Psychology Degrees

In an episode of The Twilight Zone, an old man is life-tied to a clock.  That is, the grandfather clock was crafted the same day he was born, so the clock—which has to be wound every two days—determines his death: he will die if the clock “dies.”  He is sent to a psychiatrist by his well-intentioned granddaughter, with whom he lives and whom he is driving crazy with his clock “obsession”.  Chatting with the psychiatrist, he says something to the effect of if people didn’t have relationship problems, psychiatrists wouldn’t exist.

This made sense to me with regards to psychology degrees.  If we weren’t so “screwed up” a culture, you wouldn’t need to get psychology degrees to treat us.

But we do need you and you do need one or more of the psychology degrees established to practice and administer treatment and care, work in a clinical setting, or prescribe meds.  In the same respect, according to the twenty-first-century reports, psychology degrees imply other careers and lifestyles.  That is, not everyone who gets a psych diploma gets to practice as a clinician or psychiatric doctor.  Though, to be fair to the flip side of this gross generalization, not everyone wants to.

If you are one of the many who have worked hard to earn one of the psychology degrees that like English and philosophy degrees are laughed at as being good only for teaching or waiting tables, do not despair.  We need psych majors and graduates in any field where people collaborate, socialize, or compete….  With a B.A. in Psychology, you might think about working in law, where everyone from battered or fought-over children (in custody suits) to those embroiled in spousal abuse or criminal cases need psychologists.

You may take your degree to work in a hospital, a school, or a retirement facility, where people need you, or you may go into marketing.  Yes, consider the psychology—especially today—of buy and sell of push and shove over similar and competing products and services, and how valuable you would be in every area, from demographics to design.

Or you might, according to The Labor Bureau and CNN New York’s Shelley Schwartz, take your newly acquired skills and strategies into accounting, auditing, insurance, or any number of business venues where executives, administrators, and mid-level managers often tout psychology degrees. 

Evidently, where people need you is not only where psychological conflicts, maladies, or malaise obviously exist—but where people work, buy, sell, think, and feel.  And that is just about everywhere, now isn’t it?