Social Work can come off as a very tricky subject and or interest to study in college. If you are very into helping people and in a way trying to help make the “world” an all around better place, don’t mind how much money you are really making, how tight it may be for a while to get by, but really have that devotion to help, then Social Work is the perfect career to be focused in on and to study. Yes, it may get very stressful at times, require the above normal amount of school to even get into a good field of the work(which include you to have a bachelor and master degrees), take years 
before you really even go anywhere with the career, but as long as you are devoted to make change, and are very patient in waiting, you will be just fine.
Choosing the career in social work can at times be very difficult. Reasons being, you are not always going to come out satisfied with the results of a “patient”, the outcome of a case, or in general always be making the right judgments/decisions. As an article in the Washington Informer said, ” They(social workers) daily bear the responsibility of making tough decisions that place them in unpopular positions with both the families and the systems they serve. Yet, many workers go about their responsibilites and protect many vulnerable and at risk children. Their actions on behalf of the families and communites usually go unnoticed by the public. But, when a tragedy occurs they are the first to be blamed.” And as mentioned in my esscence blog, for these workers it is crucial to their lives to know when to let things go and to leave it at the job, instead of bringing it home and letting it affect their lives. Their are so many different aspects that a social worker has to deal with in deciding whether to become one or not. Job wages are a huge deal to almost every person within the United states now especially with the prices of just living such as:
- Owning a car
- Owning a house
- Buying Groceries
- Having a family
On http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm it says,”Median annual earnings 
of child, family, and school social workers were $37,480 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $29,590 and $49,060. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $24,480, and the top 10 percent earned more than $62,530.” This here is a perfectly clear example of how life might not come as smoothly as it may for some other professions. One of the most obvious questions that is out their with this work is looking at where you would start, that’s even if you have your masters. So where you would start and slowly work your way up, because the top ten percent are those who have stayed in the field for about twenty years or so. But as you look at Social Workers now and those who are studying to become one, do you think they are really looking at how much money they are going to make in the future, how much school they are going to have to put into it, and how long it will possibly even take them to get to the sufficient paying jobs? Or do you think they are more focused on helping the people around them?
Citations:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm
The Washington Informer: Feb. 14-20 2008, Vol. 44 pg. 47 (the author was unknown)
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g deeply impacted. Simon Vevers, author of Piecing the abuse Jigsaw together, reports “Emotional abuse of children is difficult to discern but there are signs that should alert professionals.” These children depending on their age and of the harshness of the situation end up having serious issues later down the road whether parents or people around them realize it or not, they are suffering. And those who are suffering may end up suffering in ways that most people may not think. Eric Wharton, a Social Worker from the childcare services in Alaska said,” the most unnoticed impact on a childs life as they grow up appears when a relationship forms with a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”, it is then that the child within starts to feel it, and why this is, really has not clearly been firgured out.” Now if you where to look at social work with children across the sea’s you would find a much different occurence of issues, although the divorce can still be one, it is the little of their problem. Children across the sea’s are mainly suffering due to the fact of malnutrition, and in general not being cared for or raised properly. This issue is especially noticed within Africa. Although there are many people who try to help this problem it just seems to be a growing 
have an impact, and In all honesty no matter how traumatic the case is, it is always going to leave the imprint on the Social Worker and on their Career. A Social worker forms a bond with the person of whom they are trying to help, and no matter who you are in life once a bond has been formed you are never going to forget that person you have made that connection with. In most cases the Social Worker can see a littler deeper than what is just sitting on the surface of the person of whom they are assisting, they begin seeing inside of them and who they truly are. This is where it then becomes difficult, that once your work has been done for the day and you return home, you are expected to leave the cases alone, to ignore them and to move one with your OWN life. 
