Vantaggi
Effective methods. Coworkers are smart, dedicated people. Flexible hours. Fast-paced sessions make the day go by quickly--you're rarely bored.
Svantaggi
The culture that corporate enforces promotes a constant over-the-top positivity that comes to feel creepy and false (e.g., one must respond with "my pleasure!" when thanked for anything). We were told during training that "this is an emotional job, in that you are required to be happy"--very weird. The people at the top seem to advocate this unnecessary focus on various minor aspects of presentation at the cost of addressing substantive issues of instruction. A lot is expected of clinicians--you must manage behavior, act as a diagnostician, and complete a significant (often unrealistic) number of instructional tasks in each hour. You have only 5 minutes between sessions to prepare for your next student (including putting away and setting up materials), and you may not have any time to learn about the diagnoses they have, behavioral issues, and so forth. You are expected to build a rapport with the student and make learning fun, yet also follow the instructional plan to a T and not waste a single moment in each 55-minute allotment. Both esteem and pay are low given the responsibilities and skill set required, and the pay has now been lowered even further with little warning (other reviews detail this situation).
