What kind of careers for social work would be out there if i'd be leaning towards like maybe advocacy? maybe for children or even being a activities coordinator of some sort for older people.
Thought about nutritionist *which i don't think i'd get a social work degree for that, probably some health nutrition degree* cause it sounds like social work as in i would be helping people. Like it would be the same idea, advocating for people's health, and being in a profession of helping others in life in living a healthy lifestyle etc.
Ah do keep in mind I haven't done this type of role for a long while...
Advocasy is part of many care roles. There are socail workers who dont do care in a direct sense but manage a case load of troubled families or children in danger (don't under estimate how hard that can be on your own emotions). Many of those types of roles are being advocates for kids/vulnerable people...
With a SW qualification a range of human care roles - both as a practitioner and direct carer are open to you (mine was more direct care), but community type workers etc. Then you can climb the career lader and manage other SW.
Nutritionist - can work in hosptials helping people who are obese/anorexia, or have diet related conditions, such as diabetes, or chrones desease etc... They can work in private sector, testing food products for FMCG companies, or New product development for Pizza hut etc... Or testing food stuffs, or academia... Not always people orientated...
If you want to work with helping people...
Optician - earn loads but long qualifying periods
Densits - earn loads but again long qualifying periods and high suicide rate (probably borning work/confined spaces etc)
Nursing - poorly paid in the UK but I beleive the US is better - not for the squemich (general, midwifes, pediatrics, mental health (and historically learning difficulties)) and then a variety of sepcalist.
Occupational therapists - who help people select tools to help them live independantly... like spoons and grips for arthytus sufferers.... they can work with old people to make their homes easier to move around etc... help with some physical movement therapy too... quite a clean job - nothing yucky about it to my knowledge
Pysiotherpist - lots of spending time in hospitals getting people to cought up phlem... or helping stroke sufferers regain movment, conductive therapies - encouraging people to increase their movment. Help teach people skills to improve thier life quality such as disabled people. They can also work with athelets and people with bad backs and the likes...
Choropodists, pediatrist... everything about feet, one of my neices wanted to do this early on in high school like since she was 14 - very strange, but she is now qualified and runs a practice looking after feet, and also sees a lot of sports people.
There are loads of other options... some pay better than other, but the ones whic don't pay well have emotional rewards.
Good luck - you might be as well trying to havec onversations with practicing people from a variety of disciplines to see what is good and bad about their fields....