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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t let the neighbor get in your head this way.  Speech therapy is really great and needed.  If you don’t want to work in schools, what about child find?  Or at rehab centers with strolls victims?  Have you seen the gabby giffords biopic?  Her speech therapist  made all the difference in her life.[/quote]

Thank you. It's hard not to let it get to me. I feel like such a loser. I thought when getting this degree i would feel accomplished and good about myself, but it's like I feel worse.

I would work at a clinic/private practice but none in my area are hiring. I would also do rehab. None are hiring right now.. .maybe in the future.

Animals are my real passion though. It's hard to see someone else getting to live that dream and all she had to do was a short course. Her husband supports her so I'm not really sure if it's lucrative or enough to live on.[/quote]

You are in no way a loser. You have chosen a FABULOUS career field! You can work full time, part-time, with a private clinic, in a hospital, in public schools, private practice, etc. If you move to the Atlanta area, you won't be able to turn down the jobs fast enough!  :P [/quote]

Thank you :) That makes me feel better. I just imagined graduating would make me feel great and like my life was roses, but I don't feel any different. Sometimes I feel worse. [/quote]

I'm an older DCUM poster (and animal lover!) who's worked with many speech pathologists, OTs, and PTs over the years in the special education field. Will say again that you made an excellent career choice! Maybe you just need to find the right "fit" and age group. There are so many options out there! Best to you![/quote]

Thank you! You are kind and you boosted my spirits today.

I just love animals so much. And learning that she has a job doing that kind of crushed me. I know she may not get paid a lot, but the person that told me this said "Well they are booked solid which is why your neighbor got hired and it costs $70 an hour to take your dog there."

I do enjoy working with kids around kindergarten age...they are so sweet and make me laugh.[/quote]

Couple thoughts:

1. My company bills my clients $130/hour of my time, last I checked.  My salary is less than half that.  So for $70/hour appointments, she’s probably making $25ish/hour.  If she’s only working a couple days a week, even if they’re whole days, she’s almost certainly making less $40K, no benefits, no retirement.  I don’t know much about your field but I’m reasonably sure your earning potential is higher than that.

2. Sometimes it’s good not to have your passion be your job.  When work is hard (and even if you love it, work will sometimes be hard) it’s nice to have something to fall back on and not have work be your entire joy and identity.

3. It sound to me like you’ve been setting up “get SLP degree” as a milestone that will mark the point at which you’ve got your life figured out: your crops will be watered, your skin will be glowing, you’ll be professionally satisfied and financially secure, etc.  and now that you’re there you’re finding that actually no, milestones or no, you still have to keep making decisions you’re not 100% sure of and there’s uncertainty and it sure looks like someone else (or everyone else) has things more figured out than you do.  Quite possibly your neighbour feels this way when she thinks about you getting an in-demand degree and that’s why she doesn’t want to be friendly with you.  I don’t have any real advice for working through this feeling, I just want to point out that you might be feeling similar if you’d done doggie massage training.

4. I hope you get a job working with kindergarteners soon.  Looking for work is super stressful and disheartening so give yourself some grace.[/quote]

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