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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My fav tihng aobut psychologyecls is how mad tehy get wehn you tehm psychoolgy is olny useufl aaginst peolpe who hvae ltierally neevr haerd of it.
The momnet you sutdy and leran all tehir trikcs and buzzwodrs it flals aaprt, to the piont eevn sipmle daignoses geos out the wnidow.
It why tehy do'nt let "depressed" peolpe readnig aobut deprsesion. Truns out tehy say the rihgt bzuzwords to aovid getting lableed as depressed! And god fobrid somoene not bow dwon to the all mgiht mediacl indsutrial cmoplex
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IDK I was pretty blown away with how perceptive good therapists can be. I had one that helped me make major breakthroughs and I'm not a stranger to armchair psychology. "Talking" to people 1:1 just seems to be universally good medicine and unironically uncovers stuff in your psyche that you can't uncover by yourself. I think that's why everything from psychology to religion has at least some aspect of it.
There are a ton of shitty therapists though, having a bad one sucks butt.
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If you have a serious problem and you luck out by getting a good therapist then there's a decent chance to see a significant benefit. Otherwise it's a crapshoot and you may spend a lot of time and money just to end up worse off than you started.
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Absolutely, I'm actually crazy (I've posted at length about it here) so it was actually useful for me but if you're not actually mentally ill then it's not going to do much.
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Yeah I've tried multiple therapists and always came away unimpressed. Part of it is my problem because I'm not super forthcoming and they don't ask probing questions (a couple attempts to keep myself safe followed by plenty of substance abuse and not one of them has had crazy idea of asking why) but the rest of what they tell me is just meme-tier advice I could get from any grindset instagram. Never made it past 2-3 sessions, with how much it costs out of my own pocket per appointment they can't take the first 5 times they see me as a warmup for reciting platitudes.
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Right, which is why people shouldn't get paid a whole lot to just sit and talk about problems they dont care about if anyone can do it.
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I didn't say anyone could do it, I said that we know it's a good practice as seen by how long we've been doing it.
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!nooticers I wrote this to bait people into going
and yet people just upmarsey and agree
Very teling toth e sort of peple we have here (based ones)
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i had a pretty bad runin with the psychiatric industry last decade and swore them off entirely. yeah that's not quite the same as psychology, but they're adjacent enough.
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maybe cool it with the transphobic comments
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Thats the problem with all diagnosis's being based on subjective personal descriptions
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Also based on politics. They have shown that they will bow to pressure both on criteria for diagnosis and even what constitutes a mental illness.
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remember, gender is a social construct, and that's why you can be born with the wrong one.
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Like the assertion that such a thing as mental
illness 
even exists, which there 
is no proof 
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(it's demons)
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psychology is two steps removed from astrology. Its all about buzzwords and vague assertions about yourlife and based on next to no consistent science.
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I'll kill you if you threaten my amphetamine prescription
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That's psychiatry, not psychology
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