i wish i never went to school for SW
i, like so many social workers, went to school because of my own lived experience. i thought i was uNiQuElY qUaLiFiEd to help people, because of my traumas and understanding of how important help is. now my career feels tied to my traumas and i hate it.
i graduated in 2022, am approaching the end of a maternity leave and i would rather rip my eyes out than go back to working with a vulnerable sector. it’s exhausting and so much responsibility, and little to no success stores. one of the last clients i was working before my leave, told me in the last session that he’d been lying to me the entire time we were working together.
i daydream of having a boring, no risk job like
working at a car dealership or something. but i feel stuck in SW. if i read this when i was in school my reaction would have been “you sound like a terrible SW, you shouldn’t see clients” - burn out is real in this thankless job. i’m already a mother of 2 and i don’t want to take care of people at work as well.