Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You continue on with your schooling.
After researching and taking the time to see what you would be doing in
graduate school, you realize that it is not all classrooms and books, and
that you will be getting to do the very thing you have been waiting all this
time to do.
Through schooling, you will increase your knowledge with the different
types of patients you will be working with. And you realize that patience
is another skill that perhaps you should continue working on.
This is the real-life decision made by Nicole Gillis-Copping. She's a therapist
with a master's in social work.
Gillis-Copping says you can get work in the mental health field with just
a bachelor's degree. But you'll have more options and more pay if you get
at least a master's degree.
"If someone wants to go and work do the front line work and has a BSW (bachelor
of social work), and that's what they want to do, great, go out and do that,â€
says Gillis-Copping. "It doesn’t always provide the best pay, so it's just
more of a struggle without that advanced education."