Do you remember when they were going to replace all of the cops in big cities with trained Social Workers?
I was talking with a gentleman in his late-twenties. He informed me that none of the people he knew who had graduated with degrees in Social Work were still employed in that field. "Burn-out" is the reason he gave.
A quick search on-line suggests that the primary reasons for Social Worker burn-out are
- Excessive paperwork (Always an issue when your pay originates from insurance companies or the government)
- Low pay
- Uncompensated hours of work
- Lack of tangible results in clients (Expectations minus reality)
- Case load
- Lack of recognition from their supervisor
Imagine dropping $120k to get your Master's of Social Work and losing 16 months of income to go to school full-time and then bailing out after 3 year.
I fiddled around but could not find a data-base where I could get statistics of burn-out rates by occupation or profession. It would be interesting to compare.
Where are they going to get all of those Social Workers?
Maybe better off without them? Why fertilize the weeds.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they teach for so long in school anyway? The rule of life is: Do what you ought to do, not what you want to do.
DeleteMy son-in law, now in his sixties, bought, built, and eventually sold his successful tree care business. He had trouble getting through high school. He had some wonderful stories about his climbers and groundsmen, and always described his business as “Tree service & adult daycare.”
Case studies that show glorious social workers touching lives and totally changing their lives. And filling out forms. And WOKE BS.
Deletehttps://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/lara/bpl/Folder22/Social_Work.pdf?rev=4217b09721d74f8a9638155499cfa0ba#:~:text=Graduate%20with%20a%20master's%20degree,Social%20Work%20Education%20(CSWE).&text=Complete%20at%20least%204%2C000%20hours,hold%20a%20Limited%20LMSW%20License.
ReplyDeleteOK, assuming the link works:
The jobs aren't actually filled by those people. If you keep scrolling you'll find:
"ELIGIBILITY FOR A LIMITED SST REGISTRATION Limited – A license for applicants used to obtain 2,000 hours of supervised social service experience. It can be renewed once.
• Must have completed at least two years of college in any field from a regionally accredited institution."
This license lets you work for 4k hours (with the renewal) and then be a licensed " SOCIAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN (SST)". As far as I understand the jobs are actually filled by 2 years of college/associates SSTs and people that have SSTs and go to night school and get their bachelors before moving up a license class.
This is why the wage is so low, despite most of the SW jobs in theory wanting a Master's, the majority are (I could be wrong, but don't think I am) in practice filled by 2 year degree holders earning money along the way to a bachelor's degree (or just grinding it out without one). I think this is a good thing as long as you avoid the degree trap of the debt fueled Master's. First off, the people are likely connected to reality and more sensible than someone who spent 5 years in undergrad + 2-3 years in a Master's program, they probably came from a background that enables them to withstand the job a lot better and they're looking to WORK vs "save lives" or "improve the poors".
While I have a lot of problems with the system, the people on the line that I've met (not many) have all been hard working salt-of-the-earth people collecting a wage and trying their best to save idiots from themselves. It's sad that aspiring bright young things are told to get saddled with 4-6 extra years of debt when they could start working after 4 semesters and see if they can handle the field.
My eldest granddaughter graduated Cum Laud with a degree in sociology from Clemson University. She now works in a restaurant as a kitchen manager and also has a small home business. She never once used her degree.
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