In short, OP talks about interviewing candidates and being heartbroken at how many have psychology degrees followed by unemployment or low-wage employment in an unrelated field. With this experience, they offer a word of warning to those who wish to pursue this degree. Sure, psychology is interesting, but it's not a reliable career to pursue if you hope to become financially independent.
OP isn't wrong. According to Harvard, psychology is a top 3 most popular degree and it's not a surprise. Many people are interested in psychological topics and they pursue the degree at a young age without considering much concerning the job market or retirement or anything of the sort.
According to a Niche ranking, psychology was the third most popular major among college students in the classes of 2022 and 2023. The share of college students majoring in psychology now hovers around 6 percent, up from 4 to 5 percent in the 1980s.
https://summer.harvard.edu/blog/why-choose-psychology-as-your-college-major/
The number of people with psychology degrees far outnumbers the available jobs. Unfortunately, Redditors don't want to hear it. They love their precious degree and they'll defend it to the death, darn it.
They survived by tricking others into getting a useless degree
If you aren't going to become a psychologist, why spend hundreds of thousands on a psychology degree?
If anyone young is reading this, please don't listen to this fart. We live in a capitalist world. Rid your mind of this nonsense of "chasing your dreams". You're at university to set yourself up to make money, not to pursue your passions. There is nothing remotely passion-provoking in a university.
Bullshit!
One of the few based takes.
This is massive cope. You can literally do the MIT psychology course for free online.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/
The truth is that if you're curious about psychology, there is no need to pursue a degree in it. Everything you could hope to learn is online, neatly organised, waiting for you to access it for free. It's a stupid reason to go to university. If you're trying to get money, the psychology degree is still useless. So, in short, avoid the psychology degree.
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Is there any logic in spending money on going to the university for any degree other than those which require labs and equipments? (Engineering, Medicine, Applied Physics, Chemistry and a few others?)
Even subjects like Law, Linguistics, Economics are not worth going to school for. Just make each one of these have a criteria of certifications like the bar exam or actuarial exams (without a degree prerequisite) and make it longer.
Let's say you have to clear 5 exams over 6 weeks to get a certification in Economics after which you get a license to be an advisor in economics in the Federal Reserve or a certification in linguistics allows you to get a job offer in the NSA. It completely rips away any "elite" stamp from "top" universities.
If you are smart enough, you could be working somewhere, maybe doing scut work for meager pay, but not only would you not be going in debt you would actually be making money while studying at your leisure and get certified within 12 months of passing high school. You can download all the relevant materials from the internet for free or buy used books at a fraction of the price. You can also visit some prestigious archive to study some esoteric shit you want to.
!r-slurs !commenters please let me know if you think this would be worse than the current system. I am actually interested to know what the flaws in my views are.
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Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
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The problem is all the early hiring filtering is done by AI or HR foids who don't know about the field they are hiring for so having a degree a is treated as the bare minimum to get your foot in the door. Thats the detail boomers miss when they say having a degree is useless. Yeah it's no longer a guaranteed job but it's also now the only way for those of us without nepo benefits to get our foot in the door. I have a lot of uni connects with professors and lab researchers but none of them have any open spots for me or know anyone who does because not everyone in a professional field is able to secure spots for everyone they meet
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pure math is a grind of insanely difficult problems to prove you are a smart person and deserving of any job, requires no equipment but does require absolute full time commitment.
It is also about teaching you how to think about problems in a different way
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Get into a study group? If everyone is studying by themselves, you can make a study group and meet up every other day in the afternoons
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That's what university math departments are but with the chinese/jews/indians filtered in
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Connections neighbor.
I wasted most of my time at university but the random connections I made paid off like crazy. I'm not a big networking guy but I ended up meeting people that got me jobs that I would not have met elsewhere. I'm not even that good at what I do but I'm living very comfortably because I happened to know a few of the right people.
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IEEE has chapters. So does CISCO. But noone goes to them to connect because they do all their networking in universities. There are plenty of networking opportunities in those places.
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