Okay so,
I just finished my masters in social work this past august. I have managed to land a job as an intake consultant at a mental health hospital and get paid pretty nicely there - we assess patients, diagnose, make treatment recommendations and make sure we get them authorized through their insurance companies. I really enjoy the job.
However, a week into this job I accepted another position as a therapist with a local agency that helps kids. I took the position because I knew I got into the field to become a therapist. Now I was under the impression that I would be providing therapy to adolescents in schools. And that was it.
I have just started this job this past week and have kept the job at the mental health hospital for extra money. However, at this new job I found out there are numerous kids on my case load who are 6 -11 (not exactly my desired population) and I will have to make home visits when kids are out of school or when they don't show up.... this makes me feel very uneasy.
My question to all of you - I know it's only been a little while that I've had this new therapist job, but something in my gut is telling me to just not do it. I don't particularly want to work with kids and I damn sure don't want to go to their homes. I just want to do out patient or residential therapy to adolescents/adults. People who can voice their problems. Would it look terrible if I quit so early on? Would it hinder my chances at landing a future job as a therapist? I know I am not that marketable since I just finished school, but how unmarketable would I be I left a job after only a couple weeks? I don't want to miss out on an opportunity to learn to utilize these therapeutic techniques that have been taught to be via school books for long, but I also don't want to be uncomfortable every day at work.
I just finished my masters in social work this past august. I have managed to land a job as an intake consultant at a mental health hospital and get paid pretty nicely there - we assess patients, diagnose, make treatment recommendations and make sure we get them authorized through their insurance companies. I really enjoy the job.
However, a week into this job I accepted another position as a therapist with a local agency that helps kids. I took the position because I knew I got into the field to become a therapist. Now I was under the impression that I would be providing therapy to adolescents in schools. And that was it.
I have just started this job this past week and have kept the job at the mental health hospital for extra money. However, at this new job I found out there are numerous kids on my case load who are 6 -11 (not exactly my desired population) and I will have to make home visits when kids are out of school or when they don't show up.... this makes me feel very uneasy.
My question to all of you - I know it's only been a little while that I've had this new therapist job, but something in my gut is telling me to just not do it. I don't particularly want to work with kids and I damn sure don't want to go to their homes. I just want to do out patient or residential therapy to adolescents/adults. People who can voice their problems. Would it look terrible if I quit so early on? Would it hinder my chances at landing a future job as a therapist? I know I am not that marketable since I just finished school, but how unmarketable would I be I left a job after only a couple weeks? I don't want to miss out on an opportunity to learn to utilize these therapeutic techniques that have been taught to be via school books for long, but I also don't want to be uncomfortable every day at work.
