Facebookやブログで更新してなかったのですが、3月に無事、社会福祉士(+介護福祉士)の国家試験に合格しました。何というか2年半、音楽に掛ける時間を我慢し頑張った甲斐があったかなと思っています。
もともと音楽家として活動・勉強している間に色々なアルバイトや社会経験を積み、何かしら今を生きる一人の人間として今の社会が抱える問題に関与したいという思いがあった事から、仕事の裾野を広げるという意味でも社会福祉の勉強が役立つのではないかと思ったのですが、心理学や社会学、それに日本や世界の社会福祉の歴史、相談援助の方法論など、どれも奥が深く、すっかり勉強に嵌まり込んでしまいました。
試験が終わり、前職を退職。現在、複数のパートを掛け持ちしながら妻と自宅の音楽教室を開講し忙しくしています。
Recent update
I haven’t been updating Facebook, but in March this year I successfully passed the National Qualification of Social Worker(&Care Worker) exam. It took me two and a half years of sacrificing my time on music &just about anything... Well I have finally been paid off.
The studies were interesting though. I first conceived the idea of studying social work after my interests in the current societal issues in Japan and the globe had grown to a certain level. As a musician working multiple part-time jobs, I probably had seen the facets of life and society, both positive and negative, which led me to pursue the studies. While they had covered vast areas of discipline including psychology, sociology, history of social work, and helping relations, all were interesting, arousing my curiosity. I actually did not feel pain at all, and enjoyed most of them—except the unpractical memorization of trifle things.
After the exam, I switched my job, currently working multiple part-time jobs, again, and keeping busy with the music class we had just opened!
