CSUF MSW STUDENTS SPEAK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE STARTING THE MASTER PROGRAM [34:46-36:39]

I would say. i'm having to work while you're in this program while you're at an internship and going to class is not ideal even though it's common. So if you if that's your situation and you find yourself like on the struggle bus now and again or as a frequent flyer and that's understandable I worked a remote part time job my whole first year. And interestingly I think it sort of mitigated my a little bit of my impostor syndrome but it also was something I used to sometimes avoid reading her classwork because I felt very competent in my job it was a continuation of the job I did for six years before versus the newness of the program and the learning and whatnot. I was more drawn to things I felt like I already knew how to do and I could be positive and feel efficacious and. So I made it I worked through the summer again and then was fortunate to be able to receive a stipend for my second year and i'm not working this year which is an intentional choice but not having that thing that's like oh this is what I feel like i'm i'm good at now almost everything i'm doing i feel like i'm new and still learning about which I think part of we're starting talking about the balance self care is part of that i'm anagements part of that still learning. But I think like being aware of what you're getting out of the different areas of your life and when you start a program like this when you're in a program like this all that balance shifts and so you can feel like the thing that I was doing that gave me a lot of confidence or gave me just a feeling of whether that was your job whether that was a physical exercise routine you were all involved in that got disrupted by the program like knowing that those things can kind of.