How I got into my current career goes way back to growing up at my Nana’s. She was (wording appropriate for that time) a foster home for handicapped kids. She had several kuds that I remember. Some were deaf, some blind, some both. She had one really special guy named Mikey who had Lowe’s syndrome. He was the best!!
Fast forward many years and I got my bachelor’s degree in human services and my master’s in psychology. I worked for a while at a call center, because I had experience with the medical side of things. But I was not able to get a job in my field because my master’s was too general and didn’t lead to licensure.
Fast forward again and I was at a women’s night at church sitting with a friend and I mentioned that I had gone to school with the speaker, a counselor/ therapist. My friend said, “I didn’t know you were in the field” (psychiatry). I said I wasn’t and told her my story. She decided to introduce me to someone there at church who had launched an agency for working with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I met her, had an interview, took a leap of faith and signed on to become a behavioral counselor. That was three years ago and not only do I love this new career, I believe I was prepared for exactly this time and place
