Major in Social Work?

kitty56
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:14:32 +0000

For my daughter, it turns out to be her calling. It was not at all what we envisioned she would want nor what we thought she would end up doing, for a variety of reasons. She graduated magna cum laude double major with an honors program. Maybe partly because it was a Jesuit school, it gave her a true desire to help those who can’t always help themselves. She has tried several types of jobs and the one to which she returned is with our local ARC. That included leaving a job as a social worker making double what she makes at the ARC.

I have no say in what she chooses to do for a living. If this is where she is happy and fulfilled, who am I to say otherwise. She loves helping her residents live as normal a life as possible. She especially loves taking them out into the community.

She is fairly frugal, so the lower salary is not a deterrent for her. She may never be wealthy financially, but she would say she is wealthy in many other ways.