[2ndDivisionVet]

Being a career counselor by trade, I tend to disagree. Plus, there’s hardly any money in social work, but the classes are full and there’s a waiting list. Why is that?

[Durus]

Being in corporate IT for near 30 years, most of which was in high tech firms with a lot of scientists and engineers, my direct experience guides my opinion. Have you ever seen a technical job posting that was so incredibly granular that you wondered how many people could really meet all of the requirement? That is done so companies can say "We looked really hard but couldn't find an American with all of this, let us hire a foreign worker at a lot less money", all the time of course they had a foreign worker in mind and wrote the job description to match their education and experience exactly. Then, because I have direct experience with this, they hire the people with this supposed massive expertise, and you have to train them in the most basic of tasks that they couldn't possibly have not acquired had they the actually diplomas/certificates/experience that they claimed to have had. It's a scam, and most people in the industry know it and have been burned by it.

People go into "social work" because it's an easy course load, it's very "PC" therefore has high social value, and it's a government job. No government job can ever be said to have "hardly any money in it".

[JimRed]

Plus, there’s hardly any money in social work, but the classes are full and there’s a waiting list. Why is that?

Maybe because there's no accountability? if the "client" stays the same or gets worse, it's not YOUR fault; "those people" just have to be taken care of 'cause they can't do for themselves.

[cdcdawg]

“...but the classes are full and there’s a waiting list. Why is that?”

Women are going to college in record numbers. They are not going into science and engineering fields. Their numbers in those fields have remained flat for two decades, but their overall numbers have increased dramatically. That’s why.