Just curious if there’s any psychology majors on these boards? What do you plan to do with your degrees?
Also, any Psychologists here? What do you do exactly?
I’ve been thinking about going the PhD route for Psychology, possibly clinical or forensic, any advice offered would be appreciate.
I’m a cognitive neuroscientist. Take the path that you have realistic interest in regardless of what title it has attached to it, Phd or not. Just remember that in this field the reading and writing never stops. All the best.
I quit my job at the beginning of the year and started fulltime study doing psychology. Its something i’ve always wanted to do and was really over working in IT.
I’m enjoying it so far but have only been doing it for about a semester. Am aiming at this stage for clinical psychology but there is a good 3 or 4 years before i have to decide for certain.
Feel free to ask me any questions but like i said i havn’t been doing it for long. On top of what infiknight said though, just be sure you don’t passionatly hate statistics…
I am a psych major. I am interested in pursuing either sports psychology or experimental psychology. Eihter that or I will become a teacher.
Run of the mill psych major here. I loved the subject and still do, just got tired of the ‘rats and stats’ focus of postgrad courses. So I didn’t pursue it. Plus I also have a commerce degree, and the financial rewards of that line are a whole lot better a whole lot quicker. But in the future, who knows…
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Double major Psyc and Business . Working as a Business Development Manager for a Multinational in Afghanistan currently.
My undergrad is in Neuro Psych. I’m in grad school now working on my PhD in Neurobiology and Anatomy. I decided that one can only take a Psy. degree so far. I got some flack when I did my grad school interviews because many don’t view psy. as a real “science.” I disagree, but in the end, neurobio is more marketable.
[quote]The Fragile wrote:
Just curious if there’s any psychology majors on these boards? What do you plan to do with your degrees?
Also, any Psychologists here? What do you do exactly?
I’ve been thinking about going the PhD route for Psychology, possibly clinical or forensic, any advice offered would be appreciate.[/quote]
Sorry, had to add a little more. I would suggest pursuing a PhD that involves more “hard” science, such as biochem, pharmacology, physiology, or neurobio. The training you get in the labs will really pay off if you return to the Psy. field.
Most psych majors stop at a B.A. I earned by B.A. in psychology last year and I just got hired as a probation assistant (19.50/hour, not bad for starting pay).
your undergrad BA doesn’t necessarily have to dictate your life. For instance, I’m a German Studies major(entails language, politics, art hist, lit, history)… but what the F am I going to do with that? i’m still not sure and i graduate next month.
My mom got a psych BA at UC Berkeley back in the 70s. now shes the CEO of a very productive Bio-tech company. That has absolutley nothing to do with Psych! follow the path that interests you. if you’re determined, you’ll be successful.
I don’t have a psych degree, my undergrad is Exercise Science and my M.S. is in School Counseling…many of my classmates (actually most of them) were psych undergrads and chose to pursue school counseling/mental health counseling for their Master’s
just my two cents