My reason for becoming a social worker is to mainly help people with
addiction. I am very curious and enjoy helping to
understand individuals obstacles and ambitions. My main drive for
this career is in hopes of trying to impact others with my past
experiences and with a positive approach to helping them also. I am
a very compassionate person and have always tried to save
everyone. Figured may as well make it official and have a degree to
do it!
Without giving any consideration to faith, I would say that we are all
human and are therefore intrinsically designed to care for others out
of humanity. Faith boosts this attitude. Our experiences in life and
the environment influence our behaviour and we react accordingly.
My brothers and friends say that I am a kind hearted person from
the childhood. Looking back at my life, I find it to be largely true. I
would say I have also inherited some of it. As a student, I helped my
classmetes by removing their difficulties in understanding Maths, my
favorite subject. When I started my first job as a teacher, I helped
needy students with books and fees. The change of job did not effect
my behaviour. Now I am living as a retired person working as a part-
time teacher for a charity school without any remuneration. The
school, funded by a philanthropist, provides free education to
children who come from families who cannot afford two meals a day.
To help others, perhaps they understand issues of problem
households or some problems growing up and other issues from
experience, and feel they can offer good advice. Maybe they received
great help from a social worker or someone working in the social
field - that changed their life around.
Also, for the potential it has in changing people's live for the better.
Because they like working with people, and helping to resolve
problems and issues.
Because they want to help their community, country and people
within it to succeed and do their best. It can be very fulfilling to do
such things, to be the motivator or cause for people to get their lives
together, to do well and to go on to do great things and have a better
quality of life.
