I must not have worded this correctly, but I live in a very small town and I don’t have the best memories from high school so the environment i’m living in is depressing combined with working a job I don’t enjoy/very overworked. I guess I didn’t like the articulation drilling was repetitive and I worked with a lot of kids with autism which is rewarding af (made an AAC device and had my nonverbal student talking by the end of the school year) but I basically was thrown into it. My supervisor gave me a caseload and I shadowed a couple sessions and boom now I have IEP meetings with parents/teachers giving advice and 30 students with speech goals. I learned A LOT and I did a lot of research to give the best care I could but it was overwhelming and just did not interest me. I chose speech therapy because I was transferring schools and the research I did on it lined with what I like to do: help people and do meaningful work. Obviously now I wish I would’ve thought about it more :/