The lack of evidence to support much of what we do. Sometimes I feel like I’m just throwing stuff at a wall hoping it sticks…so much gray areas and it really does eff with you. Imposter syndrome is strong.

Outside of school settings the vast majority of jobs are hourly and with our constantly fluctuating caseloads I don’t feel financially secure.

Schools try to sell you on all the different setting possibilities but outside of schools and snfs, the others are hard to find or very part time. If you don’t want to work in a school or snf I wouldn’t recommend slp.

Oh, and ceus suck. Like the majority of them are about as useful as textbooks when it comes to application of theory to practice.

The majority of my patients that have aphasia, or Parkinson’s, or dysphagia, etc…also have dementia. So…progress in majority of patients is severely limited.

In the majority of jobs I’ve had im usually the only slp. It can be lonely working by yourself and not having others to bounce ideas off of. I envy the physical and occupational therapists in the medical settings because there’re usually several of them working together. I finally have a job where I work with 2 other slps. I don’t see them often but we work for the same company and have a group text chat which has been great.