The work is so satisfying, because every day I help individuals learn how to do new things or do things better, little things but very important. Her employer, the Waltham Committee Inc., is one of the 130 independent agencies affiliated with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, metro region, which launched a joint Workforce Recruitment Campaign on May 26 to attract candidates of all ages for direct care work in the Boston area.
Jobs cover a range of opportunities, with many choices of schedules.
Benefits are excellent. Training and career ladders are available. The pay, especially at the out-set, could be better. But Hurse, a single parent of three grown children, is 45-plus years old. After 17 years in corporate America, she left in 1990 as manager of corporate training and development for a major health company, did volunteer work for a time, and has been with the Waltham Committee for six years.