If you want to become a community helper, then you should consider working as a social worker by acquiring master degree in social work. This career is both charitable and professional. As a charitable career, it allows you to get spiritual contentment when you carry out your job because you’ve helped many people who are really in need of your help. As a professional career, it opens your opportunity to become a prestigious worker in the field of social works and it also opens your opportunity to acquire lucrative salary from your job. The survey carried out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008 showed that social workers with master’s degree in social work (MSW) could earn the median salaries of $54,441; with the lowest ten percent of them earning less than $45,196 and the highest ten percent of them earning more than $64,359. The middle 50 percent of those workers earned between $49,560 and $59,632. For a social worker, such amount of salaries is considered rewarding.

If you have acquired your masters degree social work, there are several careers that you can pursue. The first career that you are considered eligible to pursue is prison social worker. You must have known that a prison is inhabited by people who have to be ready to live outside the prison after their sentence term expires. As a social worker in a prison, your job is to help them prepare themselves by developing their job skills, strengthening their social skills, and helping them integrate into community. Besides being a social worker in a prison, you can also work as a social worker who works for children, elders, families, substance abusers, mentally ill people, and students.

All of those careers are pursuable if you’ve acquired master’s degree in social work. To get this degree, you can enroll your name in a University to either join its regular classroom program or join its online masters degree in social work program.