Social Work Month Shines Spotlight on Profession of Hope

odd_boi_out · 03-07-2013, 12:52 AM

I'll be graduating with my MSW in June. Cool to see other social workers here!

Kobi · 03-02-2014, 01:32 AM

To my colleagues, thank you for continuing to be beacons of hope in this troubled world.

ProfPacker · 03-02-2014, 06:45 AM

Wow. How cool. Worked in substance abuse, trauma, Employee Assistance, adoption, inpatient and outpatient psych, directed programs for LGBTQ, program manager, adjunct teaching and now I can say I am paying it forward.

For the past four years in full time social work education. Part of team that created a Newly accredited BSSW program. We are currently getting ready to go into candidacy for NEW program and have been appointed Director of Field Education and will also continue to teach.

Respect and support for all my frontline colleagues. I love social work.

DapperButch · 03-02-2014, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by odd_boi_out

I'll be graduating with my MSW in June. Cool to see other social workers here!

Congrats on graduating! What kind of work did you get into?

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Originally Posted by Kobi

To my colleagues, thank you for continuing to be beacons of hope in this troubled world.

Thanks, Kobi. I appreciate you bumping this thread each year!

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Originally Posted by femmepacker

Wow. How cool. Worked in substance abuse, trauma, Employee Assistance, adoption, inpatient and outpatient psych, directed programs for LGBTQ, program manager, adjunct teaching and now I can say I am paying it forward.

For the past four years in full time social work education. Part of team that created a Newly accredited BSSW program. We are currently getting ready to go into candidacy for NEW program and have been appointed Director of Field Education and will also continue to teach.

Respect and support for all my frontline colleagues. I love social work.

Well, now, someone can't focus on just one thing.... ;-)

Truth be told, I would love to shift to try something else in social work, but now that I am firmly in outpatient therapy (20 years), the drop in salary would just be too great to swallow!

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do and have had an opportunity to do lots of different things in outpatient psych (run various programs for the severely mentally ill), but it would be fun to do something outside of psych (like maybe LGBT programming of some sort).

Damn mortgage!

ProfPacker · 03-02-2014, 10:25 AM

No, I admit, I do have ADHD. Remember, this spans 26 years. But, you don't have time for volunteer work with lbgtq centers for programming, lol. Mentate (?) on that when staring at the walls after a full day of work, lol.

DapperButch · 03-02-2014, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by femmepacker

No, I admit, I do have ADHD. Remember, this spans 26 years. But, you don't have time for volunteer work with lbgtq centers for programming, lol. Mentate (?) on that when staring at the walls after a full day of work, lol.

Yes. Exactly. Sometimes I think that if I was less of an "active" therapist and instead just nodded every once in a while, I would still have at least a tiny bit of mental energy by the end of the day.

I could work 12 hour days running programs and not have the brain fried. Give me 8 clients in a day and I can't do much by stare at the walls at the end! You have to like hype yourself up to stay mentally sharp for that long. Hard to explain, but indeed draining.

I know I can't keep up this pace forever....but what the boss wants....you know how it goes. Quotas!

Kobi · 03-03-2014, 01:47 PM

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