Mo. But he still drives his own 18-wheeler for four to six days a month for income, enjoyment and the opportunity to help other truck drivers. If we're talking on the CB when we're both driving all night trying to get to Denver, they can say something over the radio that they might be embarrassed to say to to therapist. This is not a traditional social work population. At a truck stop in Nebraska, there were six of us having a talk about sexuality. As soon as they found out I had a social work degree, they started asking questions.
Social work gets right to the nitty-gritty of people's lives.
It was the depressed farm economy that pushed former dairy farmers Gary Dassinger and Virginia Fergel into new careers. N.D. Dassinger was a third-generation dairy farmer who left the business by a government buyout program. Then he took a job working with developmentally disabled people, which pointed him to the social work school at the University of North Dakota, where he received a master's degree. She started taking classes by television hookup, then advanced to night classes and finally was on campus to get her degree at the University of Mary in Bismarck. She still lives on the farm with her retired husband, but their children run it now.