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Hi, so sorry if this is a silly question, but I was hoping to gain some clarity on semantics in the field. I’m writing my essays now for SLP masters programs.

I assume that when you work in school settings, you refer to the people you work with as “students.” And in a medical setting as “patients.” If we are unclear of what population or setting we want to work with (and are planning to use the clinical field placements to help ascertain that), what is the right umbrella term to use? Is it “clients” or is that too business-sounding?

Thanks all

Basically in the question. Am I walking into a bad situation here wanting to transition to SLP and have a career that has life/health balance?

EDIT: I appreciate all your honestly. I’m definitely sad and surprised to hear that SLP sounds so incompatible with my health and not too sure what to do now. I felt like it was something I was frequently told was a good job for career/life balance and job satisfaction but now I’ve read deeper into this forum and realized it sound exactly the opposite! It sounds like there’s a miscommunication between actual SLPs who all hate their jobs and are sick because of it and what job satisfaction data is saying. 😔

Relationships are transactional (at least under this capitalist chokehold).

There have been a lot of diverse reads of this season (some with great insight and some lacking a bit of media literacy imo) but I thought I’d toss my interpretation into the mix.

I think the unifying message of S2 across all core couple dynamics is that when we are trapped in an all-encompassing system driven by the accumulation of and grasping at capital, marriage is essentially a business negotiation. Relationships get turned into exchanges driven by value, opportunity, stability, and utility rather than emotional intimacy.

Maybe this is obvious to most of you here, but I’m consistently shocked by conservatives who lack media literacy on here. Every so often I see some misogynist take about how Ashley is a crazy bitch who should have secured healthcare “the right way.” Completely missing the point of how her lack of adequate medical treatment or envy of Eunice’s socioeconomic position strained her relationship with Austin, or how Lindsay’s loss of generational wealth caused her to hate her husband. Or how gendered expectations from Austin and Josh to provide money in increasingly illegal ways strained their relationships.

Beef S2 is very clearly a critique of unfettered capitalism and an economics driven by competition rather than cooperation. I think the message is that these people all have the capacity to love each other in small moments but this looming threat of financial instability keeps toppling them.