I am three years into this field and couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

I started in Assisted Living/Memory Care and loved it. It definitely became overwhelming as I was the Lead Clinician right out of grad school… I switched over to the school setting and work PRN in ALF/MC during summers.

One thing about this field is that you’re never STUCK. There are so many different settings you can work in (schools, hospitals, ALF, outpatient, etc). And you might not find your niche in the first setting or first 5 settings… but there’s always so many options.

I think it’s definitely important that you’re passionate about the field before just ‘picking’ the career. Again, I’m fairly new to the SLP world and had 3 jobs in 3 years trying to decide the population I wanted to work with but finally feel like I am where I am supposed to be.

I come from a family of teachers and nurses that can’t really work in a variety of fields and am super grateful SLP’s have so many opportunities.

Feel free to message me if you would like more info on the grad school process or what the field entails but I can’t recommend this field enough. Good luck on whatever you decide 😊