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post 1568757161 12-15-2018, 08:08 PM
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Do degrees like Psychology lead to a decent job market and relevant job titles? (srs)

Was wondering this as everyone seems to be portraying it as a meme degree to a very over-subscribed market ?

I used to think that demand for psychologists (therapy) and in research is there but more and more of people I know who did that do not work anything related to that besides from Human Resources which is not really that connected.
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post 1568757261 12-15-2018, 08:09 PM
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post 1568757531 12-15-2018, 08:14 PM
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my cousin majored in that and now shes doing her mba.
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Doubt it. Might become a social worker or something similar and make a whopping 40k/yr because of it
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post 1568757651 12-15-2018, 08:15 PM
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lmao at pseudoscience
post 1568757681 12-15-2018, 08:15 PM
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Not without a PhD.
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post 1568757841 12-15-2018, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted By PrimarisIn⏩
my cousin majored in that and now shes doing her mba.
So she is then applying to what kind of jobs ?
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post 1568757921 12-15-2018, 08:19 PM
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The social sciences require much less quantitative reasoning abilities than the natural sciences. You just need to know algebra and how to work statistical software at a very elementary level eg R, Stata, spss.

Psychology probably requires the least amount of quantitative reasoning abilities of the social sciences, hence popularity with people who have no intention of using the degree, but aren’t smart enough for the natural sciences and think the humanities degrees are less employable than any social science.
post 1568758521 12-15-2018, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted By kovalchuk71⏩
Not without a PhD.
What is there after a PhD
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post 1568759391 12-15-2018, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted By anonkunbrah⏩
lmao at pseudoscience
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post 1568759591 12-15-2018, 08:41 PM
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Psych major checking in
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I’d advise against it LOL
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post 1568760661 12-15-2018, 08:58 PM
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my dad got a psychology degree in the 70s and went into outside sales. just recently retired and was making over 100k for as long as i can remember. has a huge house with acreage that is paid off and produced 3 alpha sons who went on to follow in his footsteps. somehow we are all much more bald than him so i suspect he used his knowledge of psychology to trick the reaper when he came calling srs
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post 1568760831 12-15-2018, 09:01 PM
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Basically a luck of the draw with it. You may get some government jobs tho
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post 1568761011 12-15-2018, 09:05 PM
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It's what you make of it. Probably one of the worst degrees to just "have" but being in school allows you to get internships, co-ops, assistant positions and the such. Be proactive in making use of it, don't graduate with a 3.0 GPA and expect anyone to care.
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post 1568761221 12-15-2018, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted By VTheKing⏩
It's what you make of it. Probably one of the worst degrees to just "have" but being in school allows you to get internships, co-ops, assistant positions and the such. Be proactive in making use of it, don't graduate with a 3.0 GPA and expect anyone to care.
Oh the question never was whether or not you can put yourself in marketing/business roles that do not require specific degrees if you apply and etc. That is for sure. We talking about related to the degree purely like Electrical Engineering gets you into jobs as an engineer in a tangible market.
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post 1568761301 12-15-2018, 09:12 PM
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post 1568761341 12-15-2018, 09:12 PM
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Bachelors in psychology is one of the lowest paying degrees out there
post 1568761421 12-15-2018, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted By SmackBossBoyo⏩
Son, psychology is the preferred degree at Starbucks. You want to be a barista? Get on it son, get that paper. Smack the piss outta that mocha latte

ass out boy son
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post 1568761601 12-15-2018, 09:17 PM
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Nope. People who do well with a psychology degree are the exception, not the rule, and in those cases it’s usually due to the person themselves, not the degree.
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
Was wondering this as everyone seems to be portraying it as a meme degree to a very over-subscribed market ?

I used to think that demand for psychologists (therapy) and in research is there but more and more of people I know who did that do not work anything related to that besides from Human Resources which is not really that connected.
You need to get multiple advanced degrees for psych to lead to anything normal.

It's something you have to be passionate about, it's not like a money degree where you go to work and make big bucks without much effort.

In addition, if you're going to get good at it, you need a LOT of real life experience. It's not some kind of technical job where you learn how to work a computer, and that's just how it works, and works the same everywhere. You have to learn psychology and then actually see how what you learned applies to real life. So, it's like you learned how a computer works and then apply that knowledge to a pound of bacon.

There's lots of failure and twisted weirdness in psych too. That will either be the coolest thing ever, or you will hate people and get depressed.
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post 1568761771 12-15-2018, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
my dad got a psychology degree in the 70s and went into outside sales. just recently retired and was making over 100k for as long as i can remember. has a huge house with acreage that is paid off and produced 3 alpha sons who went on to follow in his footsteps. somehow we are all much more bald than him so i suspect he used his knowledge of psychology to trick the reaper when he came calling srs
He never used his psych degree, so that doesn't count man.
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Originally Posted By anonkunbrah⏩
lmao at pseudoscience
Science is nothing compared to psychology.

Psychology is far more complex than science.

Please use some "science" to help a kid who hates themselves after being raped, a person who wants to commit suicide, or a wife that wants to divorce her husband, and see how that works, lol.
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post 1568762341 12-15-2018, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
Science is nothing compared to psychology.

Psychology is far more complex than science.

Please use some "science" to help a kid who hates themselves after being raped, a person who wants to commit suicide, or a wife that wants to divorce her husband, and see how that works, lol.
lmao try to getting to the moon and back using psychology, see how that works out for you
post 1568762511 12-15-2018, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted By gluon⏩
lmao try to getting to the moon and back using psychology, see how that works out for you
Haha!

Psychologists are heavily employed by the military, etc to stop people from going crazy in such situations.

In WWII almost NO ONE shot their weapons on D Day and later the military employed psychologists to figure out the problem.

Going to the moon turned out to be pretty irrelevant anyway, lol. They even lost the plans how to do it.
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post 1568762811 12-15-2018, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
Haha!

Psychologists are heavily employed by the military, etc to stop people from going crazy in such situations.

In WWII almost NO ONE shot their weapons on D Day and later the military employed psychologists to figure out the problem.

Going to the moon turned out to be pretty irrelevant anyway, lol. They even lost the plans how to do it.
You say stuff that are truthful, however it seems the demand for its practical use (actual therapy, consumer behaviour analysis in corporations, basically similar as the military example you gave) is very low. And most people, despite desire, end up into something completely different.
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
He never used his psych degree, so that doesn't count man.
or did he use it every day in sales?

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depends on how motivated you are. actually being a psychologist? not really likely you'll have a lucrative career

however, I know people who were psych majors that are software engineers at their jobs just because they know how to code.
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Originally Posted By mchabs⏩
depends on how motivated you are. actually being a psychologist? not really likely you'll have a lucrative career

however, I know people who were psych majors that are software engineers at their jobs just because they know how to code.
As mentioned earlier, it is a well known fact that there are tons of jobs that do not require a specific entry-level degree and that you can apply and get them with a Pysch major. It is not what is being discussed.
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post 1568763501 12-15-2018, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
Science is nothing compared to psychology.

Psychology is far more complex than science.
Just lol at this garbage. Your "psychology" has been around for about 100 years give or take, and the results from this field suggest that we still don't understand the actual SCIENCE behind how the brain works. I have no need for unfalsifiable crap theories......give me real science. NEXT.
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Unless you are a hot sloot, getting a degree in psych = barista.
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