Argumentative Essay On Social Workers

“Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives.” (BLS) This broad statement can describe an immense amount of jobs and careers but usually social work is considered people specially hired by a department of human services or even hospitals. Their job can be to help clients with community resources such as food stamps, childcare, and healthcare; some also investigate child abuse and neglect. (BLS) Although social workers perform a great service to the communities they live in, many are underpaid and struggle to get by in their own lives. Social worker salaries are inadequate because of the immense number of duties that they perform while on the job; the ignorance of those who assume government workers are overpaid …show more content…
Those workers with master’s degrees deserve the raises that come with those positions but those who have devoted their lives to the community they are in also deserve those higher raises and pay scales because sometime experience can be better than just education. Those who have achieved their bachelor 's degrees may not be hired on with a salary that is enough to pay back the student loans they have acquired. These workers are there to help their community and the people they serve, but may not even be able to serve themselves. Those with master 's degrees may be in even more of a financial hardship because a high educational achievement like that traditionally costs more money than just a bachelor 's. Also, these degrees are more often very field specific, spending tens of thousands of dollars on a degree for a passion is a lifelong commitment and in order to use their degree they must be in social work, so it can sometimes seem like a difficult decision if they are considering leaving social work if the pay is not good enough; waste a degree or live a low standard of living that could be improved by changing …show more content…
They may have to encounter clients who are rude, disorderly, or even mentally handicapped. They must be able to quickly and efficiently handle situations and deal with confrontation appropriately so that no further conflict arises. Too often the citizens who unfortunately live in poverty are immediately judged by appearance or a preconceived idea that they are burdens to society or that they may be doing drugs. These assumptions that many Americans hold cannot be shown in social work, they must remain without judgment and attempt to help these people in