So a lot has happened in the year or so since I’ve last (personally) blogged. Here it is in short form:
- Exited from Murdoch’s Master’s class
- Graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling (Murdoch)
- Declined invitation to attend 3rd (boring) graduation ceremony; received my $14,000 piece of paper in the mail instead
- Got accepted into the Master’s program at Monash University
- Currently collecting university student cards: already have 3 and counting – University of Western Australia; Murdoch University and now Monash University
- Currently working my way (slowly and progressively) through the Master’s in Counselling Course at Monash… via distance education! That’s a lot of postage stamps!
- Resigned from my job of 4 years with lots of tears and good bye’s
- Got offered a job working with a NGO (Non-government organisation) company Communicare as a programs facilitator.
- Realised I would have to give up wearing skirts as I’d be facilitating group therapy and counselling with men of domestic violence in prisons.
- Resigned from my new job after a week of training
- Got offered a new-new job working with the department of corrective services as a senior programs facilitator
- Will be earning twice as much as when I was a medical receptionist last month. Whooopeeee!
- Declined 4 job offers in a month and wrote two resignation letters in the space of 2 weeks
So after all the whinging and crying and lots more crying over the years about not getting a job, being a useless psychology student for so long I have finally (almost) made it into the “real” world.
It’s a great step forward career-wise and financial-wise. The only small teensy thing wrong about it (not that I’m not thankful) is that I’ll be delivering cognitive behavioural therapy. Which I actually have not given much time or thought to. Now I know as a starting psychologist I am probably more eclectic school of thought than anything else but something I know that I AM NOT is a cognitive behavioural therapist/psychologist. I AM NOT.
I’d rather be a yoga teacher.
Not that I am saying cognitive behavioural therapy is ineffective and useless. It’s not. But I do think there is more to a person’s problems than the physical symptoms and thoughts and behvaiours that they display. There is a person and a history behind all of that. And each of it individual and thought provoking and intensely interesting.
Until then I will be facilitating CBT via a programs manual day in and day out until I get to private practice and be able to make more difference in the world.
Until then…..
Jamie – update so far
April 1st, 2011 by jamie Leave a reply »So a lot has happened in the year or so since I’ve last (personally) blogged. Here it is in short form:
- Exited from Murdoch’s Master’s class
- Graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling (Murdoch)
- Declined invitation to attend 3rd (boring) graduation ceremony; received my $14,000 piece of paper in the mail instead
- Got accepted into the Master’s program at Monash University
- Currently collecting university student cards: already have 3 and counting – University of Western Australia; Murdoch University and now Monash University
- Currently working my way (slowly and progressively) through the Master’s in Counselling Course at Monash… via distance education! That’s a lot of postage stamps!
- Resigned from my job of 4 years with lots of tears and good bye’s
- Got offered a job working with a NGO (Non-government organisation) company Communicare as a programs facilitator.
- Realised I would have to give up wearing skirts as I’d be facilitating group therapy and counselling with men of domestic violence in prisons.
- Resigned from my new job after a week of training
- Got offered a new-new job working with the department of corrective services as a senior programs facilitator
- Will be earning twice as much as when I was a medical receptionist last month. Whooopeeee!
- Declined 4 job offers in a month and wrote two resignation letters in the space of 2 weeks
So after all the whinging and crying and lots more crying over the years about not getting a job, being a useless psychology student for so long I have finally (almost) made it into the “real” world.
It’s a great step forward career-wise and financial-wise. The only small teensy thing wrong about it (not that I’m not thankful) is that I’ll be delivering cognitive behavioural therapy. Which I actually have not given much time or thought to. Now I know as a starting psychologist I am probably more eclectic school of thought than anything else but something I know that I AM NOT is a cognitive behavioural therapist/psychologist. I AM NOT.
I’d rather be a yoga teacher.
Not that I am saying cognitive behavioural therapy is ineffective and useless. It’s not. But I do think there is more to a person’s problems than the physical symptoms and thoughts and behvaiours that they display. There is a person and a history behind all of that. And each of it individual and thought provoking and intensely interesting.
Until then I will be facilitating CBT via a programs manual day in and day out until I get to private practice and be able to make more difference in the world.
Until then…..
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