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To quit or not depends on your definition/perception of success I think. When I graduated from college with a degree in music therapy, I had dreams of working with MI teens in a hospital setting, but there was a recession, hospitals were laying off and even Arby's refsed to hire me. After sleeping on a couch for a year, I was offered a job in corrections, specifically kids jail, where I used my skills to keep kids busy and avoid fights. After that, I wrote investigations for the Court for some years and interviewed hundreds of MI adults who were eventually convicted of murder, rape, robbery, etc. as well as lesser offenses. Eventually, I worked with MI adults, who sometimes needed the correctional leverage to begin to buy into changes that didn't conform to their idea of normal (yet). I was able to spend sometimes lengthy periods of time with people who wouldn't have been able to keep an appointment at a clinic and whose major problems always seemed to occur at 5 o'clock on Friday. There were literally hundreds of times I wanted to quit, was encouraged to go to law school by well meaning people and couldn't bear hearing one more trauma story, but I prayed and received strength from God to continue to work the misaion I was called to. i say all that to say I have no regrets about the career that was never my choice. Choices made with no communication with God are often doomed to fail imho.

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