I Want To Be A Social Worker

I didn’t always want to be a Social worker. I did know however, that I would have a job where I would help people. I have a passion for the law so naturally I thought I would explore that interest. I went into my undergrad thinking I was going to be a juvenile attorney. It was not until my internship with Safe Landing Youth Shelter that I realized I was going in the wrong direction. Working at the youth shelter I felt something I have never felt before: fulfillment and satisfaction.
Why do you want to be a social worker seems like an easy answer because I want to help people, but there is so much more that goes into that answer. I want to be a child advocate because I want to be that person speaking up for the child. I want to be able to say what a child is afraid to or does not know how to say. As I said above for much of my life I wanted to become a lawyer. Even though I have never had any personal contact with a social worker, they are not known for coming into people’s lives when everything is going well. I have continually been attracted to helping professions. It was not until college and when I started to volunteer did I fully understand what a social worker did.
Volunteering and working with children is a big part of my life. I have a passion for serving kids and wanting to do more for them. Through
I believe the number one reason I am here is my faith in God. I find immense strength and passion in my faith. I have a passion for kids and it’s that passion that fuel’s the flame of pursing this program. I graduated college prepared for the next step in my life which I thought was law school. I had already applied and taken the LSAT, but those plans crashed and burned. I didn’t get accepted to any of the law schools I applied for. Not knowing what to do next I accepted a job at my old internship. I went into Safe Landing Youth Shelter still wanting to be a lawyer and with a plan to reapply to law