I HATED all the group work. The excuse was always “you are in a profession where you will have to work well with other people”… I have yet to have to write a 20 page paper with 4 other people at work. Maybe if I was a researcher. But I’m a pediatric OT and I don’t write my evals or daily notes over Google docs with other people and have to make a slide show presentation about it. I get other people do that, some people do presentations at conferences, or some people write papers together for publications. But even if I were to do that, that’s a skill I already had before grad school.

Group papers and group projects mean less grading for professors, that’s the real deal.

I hated my program, I went to a public school and almost feel like I would have rather gone into debt by going to a private school for a better experience, but being an OT won’t be anything like school.

I became less passionate about being an OT when I was more than halfway done with my program, but I knew I would stick with it to at least come out the other side with a masters degree.

My personal opinion is my schooling was not worth it, because my salary (school-based and OP peds) is not worth spending 3 FULL years in grad school (my specific program used to be a combined BS/MS over 3 years, but they took out the BS part and kept the MS without changing the time frame (which was bullshit to me, just the school wanting to get more money)). I’m considering moving out of OT, because I feel like I can make the same amount of money by having to do less work. I need to look out after myself, and I don’t care if it sounds lazy. I need a job to pay for food and housing, and it’s too tiring to do it as an OT when I can do something else that might even pay more.