[FAQ] What do you wish you knew before going into social work?

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• What do you wish you knew before going into social work?

• Would you still want to go into the field knowing what you know now?

• What would be another field you would have gone into if it wasn't social work?

• Have any of you transferred to a new field? If so, what field?