Help me choose please!!

Advice

Hello! I find myself currently in desperate need of some advice/opinions.
I have a Bachelors in Psychology with an Addiction focus and I graduated winter of last year. Since literally end of high school I thought I knew what I wanted to do as a career (school psychologist). But as I'm applying to grad school, I feel myself hesitant to actually commit to it and doubting that the work will make me happy.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I have done research (both quantitative and qualitative), I enjoy working with children and want to work in a school environment at some point as a mental/emotional/academic support for students, and I want to do activism/politics professionally at some point in my life. Does that sound like social work? What types of jobs could I get with a social work master's and licensure?

The only reasons I really feel hesitant is because I have been fixed on being a school psychologist for so long and I hear that a lot of social work jobs don't pay a living wage. Please tell me about life experience/advice/factors I'm not taking into consideration, I want to be informed about this huge decision I'm about to make!!

Posted Aug 24, 2024, 5:24 PM UTC

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