New job!

I'm going to be starting a new part time job at a Rehabilitation center here in town and am super excited about it. It is the type of place that I have really aspired to work since I started working as a Speech Pathologist. I will work with children but in the future may be able to widen my experience to include adults, too. I will also work with children under 3 (in the schools it was 3 and up). It is a very family-friendly work environment and they will completely work around my schedule and let me work during the girl's school hours and have no problem with me leaving for maternity leave in March and returning in the fall. It is such a great opportunity.

If you know anyone in college with an undecided major or who may be interested in health or education, let them know how great the demand is for Speech Pathologists. They always told us in college that finding jobs would be easy but I never really grasped it until the past few years when the rest of the world is having such a hard time finding a job and as an SLP if you submit your resume, you're going to get a call back for an interview. Most of my interviews have also been more of a "When can you start?" type of interview than a real interview, too. Our work environments are so diverse with the choice to work in schools, private practice, nursing homes, home health, early childhood intervention, hospitals, etc... The demand is only becoming greater with many baby boomers beginning to retire and not enough new Speech Pathologists to fill the void. Just wanted to share my thoughts on a field that I sort of chose randomly but couldn't be happier that I did.