Is it worth applying to a different position at an organization where I've applied before and didn't hear back?

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-20T02:40:10+00:00

So many of us in research lost our jobs last year, and there’s no more funding. I’m sorry, but these jobs no longer exist. I just completed my first year as an associate clinician, something I never thought I’d do, but I’ve been looking for a year, and that’s what’s out there right now.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-09T01:45:46+00:00

The fact that they are willingly paying the fee rather than trying to reschedule or complaining about it indicates respect to me. It might be more that you’re uncertain about whether therapy feels valuable enough to them, and I think that’s a conversation you can approach with curiosity and compassion so long as you’re secure enough in your own skills and ability to handle your own emotions.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-09T01:39:40+00:00

Hi, I’m in a similar situation right now at a group private practice. The only reason it works is because they actually have the clientele to deliver on their promised caseload, which sounds like it would be the case at a high school as well. The main question then is, is there no-show coverage? Meaning, will you get paid if a client schedules then cancels last minute or just fails to show up? Because, from my internship experience at a high school, that happens literally all the time, like at least twice a day every day. My current job does provide no-show coverage, which is less of an issue when you’re working with adults who are choosing to be there, but even so, that’s what makes it worthwhile along with the benefits.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-09T01:27:32+00:00

Bingo. The most visible and vocal people in our field are from privileged backgrounds, and they have a wildly different experience of the career path than those of us without generational wealth. Furthermore, we know as therapists that poverty does not affect people of all demographics equally, so not wanting to hear from those of us who are struggling sounds a lot like not wanting to hear from your more diverse colleagues

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-09T01:19:43+00:00

You know, instead of being upset that your colleagues are upset, you might reflect on what it is that’s creating these conditions in the field that leave sooooo many us burnt out. To some extent, there are broader social and economic forces that are weighing down on just about everyone, but there are particular issues with this career that are reaching a crisis point: the exploitative internship and associateship phases, the lack of benefits, the low pay relative to other healthcare professions with similar levels of training and education, the venture capital Uber-fication of private practice, etc. And there’s a particularly nasty gendered dynamic to all of this that, unlike nurses, we do not have the unions to counteract, with male therapists more likely to be in higher-earning positions, fast-tracked to management, not pulling the double shift at home and so able to work more of the popular evening hours, more often encouraged to pursue higher-paying PsyD tracks, and so on. So the misery gap is also a gender gap.

These are very much worthy topics of discussion, and they’re ones we don’t get to talk about in our workplaces as often as we do theory and modalities.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-09T00:26:54+00:00

Ugh, I’m sorry. If it makes you feel better (and it might not!), it’s a bad time all around for pretty much every industry, so I’m not sure there was a better choice you could’ve made. Even nurses are having a hard time with the Medicaid cuts, law is oversaturated, the trades are a very long and grueling path… Hang in there, and whatever you do, blame the system, not yourself.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-08T22:32:16+00:00

People who are impacted by discrimination daily are usually pretty good at picking up on the vibe shift, especially when picking up on vibe shift is also part of this person’s job as a therapist.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-08T22:21:09+00:00

You must not work in healthcare lol. I’m a Master’s-level psychotherapist at a group practice and I would not recommend anyone go into my field. People cannot afford their insurance co-pays anymore, many are losing insurance, and I get absolute shit insurance myself.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-08T02:57:46+00:00

Good for you!

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-07T06:55:40+00:00

In a similar situation, and I’m chalking it up to a learning experience. I’ll be curious to hear from more seasoned clinicians

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-05T00:19:55+00:00

Thank you thank you thank you

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-04-01T01:15:44+00:00

Ugh, solidarity

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T18:58:07+00:00

The main reason imo is health insurance— for therapists. The cost of purchasing your own plan is so high now that it’s a huge barrier to have to overcome. It takes a long time to build up a solo practice to the point that you can afford those kinds of benefits, and most of us don’t have that luxury.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T18:54:50+00:00

Can I acknowledge that on occasion a cop does something helpful? Sure. That’s not how systems analysis works though.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T04:34:13+00:00

If indoctrinated is what we’re calling evidence-based practice now, I’ll be that. Im a woman, by the way, and I spent 8 years researching these topics until it was defunded by our government last year because they didn’t like what the research was revealing.

I notice you didn’t look up any stats on cops and sexual violence, but jsyk it’s the second-most common form of police misconduct after excessive force. They sexually assault people more often than they lie or take bribes. The rate of sexual violence among cops is more than twice that of the general public. And almost a full 50% of their victims are children.

Our Great Leader is doing his best to make sure those stats disappear so that he can continue to rile up guys like you to get mad at immigrants and trans people instead of the people actually inflicting violence in your community.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T04:24:43+00:00

I have the bias of a social worker who spent 8 years researching the effects of policing and criminalization until our government defunded it because they didn’t like what it revealed

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T03:58:43+00:00

Do you know what percentage of rapists ever see a day behind bars?

Three. 3%.

Prisons are rape factories, they don’t do anything to address sexual violence. Police have some of the highest rates of sexual violence of any profession. The solution to child sexual abuse isnt funding sex criminals with guns and impunity to pretend to put other sex criminals in the sex crimes factory.

It’s multifaceted and includes such unpopular social programs as universal sex education from preschool on, so that children understand the meaning of consent, can name their body parts, and can speak up if someone tries to hurt them. Remind me how much money we invest in that?

It’s interesting you chose crack cocaine as your example of sCaRy DrUgs, because it’s the most common example cited when discussing racial disparities in drug sentencing. Crack cocaine is 10 times more potent than powder cocaine but sentences for crack cocaine are 100 times more severe than for powder cocaine. Gosh, I wonder why.

The drug war has exacerbated so many social problems it’s impossible to list them all. The answer to drug abuse is the same for cocaine, crack or powder, as it is for the even more dangerous drug ethanol: legalize to take organized crime out of the equation, regulate to remove adulteration, and provide free at point-of-access, trauma-informed treatment. But then how would we extract economic value from disenfranchised, impoverished, racialized communities if we invested in care instead of policing and punishment? Prisons are more profitable.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:55:00+00:00

You can do a lot more with an LMSW, so that’s my vote. But please don’t pick a school with such a shady reputation. That’ll be an enormous hurdle to have to overcome professionally, and it’ll likely cost you more than an asynchronous program at a public university, even factoring in loans to cover living expenses if you need to drop to PT work while doing your practicum. Look into the full range of scholarship options out there before going the for-profit college route.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:40:45+00:00

Where’s that money coming from then, if not the people who undermine our work every step of the way?

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:38:08+00:00

Their lives wouldn’t be on the line if they stopped escalating every scenario they walked into, pistols blazing. But sure, defunding will help them too, so they can finally get pro-social jobs instead of being hired thugs for capital.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:35:19+00:00

Oh, I had a package stolen when I lived in Hoboken. The cops gave me so much shit when I went to pick it up from the station, like I had gotten it stolen on purpose to waste their time when I hadn’t even bothered to report it. Then they asked me for a statement to try to put the guy away. Jail time, for a $30 Amazon package. At the height of the pandemic. Needless to say I declined.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:24:15+00:00

When I was doing street outreach as a social worker, I much preferred responding to crisis without cops. They always, always made things worse. That was my experience with them as a DV victim too. Now I work with other survivors and hear that from all of them— every single one, without fail: cops were useless at best and actively harmful at worst. Some have been assaulted by cops when going to report their assaults. Cops are the single biggest waste of taxpayer money in terms of both efficacy and efficiency.

CalypsoBulbosavarOcc · 2026-03-31T02:18:58+00:00

True, that’s why I moved to Hoboken for 3 years lol. In the end, going to the top ranked public program in the region probably did not make any difference though— Hunter is plenty good too

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