is a psychology degree worth it? curious if anyone here already has some experience in this field of work. Did different things before (worked in IT for a while absolutely hated it) and am now studying psychology since i really like the idea of doing something focused on helping people and actually making a change instead of working for corporate retards. I know psychology is not like in the movies but is it actually a good career choice nonetheless?

>>33237900 (OP)
If you're currently enrolled in college, I'd highly recommend you to speak with the professors in the psych department and ask them about their experiences. You can always look into civil service jobs if you're looking to help people (emergency services, social service, etc.) Alternatively, you could do volunteer work on the side to fill in that purpose. I can't speak to what psych degrees are worth, but I know psychology is on the rise and there's many hacks employed for that kind of work who lack accredited education.

>>33237900 (OP)
i could be wrong but i believe it's one of those fields that is oversaturated as fuck because everyone and their mother thinks psychology is interesting. if you don't network and get to know people that are already in that field you'd probably have to get in the top 1% of your class to distinguish yourself from the 1 billion other people with some sort of psych degree.

>>33237900 (OP)
I won't read survey threads. I won't read threads that ask the reader to decide the direction of OP's like. I won't read threads by drifting plankton people devoid of motivation, passion or a plan.

>>33238458
>like
*life

>>33237935
social services is a pyramid scheme

>>33238458
>drifting plankton people

Sounds comfy.

>>33237900 (OP)
Worth it even if you work at the gas station.

>>33237900 (OP)
>i really like the idea of doing something focused on helping people
Become a plumber. People REALLY appreciate having their sewer unclogged, but any tard off the street can ask "tell me about your feelings" so psych isn't worth that much.
Another thing people like is having their car repaired (until they get the bill) or making their roof stop leaking.

>>33237900 (OP)
If you're prepared to go all the way with it, yeah. You'll be making serious bank and your skillset will be in very high demand. It'd be tough though, I hear that quite frequently that department is critically understaffed. Also, dealing with mental health in general is draining as fuck. There are a lot of people out there with serious issues and 0 desire to do the hard work to improve upon it

>>33237900 (OP)
It's all made up bullshit. blah blah Freud blah blah. It's nonsense.

>>33237900 (OP)
noooo they sent her to therapy

>>33237900 (OP)
It depends on what you intend to do. A bach is psychology doesn't really open many doors. I'd recommend specializing, or accepting that you'll likely need to get a masters before you get good long-term job opportunities.

As some of the other anons have said, talk to your advisors and research your career options to find a direction that you think you'll enjoy. Also for the love of god, don't become a researcher, that shit is awful.

>>33237900 (OP)
I saw a softcore porno movie where a dude was a psychologist who hypnotized women into having sex with him. Probably worth it if you can do that.

>>33237900 (OP)
The two degrees I hear about people doing the most that end up being useless are psychology degrees and art degrees. I suspect because there's a lot of overlap in the students being mentally ill (artists want to create from their dumbass trauma and the psychologists wanting to understand their dumbass trauma). The drop out rate for psychologists is higher though.

>>33237900 (OP)
You need a PhD in order to do anything really meaningful with it. Just an undergrad is going to be pretty useless for the most part.

You're gonna deal with miserable people like me, and it will drive you insane. The difference is though those miserable people unlike me are going to be unwilling to make a change until you can crack the right code in their head to make it.

>>33237900 (OP)
I studied physiology to become a physiotherpaist but initially wanted to be a psych. I'm glad I didn't because:

> All allied health disciplines (psych, physio, OT, speech pathology, etc) have the same issue of a low pay ceiling. No matter how hard you work, you cannot make more than "good-ish" pay without opening your own clinic - which is risky.
> Psychology will at some point require you to pick a side when it comes to certain ideologies. You do have to be pro-LGBTQ in some places and some countries make it very hard to acknowledge that there is a spiritual component to mental health; I cannot deny this as a Christian.
> The turn-over rate is VERY high.

There are other ways to "help people" that don't require you to get an unemployable degree. Physiotherapy has all the same problems of a high turnover rate, low ceiling and saturation, but it is a highly employable degree.

Go for it if you can.
You can join HR in some big company and do stuff like choose candidate, conduct jobs interview and some other easy shit.