A enjoyable reality about me: I lasted precisely two months as a scientific social employee earlier than I had a psychological breakdown. I spent years getting a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Social Work, and the script says…

A enjoyable reality about me: I lasted precisely two months as a scientific social employee earlier than I had a psychological breakdown.

I spent years getting a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Social Work, and the script says you’re speculated to go straight into particular person scientific observe or remedy. I attempted it. I actually did… For 60 complete days. I used to be too embarrassed/ashamed to even preserve it on my LinkedIn web page.

And then I needed to sit down and face the fact that the normal path simply wasn’t for me.

So, I did what anybody having an early-career existential disaster does. I regarded again at my resume to determine after I was really blissful.

Ironically, my favourite job wasn’t a prestigious internship. It was after I was in faculty working as an Administrative Assistant for a campus variety program (I nonetheless love you UW PEOPLE Program). I cherished the logistics, the group, the occasion planning, and the tangible feeling of constructing a program that helped ship outcomes.

That realization modified all the pieces. I ended taking a look at social work as only a remedy room and began taking a look at it as a blueprint for techniques.

That shift led me straight into larger schooling profession advising, the place I bought to construct inclusive profession frameworks. And inevitably, it led me to the place I’m right now: full-scale, nationwide Program Management, the place I get to make use of my MSW lens to deal with structural fairness, cross-sector partnerships, and big grant portfolios.

It seems I didn’t waste my diploma in any respect. I simply wanted to take these scientific expertise, like deep listening, assessing complicated techniques, and useful resource mobilization, and apply them to operations.

It’s been some time since I’ve posted on right here, so I wished to reintroduce myself with some honesty.

I’m curious, what number of of you might be really doing the precise job you thought you’d be doing if you picked your main?