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  • #1

    I've applied out

    A bit of background....I'm about finished with my associate's degree in chemical dependency counseling. I just have the internship I'm currently working and one more internship to complete next quarter.

    The treatment center I'm interning at this quarter has opened two full time drug and alcohol counselor positions! I do not have near the experience they are looking for, but I was advised to send my resume in anyway. So, I did.

    I'm nervous though. If I get it, my lack of experience will mean that I will be low on the pay scale. Couselors make shit. Really. I knew getting into this field that I can't be in it for the money. In order for anyone to make money in the human services field, you have to have a masters. (Which I've applied to University of Nebraska to start working towards that master's -but I don't have it yet)

    So, I'm excited yet very apprehensive. If I get it, I am sure I'll be taking a major pay cut.

    We shall see.
    "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead
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    Yeah but it'll be life experiance that will help (with your masters, of course) get a higher paying position.

    Good luck!
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      Quoth Evil Queen View Post
      Yeah but it'll be life experiance that will help (with your masters, of course) get a higher paying position.

      Good luck!
      For some reason I read that as "higher paying problem" which, considering how many SC's there are out there, could be correct.
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      • #4
        Yeah, but the OP gets to yell at these people and get paid for it!

        I think...
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        • #5
          Quoth Evil Queen View Post
          Yeah, but the OP gets to yell at these people and get paid for it!

          I think...
          No. No. I don't get to yell at them. Unless of course, yelling serves some therapeutic function.

          I received an education in counseling theories, helping skills, interpersonal communication, case management, treatment planning and assessing, and crisis intervention as it pertains to counseling people who are seeking treatment for substance abuse.

          Sometimes yelling can be what the person needs, but is not something I get to do all the time. Just this past week, I experienced a situation where two counselors did "yell" at a client and it was a most uncomfortable situation. It made my eyes well up with tears.
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          • #6
            But.. yelling is therapeutic.... for you.
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            • #7
              Good luck!! I was hired as a substance abuse counselor in April with very little experience and was feeling the way you were. I find a lot of it is common sense, and a lot of it is just listening to them and not judging them.

              I work in a very low income urban area so I hear a lot of horror stories, and deal with a lot of people who were prostitutes and homeless, etc. etc.

              So if you have any questions or just someone to vent with my private messages are open!

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              • #8
                Yes you will take a pay cut but you will be doing something you want to do.

                You will be helping people who really need it.

                Being able to do what you want to do would be really nice!


                Good Luck!! *Cheering for you*
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                • #9
                  Quoth Evil Queen View Post
                  But.. yelling is therapeutic.... for you.
                  I suppose. Sometimes. But not if I am feeling better at the cost of others.
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