Hi, dear friends—
If you could step into a time machine
and return to the day you filled out your university applications…
Would you still choose social work?
Would you still choose this path?”**
Once, a colleague shared how they explained the profession of social work to their parents.
They said:
“Social workers teach people how to live and function in society.”
What do you think?
Does that actually make sense?
The older we get,
the more we realize…
it really does.
Because helping people become capable of helping themselves—
isn’t that one of the deepest goals of helping work?
Studying social work also taught us
to see the world from multiple perspectives.
Not rushing to judgment.
Not reducing people into simple labels.
Not viewing problems through only one angle.
And maybe…
that way of seeing the world
quietly became part of who we are.
Of course,
the reality of practice
slowly pulls at those original ideals.
We ask ourselves:
“Am I really helping anyone?”
“Why does it never feel like enough?”
“Somewhere along the way… did I lose myself?”
And yet—
If we were given another chance,
we might still fall into this profession all over again.
(Laughs…)
Yeah… probably. 🚬
Maybe because despite everything—
the exhaustion, the disappointment, the emotional burden—
there are still moments
that remind us why we stayed.
Moments where someone feels understood.
Moments where pain becomes survivable.
Moments where a person slowly regains dignity, strength, or hope.
And somehow,
those moments also save us a little too.
So if you ask us today:
Would we still choose social work again?
Maybe the answer is:
“Knowing everything we know now…
we probably still would.”
Not because the road is easy.
But because somewhere deep inside,
we still believe
people deserve to be accompanied.
And maybe…
we needed this profession
just as much as it needed us.
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這一集是中文版第 32 集「如果重來一次,我還會當社工嗎?」的英文版。
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