Essay On Social Work As A Career

The “Fit” of Social Work as Profession for You “Marissa, what do you want to be when you grow up?” the question many people ask throughout my life and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one who was asked this. My answer wasn’t social work, I didn’t even know what a social worker was until I was in middle school when someone described them as “kid’s snatchers”. I never bothered to look into it, I was too busy listening to my friend telling me about how a kid got taken away from their parents. When I was growing, I wanted to go to be a forensic investigator. I blame CSI and Law and Order for this because that’s how I got ‘inspired’ to go out and catch all the bad guys and find out who killed that person and why. I was always intrigued to mysteries and solving puzzles. My interest was set on it until high school. This is where reality hit and my dreams were crush on being a forensic investigator. First of all, you have to be good at science, biology and you have to pretty much like it because that’s what you’re basically doing for the job. Secondly, most of the college’s or universities around me …show more content…
I decided to start taking the classes which lead me into Introductory to Social Work. I will honest say, this class has explained and help me understand how many options I have with this career and actually help me find what I want to do which is to become a correctional social worker. Correctional social worker is the most similar to what I wanted to do originally which was working with people who committed a certain crime and being able to find out and help them through their problems. “Social workers try to prevent this from occurring by addressing psychosocial issues and providing education to help offenders rehabilitate and successfully reintegrate into the community.” (What is a Jail Social Worker?,