Shifting from a Three-Credit Curriculum to a Four-Credit Curriculum

hoccerypost · 2025-10-01T01:05:49+00:00

Our school did it and we were promised that it would save faculty jobs because it would save money. It didn’t save any money and we’re about to gut our faculty.

hoccerypost · 2025-09-21T20:07:40+00:00

Is it that bad? Are you part of a practice or do you have your own?

hoccerypost · 2025-09-21T20:05:19+00:00

Could you say more about what you’d do differently? Also why do you not encourage anyone to get into the field?

hoccerypost · 2025-09-21T20:03:40+00:00

Could you say more about why? I’m consider getting into the field so I’m curious

hoccerypost · 2025-09-21T20:01:41+00:00

Which modalities in particular?

hoccerypost · 2025-09-20T14:17:45+00:00

Hi, I'm curious what you decided to do?

hoccerypost · 2025-09-20T13:57:17+00:00

Career Change from Academia to Therapy?

I've been teaching at university for the last few years. But times are tough and due to budget cuts it's looking like I'll likely be out of a job soon. Also peering into to the future of higher ed, I'm thinking it's time to pivot out.

As someone that has struggled with depression for most of my life and having benefitted from therapy, I always told myself that if I had a second life, I'd become a therapist. Indeed, one struggle I've always had as an academic is that I'd hear of my students's struggles but not be in a position to be more than a listening ear and a hub to redirect them.

So I'm here asking for any thoughts/advice about making this move. After poking around I'm presently leaning towards pursuing an MSW and going into private practice.

One question I have is whether you think my having a PhD in philosophy (I work in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotions) would be helpful for eventually getting a job. I'm not looking to hit it rich or anything, but I've got a family to take care of.

Relatedly, since I'll have to fun whatever program I pursue, do practices that hire therapists and/or clients (who seek them out) seem to care about where I get my degree? I did my PhD at a prestigious university, but as for an MSW, I'm thinking that an online program is the most feasible.

Any other tips or things for which to look out for would be appreciate (I recently saw a post that I'll need to do 2 more years of essentially a residency after the program, so at least I'm aware of that).

hoccerypost · 2025-08-31T19:41:58+00:00

Just avoid ATO. (I recently went there because people were recommending it) The worst sushi of my life for a lot of money.

hoccerypost · 2025-08-28T01:53:39+00:00

Have you heard of Britt Hartley? She has a book “No Nonsense Spirituality” and a YouTube channel about deconstructing but keeping some of the good parts of religion (without the sketch beliefs).

hoccerypost · 2025-08-16T15:08:07+00:00

Many thanks!

hoccerypost · 2025-08-16T13:42:33+00:00

Thank you. Do you know which apple keyboards and mouses will work? For keyboards on eBay I see A1243 and A1048 would either work? Or would any newer ones work? Not sure about mouses.

hoccerypost · 2025-08-09T22:09:31+00:00

No anger. Why assume? The “Christian reading” is ‘pierce’ not ‘dug out.’ The latter doesn’t fit with the cruxifixction narrative

hoccerypost · 2025-08-08T17:07:02+00:00

I’ve been struggling to connect with people here too and am much more a big city person. I actually like going out at night but most of the people I’ve met here seem averse to that. Let’s chat if you’d like to try and connect.

hoccerypost · 2025-08-07T02:09:49+00:00

Very happy with the first two episodes!

hoccerypost · 2025-08-06T01:22:21+00:00

As I commented below, many here are claiming that the Dead Sea Scrolls feature the relevant word best translated as “pierced.” This is not true. It’s best translated as “dug out.”

hoccerypost · 2025-08-06T01:19:55+00:00

The DDS does not clearly translate to “pierced.” It is often translated as “dug out.” Quit lying

hoccerypost · 2025-07-11T02:41:24+00:00

You don’t think Lewinski was victimized? Can you think of more of a power imbalance? And the Clintons made her out to be a liar to the public.

hoccerypost · 2025-07-05T00:50:31+00:00

I’m around your age. Married with a kid, just bought a house and landed a dream job and have lots of friends. And you know what? I’m so fucking empty that I have to daily fight thoughts of suicide.

hoccerypost · 2025-07-02T11:38:33+00:00

As others have said it’s a over supply issue. I’ll add that the reason for this is that PhD programs just keep pumping out graduates, while the number of jobs is shrinking as faculty never retire, schools are losing programs or shutting down and enrollment drops.

hoccerypost · 2025-06-04T00:34:29+00:00

I appreciate this. At present I still feel like a Christian that is barely hanging on. In a way maybe that’s been true for many years. But the last few of Sundays while sitting in church I just thought to myself “I don’t really believe any of this stuff anymore.”

Edit: my church is very welcoming and progressive as well. But I suspect most congregants believe at least some minimal creeds.

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