Stop Choosing the Hard Way

Grab my free e-course to learn more about macro social work jobs: ⁠macroandpaid.com⁠----If your first thought when you can’t find a job is to go back to school even when you need money right now this episode is for you.I’m talking about the real reason so many social workers and helping professionals default to the long road. Not because it’s the best option. Not because it’s the only option. But because it’s the one that feels most familiar.This is about survival mode. And how it teaches you to ignore ease. To delay growth. To skip over the opportunities already in front of you because you think it has to be hard in order to be worth it.In this episode I’m talking about:Why so many nontraditional students feel like school is the only wayHow doing things the hard way becomes a pattern that keeps you stuckWhat it actually looks like to take the easier route when you’re used to struggleWhat to evaluate before taking on more student loansThe question I ask my coaching clients before they apply to another degreeIf you're tired of constantly trying and still not seeing results this is the episode you need to hear. Especially if you’ve been making decisions from a place of survival instead of strategy.Listen in and ask yourself what I had to ask myself too. Have you gotten so used to struggle that you forgot ease is allowed?🎧 Press play when you're ready for a real conversation.Happy macro career planning,Marthea Pitts, MSW