It's a useful article to people that are interested in becoming a Social worker, or even just something that involve social services. I'm motivated to write it because it's always nice to share what I know about the profession I'm interested into.
It always feels good to help people, but it is sometimes overwhelming to know everyone problems. It possible to have a burn out.
Social workers helps people to get out of their problematic, but most of the time the social worker is just here to let people know about the better choices to get out of their problem. At the end the choice is for the person to make.
The day of a social worker is pretty busy since like a lot of professions they have to check their emails, start an intervention with someone that lives a problem, and try to find multiples solutions so the person can choose what is more adapted to their situation.
They can work in schools, hospitals, homes, offices, community centers, and there's more.
You can become a social worker with or without college all it needs is to have study in the Social Service program.
The salary depends on the studies because, if you study to college and university you'd get more than someone that only went to college. The salary you can have at the top of your career is about $35 per hour as a social worker.
Practice working with people, pass a test to get a license, learn more about (mental health, children and maybe addiction). At the end you never really stop learning.
When someone doesn't want to talk, but you keep pushing the conversation sometimes the person can get aggressive. When the social worker is working in the streets, sometimes they can be in dangerous areas. As a social worker it happens to have burn-out especially since they listen to everyone's problem.
The chances are about 0 because this job needs too many human faculties for example, honesty, good listening and kindness. I feel like it's something that robots can have.
They can retire around the age of 65 years old, and even out of interventions you can have more facilities to talk to people and basically a lot of things that involves social. The regrets that might be as a retired social worker is maybe shame because you couldn't help someone during your career.
At the moment I'm in college, and I'm going to make it to the university because I want to have maximum money to invest in what my family is going to give me when the time is right.