Licensure!

[judecorp]

I definitely have the 3500 hours of post-MSW work experience and the 100 hours of supervision by an independently-licensed clinician. Now all I need to do is get my current supervisor to sign off on the hours I've worked at my current job (I really /should/ have at least 26 weeks there by now) and then I should be set to send paperwork for Board approval.

I don't know how I'm going to bring it up to him, though, because he's going to freak. He's always (in his own way) discouraging me from getting independent licensure, how I don't have to bother tracking down old supervisors and should just do my 3500 hours at my current job. I'm pretty sure he knows that once I get my LICSW I'll probably leave for something else, since it's doubtful my job will be able to give me a raise or make me a supervisor, and I'll be too highly licensed to stick with what I'm getting paid.

Should be interesting.

Comments

[shadist.livejournal.com]

Good luck

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We'll see. I still have to take the huge licensing exam after I get all my documents approved. It's a long process.

[iansha.livejournal.com]

Shoot. If /I/ can pass the Clinical exam... so can you! :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You're a smarty!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Employers should not reasonably expect that an individual will stay there forever.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I agree. But I sure haven't been there very long.

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

"He's always (in his own way) discouraging me from getting independent licensure, how I don't have to bother tracking down old supervisors and should just do my 3500 hours at my current job."

You still have the envelope from Vicki, yes?
How much would it help them to have you for a few more months? Which they probably will anyway, because you're not going to grab the first job that comes along. And some places take a while.
You have my permission to say "Look at my friend Jeff, he got his LISW in January and he's STILL at a job that pays him fuck-all."

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Not only do I still have the envelope from Vicki with the letter for the State of Ohio, I also (last fall) contacted Vicki and got her to re-do my letter for Massachusetts, because I'm all slick like that. I also have the supervision letter from my last job in Ohio. With both of those jobs, I have 74 of the 100 supervision hours I need. :)

Look at my friend Jeff, he got his LISW in January and he's STILL at a job that pays him fuck-all.

This is priceless. Both literally and figuratively. HA! (And yes, I'm sure they'll still be keeping me around, but I think they really want people to stay forever and ever without ever getting a raise.)

[siercia]

but I think they really want people to stay forever and ever without ever getting a raise.

Every job wants that. It doesn't make it a realistic desire =).

And you know, if you're overqualified, then it's not unreasonable to expect to be paid an equitable wage or to plan to move on. IF he wigs, that's his thing. It's not like he really thinks you're that thrilled with the job anyway.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

He thinks I'm horribly depressed. I'm still not sure I know why. He's a bizarro man.

[vorpalbla.livejournal.com]

Check it: I had to raise holy hell just to get the pay raise that I was supposedly entitled to after getting my LISW. And it was 3%.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember. That's /horrible/! Although here in MA, it seems like agencies can't give employee raises unless the government changes the budget to allow for raises or something like that. So no one gets raises. Like, ever.

I agree

[thelastbard.livejournal.com]

He can't expect you to stay there forever -- surely he must see that you are committed to your work, and want to move up as ambitious as you are. Besides - if he can't see that, then he's an even worse personell manager than you've let on. Besides, it sounds like the job you have is entry-level, so he must expect turnover.

If he doesn't like it, screw him. All the better for you to get all that crazy hoop-jumping done -- to be rid of a middling supervisor.

YOU STINK.

Re: I agree

[thelastbard.livejournal.com]

BTW, what is your work's policy on bloggs? :)

Re: I agree

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

1. YOU stink.

2. I don't use the internet from work. Mainly because I don't have a computer in my office. Actually, I barely have an office, since all I do is drive around and do home visits. Unless I get a computer in my car, blogging is right out.

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

good luck with that! i hope things go smoothly

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hunny!

[iansha.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Does sound like his motives are whacked.

YAY LICENSURE!
(my stuff is in front of the board on 4/11, wish me luck that all my stuff transfers, forms are correct, etc etc) :)

I say you go for it. It is really the BEST thing for YOUR career. He's right though... once you've got it, your marketability shoots through the roof.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I am keeping my fingers crossed for you on 4/11!

OT:

[grrlpower.livejournal.com]

did you ever look into getting your tonsils taken out? I know you have lots of tonsil issues, as do I. Right now my throat is approximately this size: o - I've thought about getting them removed, but don't know that it's that common anymore, particularly in adults.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I actually saw an ENT specialist here in January (but by the time I got the appointment, my tonsil wasn't swollen anymore!) who said he would have no problem doing a tonsillectomy if I wanted one. But thankfully (*knock on wood*) I haven't had a tonsil problem since (so I'm back to stalling).

Last time I asked my PCP about it, she said that tonsillectomies in adults are becoming slightly more "fashionable" again, so there are more techy ways of doing it that should hopefully be less painful and dangerous for adults.

Look into it.