Vantaggi
Pretty flexible schedule that worked around my school schedule at the time.
Svantaggi
I would travel 1.5 hours to and from a clients home and would only get reimbursed for a couple miles. Sessions were only 3 hours long so it wasn’t worth it. BCBA training on programs looked like putting new programs in a system to have you read. BCBAs would just sit on their computers during supervision which was very uncomfortable for RBTs. They would also knit pick at mistakes. Some families were extremely difficult to work with. Seemed like ABA and what it entails was never fully explained to some families. It was not fun making my 4 year clients forcefully try various foods to potentially expand their snack interests. I would get my hair and clothes pulled, slapped, and the client would hurt themself. We would have to wait out tantrums for hours. Seems unethical.
