Hello and welcome. It is episode number 37, The Hilarious Humanitarians podcast. I'm

Francis Etchavaria, licensed marriage and family therapist. And I am Deanna Silverman, licensed

clinical social worker. And we're coming today at you with stories of the job hunts before we jump into that want to

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Please always seek the advice of a physician, mental health professional or other

qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a condition. So, Deanna,

we are back and we're back trying to help people get on the right path, get their bearings

in terms of searching in today's job market. Oh. So you were telling me when we were doing some planning off the air that you get questions

sometimes, especially, you know, those fresh young graduates or people in the graduate program

that are looking to get into the mental health field. So we decided that we would kind of

travel down that path with them and let them know what they could look forward

to and what to avoid like the plague. Yeah, absolutely. To start, though, I want to do something

kind of fun. I want to kind of go down a time portal. I want to visit our past. I'm interested to know like what type of jobs you had

before you got into like the mental health field because I don't know about you, but I was not

in the mental health field at all. But I feel like there's always transferable skills. So my very

first job was the job I thought I was going to have for my entire life.

My dad works in agriculture. And I started, as I mentioned before, I started high school when I was

12. And so the summer between freshman and sophomore year, I could get a work permit. I got my

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