So let's back track a little bit, when I was in college I did not know what to study. In my first two years of college I remember I was in Bronx Community College. I remember I did not want to attend college but because my mom pushed me so damn much just to prove to the family that one of her kids went, I went. I remember that no field caught my eye I switched field constantly from paralegal, nursing, therapy so eh what the hell liberal arts (because I gotta graduate with some type of knowledge of whatever the fuck that field is). Then when I graduated (for nothing, only for the pell money cus duh we broke out here) I went to Lehman and LAWDT they required for me to choose a damn field (a bish does not like to read books ghatdammit or write 15-30 page essays for a percentage of the grade foh) my GPA was horrible and my counselor told me to choose Social Work because apparently it is an easy field to study (YES IT WAS but the facking program is hard to get in and I got in).
During the last semester of the field I believe my depression spiked, well because of many reasons: employers want a student with experience it does not matter if you have a degree, some employers see you as a threat if you have "a lot of education" according to them, in order to get a better pay you have to be in debt of about $50,000 to $200,000 to get a Master's degree that even though you get it, the job that hires you will pay you approx. $50k to $60k, let's not forget the taxes you would have to pay back, the student loans, health insurance, the cost of living is getting worse by the year, the penalties you would face for not paying your student loan on time, the books that are sitting in your closet collecting dust, the credit cards you have to pay, employers turning you down and the list goes on. Sounds depressing, right? well it is. It gets worse trust me on this one.
Non-profits are always hiring case managers, care coordinators, counselors because everyone quits, the pay is horrid (below market value), the benefits are trash (literally), the case managers are the underdogs because we are typing notes that get billed either to Medicaid (where I work at now, a OMH transitional program) or DFTA (depending if it is a senior center), getting pressure for the notes to be able to bill to fund a company who is most likely a multi-million business yet, the workers remain to have shitty equipment (anywhere you go that is non-profit, non-profits is all I know) old ass computers, screens, no pens, chair old as hell, no signing pad, no agency cellphone, and my favorite compliant that gets under my skin is, every time I think about is when we have to work with one of the worse clients "to better themselves", haha. I've not seen not one client wanting "to better themselves". Who the hell wants to live in the real world anyway? They don't even have to pay rent for years because housing will always be a priorty first. Also, there's a magic word that no employer especially in the non-profit field wants to hear- RAISES, apparently that is the forbidden word to say to management, payroll, supervisors, they'll look at you like you stupid, you grew a third arm on your neck and they will find any excuse to say why you did not get a raise whether it is because your hair is grey, you were on maternity leave or you were not included (WHAT!? LMAO) and yet you're asking for too much.
I have another mouth to feed and rent to pay, so I will definitely positively, be leaving the field first opportunity I get, and once I order my diploma again because I lost the bitch -_-.
P.S. did you know that drop off at the laundry is by weight? 👀
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