical, mean, N, organism, position, psychologist, pulse, skin, sleep, social, suicide, trust, sick)

Target Structure:

a foot in the door (1 match)

background check (1 match)

come in handy (1 match)

dead-end job (1 match)

HR (2 matches)

income (1 match)

intern (1 match)

internship (1 match)

learn the ropes (1 match)

leave of absence (1 match)

misconduct (1 match)

more often than not (1 match)

OJT (1 match)

on-the-job-training (1 match)

overtime (1 match)

pension (2 matches)

sexual harassment (1 match)

straight A's (1 match)

vacant position (1 match)

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School VS Work.

High school is almost over!

You’re about to finish high school and now you have to send your applications to get into the college of your choice or you go directly to work and you don’t pursue your study further.

Choice 1 : You go work for correctional service Canada as a correction officer.

Choice 2 : You apply at John Abbott College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

Choice 3 : You apply at Ahuntsic College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

High school graduation

You go work for correctional service Quebec as a correction officer.

After having a very precise background check, the HR contacts you to tell you that you’re one of the lucky people that gets hired with only a high school degree. You’re sent of to Nicolet to get your correction officer training. You are far away from your family and you really miss them. Everything is great. You passed the training and now you’re officially a correction officer. You now have a job at Bordeaux. Your clientele is in a majority street gang and organized crime. All the pimps are sent there. You love the prisoners there and they love you. They keep telling you how good you are and how they feel like they have a strong connection with you. They open to you about personal matters and you feel like you’re doing a wonderful job. One of them starts to flirt with you and you like the fact that he is a bad boy and that you have to keep your relationship a secret. Of course, the guy starts telling all of his friends about the fact that he is having sex with one of the correction officers. Your boss puts you under surveillance, and they catch you, having sex in the cell of the prisoner. Since it’s prohibited, you get fired and you wait for you " boyfriend " to get out of jail. When he’s released, you move in together and you’re starting to realise that he is really violent and you’re scared of him. He starts to beat you up when you don’t do what he asked you and you got sent to the hospital a couple of time. You always lie about how you got your injuries because you don’t want him to get sent back to jail. One night, you try to escape from him because he became crazy. Sadly, you’re not fast enough, and he kills you by stabbing you 17 times. The End.

Choice 1 : Go back to you apply at John Abbott College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

Choice 2 : You apply at Ahuntsic College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

correction officer

You apply at John Abbott College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

It’s your first day of school. It just took you 2 hours of public transport to go to school. You finally found the class and it’s disgusting. It’s not like the picture on the brochure or the way your cousin describe it to you. You can’t believe you’re going to be stuck doing 4 hours of public transport to come here. After a week, you realise that the people that go to this school here are snobs and mean. Also, your teachers are really not good, and they keep canceling their classes at the last minute when you’re already on your way to school. You really regret not choosing Ahuntsic College right away. You met with the API to cancel your semester because you couldn't take it anymore. You’re going crazy.

Choice 1 : You apply at Ahuntsic College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

Choice 2 : You go work for correctional service Quebec as a correction officer.

John Abbott College

You apply at Ahuntsic College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention.

Best choice you could have ever done. You love it here. You’re excited to go to school in the morning. Your classmates are amazing and you have the best teachers in the world. You fit completely in this school and you know you’re going to have the best 3 years of your life. You weren’t wrong. Your three years of college past by so fast and it’s already time for you to choose if you go work right away or if you want a higher diploma and go to university.

Choice 1 : You apply to work at Anonyme, a resource for drugs users.

Choice 2 : You apply to work for Correctional Service Canada.

Choice 3 : You apply to universities.

Ahuntsic College

You apply to work at Anonyme, a resource for drugs users.

After three years of working hard and applying yourself at school, you decided to go work for a community resource called Anonyme. This organism gives clean tools to use your drugs safely. Since the organism operate 22:30 to 5 a.m. you only work night shifts and don’t have a social life or a life at all anymore. After two years you got really sick of your job and you decide to quit and go back to school. You apply to university.

Choice 1 : You apply to work for Correctional Service Canada.

Choice 2 : You apply to universities.

L'anonyme's bus

You apply to universities.

You're now in your sixth and last semester of college. It’s time for you to apply to some universities. You go visit 5 universities and you narrow down your choice to two of them : University of Montreal and Concordia University. You know that your internships and your straight A’s will come in handy.

Choice 1 : You got accepted at University of Montreal !

Choice 2 : You got accepted at Concordia University !

university

You apply to work for Correctional Service Canada.

At the end of your program, you apply to work at the correctional service Canada. You are so lucky, you get hired right away. You’re sent of to Kingston to get your correction officer training. You are far away from your family and you really miss them. Everything is great. You passed the training and now you’re officially a correction officer. They place you at the RRC, the regional reception center. You love your job. You get to work with organized crime and the wing you love the most is special detention unit, SDU. There, they have to worst and the most dangerous criminals in the country. If you do one mistake, you could die. Since you went to school and you graduated in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention, you couldn’t be more prepare to interact with them and control them. You work in that prison for almost a decade. You create a family and you comfortable. One day, you enter yourself in a polling to get a higher job. Your boss comes to see you and ask you if you have a university diploma. You tell them no. This is what pushed you to quit your job and go back to school. You wanted to become a correction officer level 4, but right now, you're working in a dead-end job. So, you apply to go back to a university.

Choice 1 : You apply to work at Anonyme, a resource for drugs users.

Choice 2 : You apply to universities.

Federal prison

You got accepted at University of Montreal !

You applied to do a major in criminology at University of Montreal and you got accepted! You just love your program and you can’t get enough of being an intern. You appreciate every moment of on-the-job-training that you get because you know this is how you will learn the ropes. It’s now time to apply for real jobs because school is almost over and it’s time for you to go on with your life.

Choice 1 : You're a parole officer.

Choice 2 : You're the provincial director.

university of montreal

You got accepted at Concordia University !

You applied at Concordia University to major in social work. You find your program fascinating. You learn all about the psychological way that those people use to interact with one and other. You learn techniques to help people in need and to help them to retake the control they lost over their lives. You know several social workers so you already have a foot in the door. When you finish school, you hesitate between to employers : Department of Youth Protection, or CLSC. You know it’s two complete different dynamics, but you love both of them.

Choice 1 : You get a job for the CLSC!

Choice 2 : Social worker for the department of youth protection. This has got to be a challenging job.

Concordia University

You're a parole officer.

You get a job faster than you thought you would, because they need someone to fill in for a parole officer who is on leave of absence. You get no OJT because they are short staff. One day, you go meet with a client to check if he respects his probation, but he is not at the halfway house he is supposed to be at. You put a warrant on his name so the police can fin him as fast as he can. After 12 hours, they find him in a bar, high on coke, and he is with people with a criminal record. When you’re informed of that, you realise that he broke all of his conditions and you send him back to prison. What you forgot is that this client is one of the most powerful guys in the Mafia. As soon as he learns that you’re the reason why he is back in jail, he puts a contract on your head to get you killed. Three days later, you’re driving on your when to work and you get shot in the head. You die on the moment. The End.

Choice 1 : Go back to you apply to universities.

parole officer

You're the provincial director.

You apply to work as a provincial director for the director of youth protection to help the kids that entered the criminal justice system under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. You work to help underage criminal to establish an intervention plan to make the reintegration into society easier to them. You help them work on their criminogenic factors in a way that they don’t let those guide their life’s choices, so they can create a positive future out of prison or penitentiary. You also help them if they have mental health issues such as addiction to a substance like alcohol or drugs. You try to make them realise that what they did is wrong and that if they leave the criminal world and go up the right path, they will not commit another criminal offense. You always work overtime, but you don’t mind, because those kids need you. They don’t want to let them go to like every other adult they ever had in their lives. You make a career out of it. You go 2 times to maternity leaves because you got pregnant and you gave life to two beautiful children. You create for you and your family a beautiful life and you’re enjoying every single moment of it. Money is never an issue for you. You go on vacation with all your family two weeks every year. After 25 years in this position, you decide that it’s time for you to leave your place to the younger generation and you retire. Over the years, you’ve accumulated a big pension that you can not wait to use in your retiring years. You have help multiples kids to stay of the streets and you created with them a wonderful future for them to enjoy. You are now off to travel the world with your husband. The End.

Choice 1 : You want to change your path? Go back to you apply to universities.

Juvenile center

You get a job for the CLSC!

You see on the website Indeed that there is a vacant position with a good income to work for the CLSC. The job is to give conference in all the high schools in Laval to show the students the impact of intimidation and cyber-intimidation on someone’s life. It’s also to teach them about the negatives sides of drugs and alcohol and finally what to do in a sexual harassment case. After two months on the job, you get sick of it and you’re really bored. You feel like you have to do something to pimp it a little. One of your colleagues realise what you’re going through, and she offers you coke and speed. Starting at this moment, you come more often than not to working high and your boss starts to see that there’s something wrong with you. She makes the whole office pass a random drug test and obviously you failed it. You get fired for misconduct. You are now a drug addict with no job to support this addiction. Now that you have no more incomes, you start to accumulate a lot of debts and you have to find a quick way to make money of you’ll lose your house.

Choice 1 : A quick way to make money? Prostitution.

Choice 2 : A quick way to make money? There is none.

CLSC

A quick way to make money? Prostitution.

You know, from all the studying in that subject, that there is only one way to make a lot of money really quick and that way is prostitution. So, you call an agency and you ask them if they need a new girl to work for them. You know how to deal with them and you say that you will work for them as a long as you keep half of you make. They, of course, agree to those condition and this is how you got introduced in this world as a prostitute. The more clients you were doing, the more drugs you were taking. One day, you were so high, you weren’t able to do what the client asked you to do. Sadly, it was an aggressive client and instead of finding ways to sober you up, he beat you up badly, and he kills you. You were found dead three days later by the authorities and your killer ended up in a maximal security federal prison.

Choice 1 : A quick way to make money? There is none.

Choice 2 : Go back to: You apply to universities.

prostitution

A quick way to make money? There is none.

You’re a really lazy person and you don’t feel like busting your butt to get together all the money you need. So, after two weeks, someone from the bailiff’s office comes and puts a notice on your house and you get evicted. You end up becoming homeless. You meet a bunch of really nice people and you do drugs with all of them. You finally felt like you are a part of a community. You all live either at the metro station Place-des-Arts or on the corner of Ste-Catherine Street and St-Laurent Blvd. You really enjoyed your summer, but when winter comes, you realise that it’s freezing and you have nowhere to go. On December 27, the temperature goes down to -45 degrees and your heartbeat as slowed down so much because of the cold and the heroïn that you inject yourself. At one point during the night, your heart stops beating completely forever. One of your so called friends take your pulse and sees that you’re dead. He takes all of your clothes and your personal belonging, and he leaves you naked in the street. Two days after you died, one police officer sees you naked. He tried to wake you up, but has no success. He brings you to the hospital and you are officially declared dead by the doctors. The End.

Choice 1 : A quick way to make money? Prostitution.

Choice 2 : Go back to: You apply to universities.

homeless person in the metro

Social worker for the department of youth protection. This has got to be a challenging job.

For your first job as a real social worker, you decide to apply to work for Centre Jeunesse de Montreal. Two weeks after you sent them you resume, someone from the HR calls you to schedule an interview. You nailed your interview with Caroline. She loved you. You knew everything, because of the internships you did in college. She makes you come in two days later for you to do all the other tests like a psychometric test and the medical one. Not even a week later, the boss of the human resource calls you to tell you that you are hired and you have to pass by to sign your contract. She offers you a full time job either at Cite-des-Prairies with teenage boys or a part-time job at Dominique-Savio to work with kids with mental problems.

Choice 1 : You choose to work at Dominique-Savio.

Choice 2 : You choose to work at Cite-des-prairies.

Department of youth protection

You choose to work at Dominique-Savio.

You decide to take the part-time job at Dominique-Savio. You thought it would be a good first experience and from there, you could get a higher position in the ‘’company’’. On your first day, you realise of the girls is missing. Since she’s 10 years old you contact the police to alert them. A couple of hours later, you see 4 police officers trying to contempt that little girl who ran away. Her name is Lilia. From what you’ve read in her files, her mom was a prostitute, and she would bring her clients home. She would make her girls, she had 4 daughters, dance naked on the coffee table in front of the clients so it would excite them before they would go in the bedroom with the mother. Lilia is really traumatized from her childhood. She doesn’t trust any man and when one of them touches her, she makes sex noises so everybody else thinks she’s being abused. Sadly, the police officers were all men and it took all four of them to get her to sit in the police car. They were nice enough to put her in her bedroom. When you saw that, you called immediately the intervention agents. After the police left, you went to check on her and when she saw you, she broke her clock and started to eat the glass. She would swallow some pieces, and she would spit out some. When you saw that, you made the agents enter the room, and they brought her the isolation room, so she would stop putting herself in danger. You shift finally ended and you were so tired. Three weeks after that accident, you lived a horrible experience any human being could ever live. One of your kids committed suicide. He had found a way to hang himself. You entered his room to tell him to come and eat breakfast and you just saw him there. Cold, blue and hanging from the ceiling. She screamed and almost fainted. Your colleagues came to see what was wrong, and they saw that horror scene too. You called your boss, the intervention agents, the police and the ambulance. You and your colleague had to remove the body from the rope and the ceiling. You didn’t even finished that shift. After that kid left in the ambulance, you left too and went straight to the psychologist's office. You quit your job the same day.

Choice 1 : Pandora VS Tifanny.

Dominique-Savio

You choose to work at Cite-des-prairies.

You decide to take the full time job at Cite-des-prairies. Your first time was the best day of your life. The work team was so nice. You felt like all the efforts you’ve been putting in school for the past 6 years is finally worth it. The guys are not bad at all and you recognize some of them from when you did your internship in college. In your second week of work, your unit receive a new little boy. He’s eleven years old. He’s younger than all the other guys, but he was such grown-up problems that he needs the resources from your unit. You read his file, and you see that his mother is a big heroin user, but you still don’t understand why he’s with you guys. He’s so small and delicate. You continue reading and then you understand why. The little guy himself is a big heroin user, and he’s on your caseload. So, you work with him and his mother for a year. You arrange meeting for them to see each other and to help create a good relationship between them. After a year, you see something really weird in Alex’s room. You see needles lying around every time after his mother visited. Before the next visit, you ask your boss if you can search the mother just to make sure she doesn’t bring drugs into the unit. You tell him what you saw, and he gave you the green light. A week later, the mother comes. You tell her you have to search her personal effects like her purse, her coat… You found a substance that looks like heroin. You send the mother home telling her she can’t see her son today. You also keep the substance and you send it to the lab to check what it was. The lab confirms your thoughts. It really was heroin. You can’t believe it. You fill up a request to go in front of judge to get a restraining order between Alex and his mother. The judge approves it and the mother is no longer allowed to come and see his son. From that moment on, you have to check Alex all the time because every single chance he has to escape, he takes them. Once every two weeks, he also finds a way to drink javel water to get sent to the hospital, because for him, it’s easier to escape from the hospital then from the juvenile center. Other than Alex, you make real progress with you other kids. They learn how to leave a normal life. You make a career out of it. You go 2 times to maternity leaves because you got pregnant and you gave life to two beautiful children. You create for you and your family a beautiful life and you’re enjoying every single moment of it. Money is never an issue for you. You go on vacation with all your family two weeks every year. After 25 years in this position, you decide that it’s time for you to leave your place to the younger generation and you retire. Over the years, you’ve accumulated a big pension that you can not wait to use in your retiring years. You have help multiples kids to stay of the streets and you created with them a wonderful future for them to enjoy. What are you going to do now?

Choice 1 : Florida! Here I come!

Choice 2 : Italy! Here I come!

Cite-des-prairies

Florida! Here I come!

You decide after retiring to sell your house here in Montreal and to buy a new place in Florida. You’re sick and tired of the snow and the winter. Plus, Florida is not too far away if your children and grand-children wants to come and visit you. You live until you are 95 years old. You’ve played golf all you life and you don’t regret anything. You have lived a full and complete life. You passed away in your sleep, hand-to-hand with your husband. You couldn’t have a better death then this. The End.

Choice 1 : Go back to you choose to work at Cite-des-prairies.

Choice 2 : go back to social worker for the department of youth protection. This has got to be a challenging job.

Florida

Pandora VS Tifanny.

After that experience, you’ve realized that you really hate your field and it’s really too intense for you. You see that there is an opening job at Pandora. You apply and the manager hires you on the spot. You stay there 5 years, because it’s the minimum of luxury sales to get hired at Tiffany. You were for 5 years Pandora’s best-seller. When you leave them for Tiffany, they are really mad at you, but you don’t really care because you now work at Tiffany. You work there until you are 70 years old and a few months after you retired, you die of skin cancer because you went to often at the tanning salon. The End.

Choice 1 : Go back to social worker for the department of youth protection. This has got to be a challenging job.

Pandora Vs Tiffany

Italy! Here I come!

You decide after retiring to sell your house here in Montreal and to buy a new place in Italy. Both you and your boyfriend are Italians and you thought that they were no better time to go embrace you culture. Your couple is really rich so you decide to buy two houses, one in each region that you’re from. So, you buy a house in Compobasso and one in Calabria. You learn how to speak Italian and you live your best life. You have lived a full and complete life. You passed away in your sleep, hand-to-hand with your husband. You couldn’t have a better death then this. The End.

Choice 1 : Go back to social worker for the department of youth protection. This has got to be a challenging job.

Choice 2 : Go back to you choose to work at Cite-des-prairies.

Italy