seeking field placement advice
hi guys i’m having a hard time picking a field placement for next year. i’ve received offers from two places. a) is a school-based mental health program about a 30 minutes away from my school. this is the place that is closest to what i want to do with my career and what i am the most interested in and passionate about. i’m very passionate about mental health and i might to work in a school in the future so i think this is the one i want to do. b) is a family services program about 40 minutes away from my school. i am somewhat interested in this and i have done similar work to this in an internship last summer so i feel like i could do good at it.
the only issue is that i need to get 450 hours by the end of the year and im worried about that with the school placement. this amounts to about 16 hours a week. it would only be tuesdays and thursdays, and it would only be 6 hours a day, so 12 hours a week. it also doesn’t start until the end of september so i would get a late start. since it’s at a school and i live in a cold and snowy area, i would also have to worry about losing hours to snow days. the hours would also be restricted to school hours, so there isn’t much flexibility.
the family services place is a lot more flexible with the days i can come in and the hours i work. they have morning, afternoon, and evening hours. i could also go in any day of the week if i needed to. if i did have to lose a day due to snow days, i could make the hours up another day very easily.
which one should i choose?