Family Therapy

Hannaho

Hi! I'm currently training in Family Theapy in Northern Ireland - easier as I live near Dundalk.

Just wondering if I should complete the final year. Finances are tight - it's 7k per year. I'm worried I won't get a job afterwards, or even be able to start up my own busienss.

Currently do a little agency nursing, but that is drying up to.

Any advice would be really appreciated.

Odysseus

My service the Addiction Services in Dublin employ a few Family therapists, quite distinct from the individual therapists. They mostly work in distinct young person's programmes. I don't know a lot about the Addiction Services in Louth, even though I live up that way. However, as the services for addiction treatment are developing in Louth that is one area that might be worth while having a looking at.

hotspur

No-one can speak to your personal financial situation, but at the broadest level do you think you are likely to make €7k as a qualified therapist over the course of your life? If so, then it may well be a +EV decision (EV = expected value).

Also, at the risk of succumbing to the fallacy of sunken cost, the value of your qualification from a purely educational perspective is the total cost paid for it, you would be now getting it for "only" €7k. Imagine doing a qualification for 20 years at €1k a year, you wouldn't drop out in year 19 only €1k away from the qualification.

Work drying up on the agency nursing makes paying for it more difficult and yet at the same time makes it more attractive to finish training in an alternative area.

None of which is to say that you should continue with it, merely some of the things that would run through my mind in calculating the decision.

DaWozzMan

Are you a poker player Hotspur? If not where did you get the term +EV from?