Goobah

my dear goodness, I just googled myself -- all the funeral announcements of all my relatives are there. It's a sad, sad, story. I make all my profiles unsearchable, because I'm weird like that, but man -- all the online funeral announcements listing me as a survivor are just .... sad. I did not even talk about all that because I figured it wouldn't be appropriate to (can you imagine?) but I guess if they google me, they'll see it now. Woah, none of that had entered my mind. Maybe I'll go make my linked in profile public and my academia account public just so they have something else to look at!!! GOODness. Not trying to be a debbie downer ha, I'm just sorta in shock.

Since it is also my goal to be able to work with military members, families, vets etc.. I looked into this as well. I saw a few MSW programs that have a military focus, (USC comes to mind) but my state school does not. So when I went there to take a tour of the program I asked about their practicums. They had several paid practicums (and scholarships) and a few unpaid practicums at the local VA. When I mentioned my previous experience working with active duty, and that I wouldn't mind working with that population again as well -- they told me that they also had 2nd year practicums on the local military base. I guess the level of concentration really depends on how much you know or don't already know about the military culture?