I don’t have any personal experience in social working, but I do know someone who’s been in the field for a very long time. She enjoys it so much, its almost a passion; a conduit to channel her compassion and caring nature. I also think it’s a round-about method of internal healing. She heals other people’s problems in hopes of learning how to, (or to project the), heal(ing of) her own problems. However, healing one’s own problems are much different from doing it to another.
If you feel like this is your passion, then just do it. Sure there seems like a lot of well-informed opinions on that link, but I’m sure there are many positive posts too. For every action, there is an equal or greater reaction. Haters will hate, just do what you want. Someone once told me that if you’ve made a choice at one point in time, it was exactly what you wanted, or something like that. However, time does change desires, but it doesn’t change facts. Just do a little soul-searching, and just commit! Go become a social worker if you want to be one!
Don’t let whatever anyone says keep you from doing what you wanna do, or change what you think you wanna do.
I don’t think money is everything. If you love what you do, then you do what you love. What I mean by that is, if you enjoy helping people and making their lives better, then money will become secondary. Who cares if you don’t live in an extravagant habitat? People will talk shit you if you live in a small house or a big house! It just comes down to doing what you wanna do. If anyone at the top gave up just because of a bunch of shit-talkers then they wouldn’t be at the top.