46. How to Find Quality Jobs as a Social Worker with Marthea Pitts, MSW
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Marthea Pitts discusses how social workers can find quality jobs and the factors that differentiate low-quality jobs from high-quality ones.
In this episode, I chat with Marthea Pitts, macro social worker and founder of Macro and Paid, to talk about finding quality jobs as a social worker. Marthea has spent over a decade moving from case management into macro-level roles, including co-leading a $2.5 million workforce development initiative in Washington, DC. She shares how one good quality job changed her life financially and how she’s seen the same shift happen for hundreds of coaching clients. We get into what actually separates a low-quality job from a high-quality one, and it’s not just salary. Marthea breaks down the role of benefits, professional development, and workplace support systems, and why so many social workers mistake burnout symptoms for personal failure. We also talk about why the job market feels so hard right now and what’s actually going on. We chat about: Why one good job can change your entire life Low-quality vs. high-quality jobs and how it’s more than just salary How to reframe your relationship with money as a social worker without feeling like it conflicts with your values Why work-life balance is impossible in a low-quality job What’s real and what’s fear-based content about the current…
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