[HumanSer] Taking time off from work

[Karen Rose]

For what it is worth, I do both career counseling and psychotherapy. In my career counseling practice, I find that, at least here in Northern California, the question of reasons for not having been working often does not even come up. Back in the day, when someone was not working it meant that that person was probably either in jail, riding the freight train, or completely incapacitated. Now however, there are so many reasons for people not being in the workforce for a period of time. One might be caring for children, caring for an elderly family member, off traveling, or one’s company might have gone I. P. Oh. And one might be a millionaire right now. :-) My millennials often talk about something they call for employment. This means being laid off from one company with some kind of severance package and using their time on unemployment insurance to go traveling and having fun. :-) I would not be concerned about your time away from work. Karen

Karen Rose MFT/LPCC www.career-therapy.net

> On Sep 15, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Yiska via HumanSer <humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I hope the list is well. I am looking into getting into the field of social
> work. I have my masters degree. I finished that in May 2017. I have been
> taking the last two years to get to full time at my current call center job
> and having two surgeries that nedicaid won't cover. I looked for a social
> work job for over a year and only got one offer which I had to decline due
> to distance to work. How should I go into interviews because I feel like if
> I say I took time to get insurance get medical procedures done that have
> resolved the issue and tried to make a bad guide dog relationship work that
> I will be viewed as a liability. I have nothing to say otherwise though. I
> tried even for case management jobs and was declined those. Interviews stop
> and end at accomodations so if they ask how should I handle it because
> saying I have these three options for accomodations has got me no where.
> Now it looks bad I haven't got in the field at all. It is my understanding
> msw needs supervision so not even sure how I can volunteer my time. Thanks
> for your suggestions.
> Yiska
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