Posted: 4/7/2009 9:13:34 PM EDT
Anyone here have any experience, or are involved in the field care to share how they like it along with salary if feasible? Around my neck of the woods they make 60-80 k s year and thats all I know. 
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I interned at a VA mental health center in college. A guy with a Bachelor's in Social Work was making right around 60K per year.
The guy who ran the place had a Master's in Social Work and was making just under 100K per year. Government pays really well in the social work field. |
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You wouldn't believe the number of people I meet that have a Masters in Social Work, ten years experience, and earn less than a kid fresh out of college with a bachelors in Business. You will work with the dregs of society, many of which only come to see you because their government check is contingent on it. You will toil in a bureaucracy bent on sustaining itself, not helping anyone. Pretty much a vampire on your soul.
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You wouldn't believe the number of people I meet that have a Masters in Social Work, ten years experience, and earn less than a kid fresh out of college with a bachelors in Business. You will work with the dregs of society, many of which only come to see you because their government check is contingent on it. You will toil in a bureaucracy bent on sustaining itself, not helping anyone. Pretty much a vampire on your soul. Semper Fi This |
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You wouldn't believe the number of people I meet that have a Masters in Social Work, ten years experience, and earn less than a kid fresh out of college with a bachelors in Business. You will work with the dregs of society, many of which only come to see you because their government check is contingent on it. You will toil in a bureaucracy bent on sustaining itself, not helping anyone. Pretty much a vampire on your soul. Semper Fi Yup....my BIL is a gay social worker in Boston, and it has pretty much become his "labor of love", even with a doctorate. I laugh everytime my MIL showers him with superlatives. |
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I interned at a VA mental health center in college. A guy with a Bachelor's in Social Work was making right around 60K per year. The guy who ran the place had a Master's in Social Work and was making just under 100K per year. Government pays really well in the social work field. No offense but if you go to USAJOBS, it shows that Masters level social workers for VA are paid at the GS-11 level (not 60k per year) and that supervisors are GS-12's, which are around 60 to 70k. So BSW's making 60k is a bit of an exageration. |
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You wouldn't believe the number of people I meet that have a Masters in Social Work, ten years experience, and earn less than a kid fresh out of college with a bachelors in Business. You will work with the dregs of society, many of which only come to see you because their government check is contingent on it. You will toil in a bureaucracy bent on sustaining itself, not helping anyone. Pretty much a vampire on your soul. Semper Fi This LETS REPEAT THIS ONE AGAIN. |