"Rewards and Challenges"

Guidance Counselors have been around for a long time. Counselors were once limited to providing primarily vocational services to students, but in today’s world a guidance counselor’s job entails a great deal. Along with a larger workload come more challenges and rewards. High school guidance counselors are busier today than ever before. They now have to deal with a multitude of school problems and personal concerns. The rewards that follow all that hard work must make the job worth it. I believe the most rewarding part of being a counselor must be watching the student head in the right direction after much needed counseling. A counselor’s job also consists of challenges. For instance, when a student doesn’t choose to follow the appropriate path after a counselor took the time to direct them along the way. I am sure it can sometime be heartbreaking.