Thursday, April 7, 2016

Military social work.

Remember when I had a massive rant on the pay of social workers compared to the debt when acquiring a MSW? Well, I still stand by that massive rant. I also have found out that if you're medically cleared to enter the military to become a military social worker, life is pretty good in terms of pay, job stability and respect. See below.

Army 73A (Social Worker)


Navy Social Worker

Air Force Social Worker

According to one Navy recruiter, a Navy social worker pay starts at around 75K and can lead up to 100K in ones third active year. I do not doubt this range because I have heard from other civilian social workers that VA social workers make the most when compared to other social work fields (child services, health care, mental) in the civilian employment. Depending on where you're placed and how wealthy the school is, school social work tends to pay a little better than a social worker working with child protection services or welfare queens.

In many cases it appears that military social work, though the program one graduates from must be CSWE accredited, is somewhat independent of the usual social work politics of "Ally" to LGBT and diversity/inclusion awareness. After all, you're dealing with people suffering from PTSD, stress, marital issues and social alienation (you know, real shit) due to wartime deployment, not some female LGBT sociology/social work student who's quite butch, or some feminist.

Now, to analyze each of the videos. I think each woman shown in the video is attractive. I won't rank them, but they're attractive to me. I think the Air Force video was the best - very sleek when viewed on the Air Force site. Then comes the  Navy video where the woman is a very coherent speaker; definitely a person with intellectual capabilities. The Army video is better than most job recruitment videos put out by the Army, but it still has the trademark corniness that the Army videos are known for -- from the outdated graphics, staged hall walks, the Captain Obvious language, the talking and the rapid sequence of pictures to the synchronized head turn. Despite all that, it's an improvement and that's saying something.


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