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Show ABOUT THAT JOB! What It Is What It Pays What It Leads To SI i I I WORK Uj Elizabeth fcniold, r Statc-4 itj i ret Employment sor-loc, sor-loc, Cleveland, . You may know that you want to work with peoplp. but you may not know what fields offer the kind of work ou want to do, or how to k about getting ft position. Till FIELD Social work is work With people. This is a big. unerowded field offering many opportunities worth con.ldrrlng. Trained social workers are needed to deal with the problems of the deiin- luf-nt. dependant and defective classes In Institution! and In communities, as well ns to cover various efforts to educate edu-cate young people and foreigners to become good citizens and to handle family, Individual and community problems arising through crowded living liv-ing conditions in a big city. QUALIFICATIONS Get a good general education to start with. if you were forced to Idave school before you finished high school go back to night school A girl with college training ha. of course, a big advantage, although manv successful social workers without college training hav.j gained their background through reading, studying and mixing with people. Study sociology, psychology, psychol-ogy, statistical method, economics; ask the public librarian to sugg'-st worth-while reading along this line. But above all be sure that you genuinely genu-inely like folks, that you have a kindly human sympathy with them, and never forget that "In uplifting you must get underneath1 now lo riM) SUCH POSITIONS Go first to the free public employment employ-ment service and find out if there are 'any positions open in case nothing offers that you are fitted to fill, get the names of the people to see In various var-ious institutions that employ Inexperienced Inexperi-enced workers, and applv to them, l rg.i nlzatlons like the Red Cross; the (Associated Charities organizations, the Humane Society conduct regular training train-ing classes covering lectures and field work under a trained worker, as well jas training In handling records. In .some cases these organizations charge la fee for the courses; In others the courses are given In connection with a I university. In some cases the new I worker is paid a small salary while training Social Institutions work j so closely together that a careful 'training in one institution gives a pretty Rood knowledge of the whole i field of social service. Case work Is a matter of dealing with all problems of individuals gathering all the facts in the case, pec-ordlng pec-ordlng them. Interpreting them, knowing know-ing how to build a plan to solve thj I problem ami knowing on what social ! forces to rely to carry it through. Experience Ex-perience In case work is the key that opens the way to well-paid social , work. Salaries vary In different Institutions Inexperience, workers sometimes start at $50 or $60 a month while training and executive secretaries with several years' experience frequent h druw $2,-000 $2,-000 to $25000 a year. |