The brosie interview
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judecorp1) Why social work?
For the pay. No, really! I enjoy working long hours for this sort of wage. Honestly, I've done some other things in my (short) life, and they just don't feel right. They don't feel like I'm doing enough. I like the idea that something that I'm doing could make even a tiny bit of difference. I like getting my hands dirty. I like being political, but not being a politician. I like watching people empower themselves.
2) Have you ever done something that you would go back and change?
I wouldn't have gone into my first grad program. I have an M.Ed., and to be honest, I will never use it. And it's the only degree I'm paying for. So if I hadn't gone, I would be where I am now, but without a student loan. I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I decided to go to grad school as something to do when I moved to Boston. Bad reason to go to school.
3) If, at 18, every child were encouraged to go somewhere within our country or to another country to do some sort of philanthropic volunteering, where would you go and what would you do?
If I could go to another country, I would go build water supplies or other such hard labor somewhere in the Third World. If I had to stay in the US, I would teach in an inner-city school in NYC.
4) What relaxes you the most?
Music. My emotions are completely malleable with music.
5) What cartoon from your childhood would you revive if you had the opportunity?
It's not a cartoon, but I'd have to say The Muppet Show. No questions or hesitations. I miss that show. It was perfect. I don't know a single person who didn't like The Muppet Show.
For the pay. No, really! I enjoy working long hours for this sort of wage. Honestly, I've done some other things in my (short) life, and they just don't feel right. They don't feel like I'm doing enough. I like the idea that something that I'm doing could make even a tiny bit of difference. I like getting my hands dirty. I like being political, but not being a politician. I like watching people empower themselves.
2) Have you ever done something that you would go back and change?
I wouldn't have gone into my first grad program. I have an M.Ed., and to be honest, I will never use it. And it's the only degree I'm paying for. So if I hadn't gone, I would be where I am now, but without a student loan. I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I decided to go to grad school as something to do when I moved to Boston. Bad reason to go to school.
3) If, at 18, every child were encouraged to go somewhere within our country or to another country to do some sort of philanthropic volunteering, where would you go and what would you do?
If I could go to another country, I would go build water supplies or other such hard labor somewhere in the Third World. If I had to stay in the US, I would teach in an inner-city school in NYC.
4) What relaxes you the most?
Music. My emotions are completely malleable with music.
5) What cartoon from your childhood would you revive if you had the opportunity?
It's not a cartoon, but I'd have to say The Muppet Show. No questions or hesitations. I miss that show. It was perfect. I don't know a single person who didn't like The Muppet Show.
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Date: 2003-06-11 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-11 07:30 pm (UTC)ps -- donnie darko soundtrack rocks
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Date: 2003-06-11 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-11 07:56 pm (UTC)The pay for teachers is actually /significantly/ better than social workers, and they get summers off. BUT, it's just not for me, not in the long-term. When I got my MEd, it was in community education, which is a lot more like social work than standard education.
I would teach for a year or two, as an experience. :)
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Date: 2003-06-11 07:59 pm (UTC)Doh!
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Date: 2003-06-11 08:20 pm (UTC)(I thought it was a Gary Jules mp3 on there. Oops!)
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Date: 2003-06-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Troubled Teens Mock Social Worker's Car
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Date: 2003-06-12 06:03 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2003-06-12 07:58 am (UTC)I'm linking to it in my journal too. Thanks for the laugh!!!
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Date: 2003-06-12 09:48 am (UTC)My car is a lot nicer than some of my coworkers' cars, but I think that's dumb luck. My grandparents helped me pay for my current car (1998 Sentra), and I'm really neat and clean, so the car is in good shape. I'm lucky, though. It could easily be a junker!