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I'm 24 years old.
I will continue my schooling next semester in this September.
I have another year left of my psychology program.
I plan on becoming a teacher.
But that means I need to go to teacher's college for another 2 years.
So I will finish my psychology degree by the time I'm 25.
But I need another 2 years of teacher's college.
So I would be 27 to 28 by the time I can become a teacher.
If I can't become a teacher with my psychology degree, what can I do with my psychology degree?
Business administration uses psychology. Any job where you'd be supervising people would use psychology. If you want to be a practicing psychologist, you'd need to get an M.A.
lol, sorry, you are not going to use your psychology degree to land a job supervising people in "Business Administration" functions. Fact of the matter is, Psychology degrees are only worth it if you get a Masters and become a licensed therapist or get a PhD and become a clinical psychologist.
You can't just get a degree in Psychology and then make it fit whatever you want, there is a reason degrees have career paths. Accounting for a CPA, Poli Sci/law for attorneys, etc.
lol, sorry, you are not going to use your psychology degree to land a job supervising people in "Business Administration" functions. Fact of the matter is, Psychology degrees are only worth it if you get a Masters and become a licensed therapist or get a PhD and become a clinical psychologist.
You can't just get a degree in Psychology and then make it fit whatever you want, there is a reason degrees have career paths. Accounting for a CPA, Poli Sci/law for attorneys, etc.
You have to keep in mind that it's not 1999 anymore.
Psychology is taking off in the tech sector (and has been for a decade). Tech is very competitive however... so if you're not from a good school, you're going to have a tough time.
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lol, sorry, you are not going to use your psychology degree to land a job supervising people in "Business Administration" functions. Fact of the matter is, Psychology degrees are only worth it if you get a Masters and become a licensed therapist or get a PhD and become a clinical psychologist.
You can't just get a degree in Psychology and then make it fit whatever you want, there is a reason degrees have career paths. Accounting for a CPA, Poli Sci/law for attorneys, etc.
This is true only to a certain extent. Psychology is a huge field. It is not limited to the clinical stuff. In management, marketing, social media...there is a special connection. What are people thinking, and why? And how can we get them to buy our stuff? Every corporation wants to know the answers to these questions. Forget clinical psychology, there's no money in it. Blend your degree with a masters degree in business/marketing and focus on client recruitment and retention. Throw in one or more foreign languages to boot (Spanish, French, Mandarin). Recruiters will be calling you.
lol, sorry, you are not going to use your psychology degree to land a job supervising people in "Business Administration" functions.
Unless you get an MBA. Psychology is part of the curriculum. Someone with a degree in Psych would come out ahead a little. It would look good on their resume.
This is true only to a certain extent. Psychology is a huge field. It is not limited to the clinical stuff. In management, marketing, social media...there is a special connection. What are people thinking, and why? And how can we get them to buy our stuff? Every corporation wants to know the answers to these questions. Forget clinical psychology, there's no money in it. Blend your degree with a masters degree in business/marketing and focus on client recruitment and retention. Throw in one or more foreign languages to boot (Spanish, French, Mandarin). Recruiters will be calling you.
Or how can we get our employees to do what we want, or be more efficient, etc. Psychology has broad applications. The OP figured one out--teaching.
Psychology is essential for Human Resources work, and the hiring process. Interviewers need to be able to size up candidates. Those who do a good job are invaluable. Those who don't have a good psych background or enough experience to size people up end up hiring employees who later become a problem. It can cost the company money, if someone has to be fired, and a new batch of people have to be interviewed.
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Advertising, such as finding out how to get people to click on an annoying pop-up, or trying to narrowly target consumers based on their preferences and shopping patterns. Soon, as we walk down store aisles, hidden microphones will call out our names and remind us of things we like, maybe play a few seconds of our favorite music, then make a sales pitch for New Beenie Weenies With Cannabis! or perhaps a super-smart garbage can.
They'll need psychologists to figure out how to do that most compellingly.
My daughter got her degree in psychology in 2011 and has been a case worker since then.
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