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My Dream is to be a Social Worker
All my life I've wanted to help people and for the past year or two I have decided that the perfect profession for me would to be a Social Worker. Next year I get to take a journey to HighSchool and I was wondering if you have any ideas of what classes would help to acheive my dream?Also... Would knowing a second language help? I get A's and B's and I'm a goody good girl thats never gotton a detention and of course I have never got in trouble with the police because after research I understand that they do background checks. Please would you respond with ideas that would help me later in life. Also, how long do you have to go to collage if you want to be a "Social worker" I am realy intrested in Child, family, and school social workers. Though a lot of kids dont realy appreait people like this I belive they do help alot. I would love to work for a company. My dream all my life has been to have a email adress so people could email me and i could help them with there problems. Now i have a dream helping people in such a way and I know I can achieve this. I know I'm only in 8th grade but I know this is the job for me
Sincerly,
Meg
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That's great to know someone who'se passionate about a dream job such as this. Well you could take some phycology classes, socialology classes, there's also observing the behaiviar patterns at locol highschools. It's amazing what you can observe in like a few weeks on teens and kids. This one trick i used is watching the discovery channel, the animals on the show reflexs the animals we are today. I guess the classes you'd take would be a lot that have to do with the mind and social behaivor. It would be nice to have someone to talk to, i mean, i've been through some counseling but it never seemed to help, they just seem to give up, hey how about testing youre abilities on me, im one tough case to crack ^^ anyway e-mail me whenever
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To be a social worker you'll need a B.A. in social work, although it's not uncommon to move on and get a Master's degree as well. A B.A. takes four years, and a Master's takes two more years (or more, in some cases).
Knowing a second language certainly couldn't hurt, and it would definitely help - as long as it's a language spoken by some of your prospective clients.
Good luck!
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In highschool, you may have to wait a year or two to take some of the better classes, but if they are given, definately take Pyscology and Sociology. I think a second language would also be helpful, and creating an advice column would help if you havent already! *hint hint!*;) A lot of volunteer work, and after school clubs would benefit you too for when you apply to oclleges.
best of luck too ya hun!
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