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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Most people get psych degrees to figure out what's wrong with them, not to go into the field so I don't know why they're coping so hard
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Most ppl do it because it's not difficult and it's just a way to get a bachelor's degree, which alot of entry level roles require. Alot of ppl don't know what they want to do with their life when they're 18-23 and just get a degree that somewhat interests them
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Yup, before it was philosophy degrees but that became too obvious that it basically meant you were a failure in everything else so now "psyches" have this excuse of "Oh I want to help people with their mental problems (I'm actually trying to self diagnose my own psychosis)"
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I think a lot of them go, 'Psychology is the study of the brain. I have one of those, I'll do well on this.'
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Psychology
is not the study 
of the brain, that's called neurology.
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I never said they were smart.
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Ok but at least do something interesting. One of my da's friends has a botany degree (or something similarly obscure ig) from oxford because he thought that having "Oxford" on his CV even in an unrelated subject was better than "BSc from Glasgow" and it worked, he's done well for himself
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'I just like talking to people' - every psych major I've ever worked with.
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I lot of people default into it because they suck at other things.
I knew a kid who switched to psych after a single semester of undergraduate economics. Neither of these are at all hard, and yet you decide to aim for the one that's even less well-paid.
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Depends. In my experience foids who suck at other subjects (and on scrotes heyooo) go into nursing
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Or teaching
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Nursing is now a profession for idiot
single 
mothers who want the shortest amount of time to pretend they are smarter than you.
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Hey at least you know they put out
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and they wash out, because its surprisingly hard degree for wiping crackhead butt.
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*education
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Someone I know with a psych degree, who dropped
out at the thesis stage 
of her masters, is one of the dumbest people I have ever met, didn't know basic 
every day words, and failed 
at life in more ways than one. It made sense that she is from Indiana since she thought 
that she couldn't get pregnant 
via intercourse, if she didn't enjoy it.
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lmfao can you imagine
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