personal statement for social worker

[Guest]

please help me to write a personal statement why i want to be a social
worker.The statement should be of 1000 words

 

[Guest]

I want to be a social worker because I don't want to have to go through alot
of college to get a real education. I would rather be an under qualified,
uneducated person that has the authority to ruin peoples lives based on a
State or County appointed title.

 

[Guest]

OK, that was cold, yet relatively accurate. But in all honesty, this is not
the appropriate forum for such a query.
ZILLA

 

[Jeff Stephenson]

OK, that was cold, yet relatively accurate. But in all honesty, this is not
the appropriate forum for such a query.
ZILLA

Actually, it's nowhere near accurate (my wife was a social worker until she
got out of the public sector because of the stress). Just FYI, to be a
social worker in most state you need to have attended college and received
at *least* a bachelor's degree.

A more accurate one might be "I want to be a social worker to get paid very
little to try and help people in the way-too-large caseload I'll be
assigned, and to have everybody freak out on me the moment something goes
wrong with one of the cases that I simply didn't have time to properly
track."

 

[Guest]

Touché.
Like emergency personnel, teachers, and farmers. They get too little money,
too much work, and hardly any respect. Shame really.
ZILLA

 

[Brian Tillman]

Actually, it's nowhere near accurate (my wife was a social worker
until she got out of the public sector because of the stress). Just
FYI, to be a social worker in most state you need to have attended
college and received at *least* a bachelor's degree.

And in most places, to get a job you need a Master's degree (MSW)

A more accurate one might be "I want to be a social worker to get
paid very little to try and help people in the way-too-large caseload
I'll be assigned, and to have everybody freak out on me the moment
something goes wrong with one of the cases that I simply didn't have
time to properly track."

And blame you for it when they're done.

 

[Jeff Stephenson]

And blame you for it when they're done.

Yeah, and the typical response to any breakdown is to require even more
paperwork, further reducing the amount of time available to spend actually
doing something useful. But without reducing the caseload...