Hillcrest Working Experience

During my time at Hillcrest, I have learned a lot about myself in many ways. I saw some good outcomes of working with people and about other organizations around. Working with people that are not the same mindset as fellow social workers made it difficult but I made it through. That it self-taught me that nothing can keep me from making the best out of the situation. At Hillcrest, I worked hard on every task that I was given, either it is clean an apartment, take out expired food out of the pantry, call all applicants to gather information and even set up interviews. I took every task given as an opportunity to show that I am worth the time to be there. I strongly believe that I did my best work during my time given because I am the type
It can be just simply helping them clean an apartment, setting up food donations, budgeting. It can be anything to help them become a better person. This experience widened the definition of social work in my mind. In five years I see myself with a masters degree in social work and working with the degree. It's hard to pin point where I want to be working because I haven’t made pin pointed my first job with my bachelors. At this time I will be looking forward to seeing how I will overcome having my first born learn to drive and getting ready to graduate from high school, as many will know will be the scary thing for me and his dad for the current issues we have been facing. In ten years I hope to have set my feet in the best position for me and the boys and will never have to worry about going paycheck to paycheck again and worry if we will have enough to pay for emergency things along with the necessities. Its hard to thing of ten years down the road with me, mostly because it makes it more real that my boys will be twenty-one and nineteen. The only thing I see I can see that can be a positive even with all these things is that by these times they boys will be growing up to be men and they won't need me as much. It will give me the time to spend with myself and a spouse if I have one at this time. It will give me the time to travel more and experience
I worked so hard to get at this moment. Only thing that keeps coming into mind is how upset I am that I ruined my chance of graduating with honors only because I wanted to try to be part of a family that I would always feel accepted, only to feel the same, at the same time ruining my GPA that in turn ruined my chance of graduating with honors even though I had received only A’s some B’s since entering my social work major. I hoped for an acknowledgment for my hard work all these six years and only have the graduation to be shown. This is why it will be a happy day for me to leave Missouri Western. It means the end of an era and beginning of a new one. For the next set of cohorts going into practicum, I would advise them to take their time to learn on their own, they cant expect others to always teach them. Depending on their practicum location, they may be left alone a lot and should be comfortable with it. They will need to work hard, working hard will get them to the end. They should always look to the positive when having a bad day. The countdown always made it easier when my days seemed to go on