[Closed] Wiggins to become a social worker

How interesting?

Like really interesting, or just interesting?

good luck to him. Hope he carries on riding and does not get fat.

Damn,I thought he was going to go out on tour with Weller.

Wonder how serious he really is? I can imagine wanting to do a degree in a subject that interests you, but to actually work in the field may be a different matter.
I wouldn’t have thought he needs to work, in the sense that we need to work. I’m going to an “evening with Bradley” at the end of September. Hasn’t he also got another TV show in the pipeline?

I’m going to an “evening with Bradley” at the end of September

Ask him if he's becoming a social worker in order  to take advantage of the local authorties Cycle to Work scheme.

I don’t give a s*** about my cycling career now,” Wiggins told The Big Issue magazine. “I’m just detached from it, I don’t want to live off the back of it. I live off being me, and I’m happy in my own skin.”

But doing `An Evening With .. " kinda says he is living off the back of his cycling career.

If he does decide to go into social work then he could be a huge benefit if he really means what he says (not what he appears to be doing). Some of the younger people I did my social work degree with seen the pretty decent starting off wage as a big motivator; but because of the nature of the job - those type of people don`t make the best social workers.

I wasn`t aware that there was an Open University route into a Social Work degree unless you were already within social services to ensure you do the required practical hours.

Ask him if he’s becoming a social worker in order to take advantage of the local authorties Cycle to Work Therapeutic exemption scheme.

IGMC...

I know it's just his name these days but it's a shame that they are calling it a day.

Good luck to him.

Of course the good thing about being a Social Worker is that you get to palm off any outstanding work you have left on a Friday afternoon to A&E or the police

😉

His opinion will only be valid on here once he reaches senior social worker rank, though.

Lol - From my experience A&E and Police think everything comes to us.

Mention of depression or anxiety (which nowadays everyone & their dog thinks they have) it’s straight to mental health team to assess.

Well, if he does it, his family will see even less of him than they did when he travelled the world as an elite athlete.

Athlete? I thought he was a cyclist?

Lol – From my experience A&E and Police think everything comes to us.

Nah, A&E thinks everything goes to the Medical Admissions Unit. It even has a name, "triage via admission".

A busy admissions unit is apparently a suitable 'place of safety' for a MH pt having an episode.

Have psych-liaison been disturbing you talking/drinking coffee at the desk again?