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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Nursing seems like a good route but it's bad for flunkie types who can coast through ezpz psych classes. I know a woman who works essentially a psychiatrist as an NP.
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I'm pretty confident psychiatry is way way more thorough than psychology. Psychiatrists are more on par with doctors and can do useful shit like proscribe hardcore psychotropic meds. They aren't just listening to dumb problems and fricking up marriages.
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Psychiatrists are literally doctors. That's the entire difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist.
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You can become a doctor of psychology too
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Yes, but psychiatrists are MDs first and foremost, their residency is what they do in psychiatry.
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Right, you go to medical
school 
and just do a psych residency to be a psychiatrist.
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psychiatrists are medical doctors
psychs get PhDs
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Not an MD
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It's pretty funny, a decent amount of her job is finding out whether her patients are actually in need of psychiatric help or if they suffer from what she calls "shit life syndrome". I'd personally trust her or someone medically trained over a regular psychologist.
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