A lot of mental health professionals have recently turned to the travel industry for a number of reasons. They can get comfortable with the culture of travel, which helps to keep mental health professionals well-informed and provides them with a unique position to speak out on behalf of the mental health community, and of course, they can earn large sums of money.
The problems are that the travel industry is a little bit schizophrenic on how it treats mental health. Some of the best mental health tech jobs are in the most travel-friendly parts of the world, but they also require advanced training and often pay considerably less than other positions.
Travelers come from all over the world, but the best mental health tech jobs are concentrated in Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. They are also often geographically very close to the places where mental illnesses might be more prevalent. Since these jobs are so far removed from our usual patterns of mental activity, they aren’t easily accessed by the general public.
In an area like Silicon Valley, where technology is already taking over, its even easier to find tech jobs. The people involved in these jobs are highly tech savvy, and they have no problem using social media to get their jobs noticed. I’ve even heard of one company that hires people to be their face on a social media page.
I feel like this is one of those jobs that isnt often talked about, because most people just assume its not the type of job they would want to do. Its such a good job, that no one thinks to mention that it might be a bad one. This is just another example of something that could be a huge missed opportunity. If a company is recruiting mental health technology employees, it needs to be more honest with the general public about what the job might be like.
The typical mental health worker is a very young person. I can think of one of my friends who works with autistic kids. He was in his early 30s. When I asked him what he did, he said he worked at a mental health care facility. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I knew he was not a typical mental health worker.
That’s why they need to hire more people like him. Mental health tech workers are the first to admit they are not super-good at everything. But they are also the most common. I’ve met one or two tech workers from my town who are absolutely the best in the entire business and are still in their mid-30s. Even tech workers in other states tend to be young and relatively fresh out of school.
I wonder if this is why some mental health workers have no desire to leave their jobs. I know that tech workers are often single, young, and generally just trying to make ends meet, but if they’re going to be on company time and make enough to go on vacation it’s a little too much. I know they would gladly take the job, but it’s just not realistic.
I think a lot of these reasons could be why tech workers (and even others with job security in that sense) don’t want to leave their jobs (and their homes).
The fact is that technology companies and other employers are finding that it is difficult to find good mental health tech jobs. This is due to a variety of factors, but the most important one is the fact that the technology companies are taking the position even more seriously and that there is a growing trend toward firing people for mental health issues (which is why I think part of the reason tech workers are reluctant to leave their jobs is that they think they are at risk for being fired).
