I am considering a career change and am looking for advice on these careers. I am debating between a?

occupational therapist and Speech Therapist. Can anyone in these fields tell me some pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance.I am considering a career change and am looking for advice on these careers. I am debating between a?
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http://science.education.nih.gov/LifeWor鈥?/a>I am considering a career change and am looking for advice on these careers. I am debating between a?
I am a speech therapist but I work in an office with occupational therapists and work very pretty closely with them. I think they are so similar that I could see myself being an occupational therapist and I would like it just as much.





Some pros to being a speech therapist are: it's EASY to find a job because there is a great demand, you can choose your setting (e.g. hospital, private practice, school), the money is decent (but you will never get rich being a speech therapist), it's rewarding.





The major con is that it takes a master's degree so takes quite a while to earn degrees, license to practice, etc. I can't think of too many other cons. It is a busy profession but that can be said for any job.





ETA- A master's in speech pathology would probably take you about 3 to 3 and 1/2 years. You would need to take some undergrad pre-requisites and unfortunately probably not many classes from your BS would transfer because the classes are so specific to speech and langauge disorders. Also, while you can do classes online, the degree (and license) has a requirement of 400 hours of clinical practica supervised by a licensed speech pathologist.