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I have had my BS for years now. I bs all the time in here.
Though by rights I should already have a BS, since I'm such an expert...
Anyway, I didn't finish college (made a good dent in it, 2+ years). I'm worried about my job with the state going away and as I've mentioned, thought...what is a growth industry?
The IRS and child welfare fields are both growth industries now.
Child Welfare workers start out at $1000 more a month than I'm making now.
But you need a bachelor's for both of those.
At my age (and location) I'm not up for picking up and moving to a university town, nor do I want to. I want to keep this job as long as I can, I love it here.
All I need to qualify as a child welfare worker is a bachelor's, likewise as an IRS agent. I have work history and experience that will make up the diff between a degree from a regular college and an online one, and the one I'm using is accredited.
So far out, I start on April 27.
You think I'm crazy now, wait till you see what I'm like when finals roll around.
AHA!
You don't have to have a master's.
Having a master's will fast track you to employment, of course. But it isn't required to be a child welfare worker:
"Qualifications
REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES FOR SOCIAL WORKER 3:
A Bachelor's degree or higher in social services, human services, behavioral sciences, or an allied field, and one year as a
Social Worker 2 since July 1, 1988;
OR
A Master's degree in social services, human services, behavioral sciences, or an allied field and two years of paid social
service experience equivalent to a Social Worker 2;
OR
Requisition Title: 300 351Q SW2/3 blend CPS 20957
A Bachelor's degree in social services, human services, behavioral sciences, or an allied field, and three years of paid
social service experience performing functions equivalent to a Social Worker 2;
One year of paid social service experience must include assessing risk and safety to children and providing direct
family-centered practice services (strengthening and preserving family units).
NOTE: A two year Master's degree in one of the above fields that included a practicum will be substituted for one year of
paid social service experience.
NOTE: Equivalent social service experience would include the previous classes of Caseworker 3 or higher."
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/pdf/jobs/20957.pdf
This is fun. Yesterday I was fantasizing about building my own mansion.
Today I get to fantasize about going to work in a far off land...
not necessarily Washington...
MIT provides free online materials for a large range of undergraduate classes.
Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare
Their lecture videos would be particularly useful to someone completing a distance-learning program, I would imagine.
But back to the subject of the thread.
Onya Ms. Baba.
Child welfare however can be tough no matter what piece of paper you have on your wall.
We have a Department of Child Protection in the building where I do security.
The crap these workers have to put up with, the stuff they hear and see. Shit!
It breaks my heart just seeing these confused little kids being taken from the idiot, drugged out abusive parents. How the kids still desperately love their parents and don't want to be separated from them.
And then the parents threaten or attack the workers trying to save their kids.
I have the easy part, as security I get to go over and "apply some reason" on the abusers asses if they step too far out of line.
But the social workers do it tough.
Though by rights I should already have a BS, since I'm such an expert...
Anyway, I didn't finish college (made a good dent in it, 2+ years). I'm worried about my job with the state going away and as I've mentioned, thought...what is a growth industry?
The IRS and child welfare fields are both growth industries now.
Child Welfare workers start out at $1000 more a month than I'm making now.
But you need a bachelor's for both of those.
At my age (and location) I'm not up for picking up and moving to a university town, nor do I want to. I want to keep this job as long as I can, I love it here.
All I need to qualify as a child welfare worker is a bachelor's, likewise as an IRS agent. I have work history and experience that will make up the diff between a degree from a regular college and an online one, and the one I'm using is accredited.
So far out, I start on April 27.
You think I'm crazy now, wait till you see what I'm like when finals roll around.