Social Worker

Duties and Responsibilities: A social worker helps people cope and solve with everyday problems in their lives. They also identify people, who need help, evaluate services to see how effective they really are, respond to crisis such as child abuse, help clients work with the government agencies to apply for benefits such as Medicare, research and refer clients to community resources such as food stamps, child care, and health care.

Salary: $ 34,950 - $54,590

Education: In order to become a social worker you must have a Bachelor’s degree but if you want to be a clinical social worker you must have a master’s degree and two years of post-master experience in supervised clinical setting.  You may take courses on anything but sociology; physiology, economics, and political science are recommended.

Reflection: I would like to become a social worker because I want to help my community and people who need help. They pay well in this job and I want to help people when I’m older.