Is this a good job offer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP: If you do not want to change diapers, then remain unemployed until you find a job that satisfies your demands.

SLPs don’t change diapers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the parent of a child (now teen) who started speech at 1.5. He attended a school-based program at 2 so naturally the staff (SLPs and grad students) changed diapers if needed. Look for a job with an older age group if this is a deal-breaker or use this job as a stepping stone to something better. $40 an hour might not seem like a high salary today but you are clearly just starting out. Some fields pay less than others so you can’t compare your salary to anybody else’s but a recent grad SLP. The SLPs we had in private practice made much more than those in schools/facilities but you have to start somewhere.

OP here. There is no way a graduate clinician was changing your kid's diaper. Sorry, no. That wasn't happening because graduate clinicians are not getting paid and that is not what we are there to do. We are there to learn during our clinical placements. I've checked with several other SLPs regarding my dilemma while trying to decide on this job. My graduate school supervisor said in her 35 years in early intervention (birth to three), she has never once been asked to change a diaper. The paras do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: If you do not want to change diapers, then remain unemployed until you find a job that satisfies your demands.

SLPs don’t change diapers.

OP again. I've been offered a better paying position, but it won't begin until August.

This job would start Wednesday and I'd work until June 15th with a summer break... so I'd earn around 12k for that time but they pay out on a teacher's schedule so it would only equate to around $2400 a month BEFORE taxes. But I'd be getting other paychecks while not technically having to go in. So... I don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP: If you do not want to change diapers, then remain unemployed until you find a job that satisfies your demands.

SLPs don’t change diapers.

OP again. I've been offered a better paying position, but it won't begin until August.

This job would start Wednesday and I'd work until June 15th with a summer break... so I'd earn around 12k for that time but they pay out on a teacher's schedule so it would only equate to around $2400 a month BEFORE taxes. But I'd be getting other paychecks while not technically having to go in. So... I don't know.

This is your first professional job, right?

I’ve been in the professional workforce for 20 years. My first job had a lot of undesirable tasks that I thought were beneath me. In fact, my current (senior-level) job has tasks that I don’t really want to do.

I know a few people who held out for the “ideal” job. That job never came. But without entry-level experience, they didn’t just age into the management jobs like they expected. So suddenly it was ten years later, and they couldn’t get a 10-year experience level job, but they also weren’t getting called for entry-level jobs because they had nothing really to show for 10 years between college and present day.

I’m not saying you need to take this job. But there comes a time when you need to take a job on your field and start building experience. It probably won’t be the perfect job, but it gets the ball rolling, and you can keep looking for the job you want.

Good luck!