Major in Social Work?

holliesue
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:21:10 +0000

my husband is a social worker. It is an admirable profession, BUT very, very low pay and lots of stress (lets just say that my husband would be happy to make what a starting teacher in NYS makes…this after 10 years in the professsion)! The only reason it works for him is that he is married to a higher paid lawyer . His single colleagues really struggle to make ends meet. If you can get a job in the public sector (state, county) the pay and benefits will be somewhat better, but with current cuts in public jobs, that will be more difficult.