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So I am starting the social work program at PSU in September and I have to write an essay for the application (I can imagine everyone I know here going, "so wait you haven't actually gotten it yet?" just like every time I assumed I would get a house or job). I haven't written an essay in maybe 9 months and I tried to just start writing on this subject of "Why Do You Want to Be a Social Worker?"

I just wrote this hoping it would evolve but it went further and further from being what they are probably looking for:

I want to have a career in social work because I need to pick something. I have always had a drive to change the world, battle the evils, and be a superhero but as the days keep coming, the more I am realizing that this battle is more subtle than I had imagined. Individuals are becoming more conscious in regards to production and consumption, as well as humanity and diversity. During which, large autonomous bodies of power such as corporations and governments are becoming less concerned with the very same subject matter. As this fight continues, we (and I say “we” as referring to the collection of individual human bodies) are lucky if we break even. We are lucky if we live in a culture that allows us to choose happily-produced, well-lived, and securely traded products. Because only by consuming consciously are we contributing at all the superhero team. But this is only one part of the cycle, are we not to assume that the currency you are using is coming from somewhere? So this brings the questions of who you are working for, what do they do, and what are you doing? Let me complete my previous statement: I want to have a career in social work because I need to pick something and social work is the one and only thing I could imagine devoting my time and my talents to. I don’t want to work for corporate profit, I don’t want to work to consume or produce. This battle is heated enough on the field of our everyday lives and for 40 hours a week I will be safe. I want to work in social work because for those working hours I am a human interacting with other humans because that’s what we’re made for. We’ll talk about problems, about the battlefield, and about food and technology and love and fear. I am really good at talking, I am really good at listening. I was made for this career like I was made to be a human.