So I am fast learning that today a Bachelor's degree is not enough to get a good job.
I don't want to be stuck in some dead-end job, limited because of my lack of education (that's right folks a degree is seen as insufficient education).
I have a Bed Teaching but I don't want to be just a teacher. I want to be Torey Hayden. I want to help the kids that noone else wants. Children who have developmental, behavioural or mental health problems. If I could do it all over again I think I would have gotten a degree in Psychology so I could become a Clinical Psychologist. But now I worry that ship has sailed.
In a perfect world here is what I would like to do:
• Hospital-based and community-based mental health programmes for children, adolescents and adults
• Corrections (Psychological Service) (e.g. working with youth offenders , or in specialist units such as the Youth Offenders Unit)
• The Child, Youth and Family (Specialist) Service (e.g. working with families & assisting social workers by providing assessments and treatment)
• Group Special Education (e.g. assessing and intervening with children and young people whose behaviour is considered serious in school/family)
• Private practice (e.g. work with clients who self refer and those referred by other individuals and agencies)
So here I am in Ottawa not sure where I should be heading or what I should be doing. I know I don't want to be a nanny for the rest of my life. I'm having a hard enough time with my new job. I want to help children, I want to make a difference (it's cliche but true).
So... what am I going to do?
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