If you have ever thought of becoming a psychologist, then this article is for you. You'll learn everything about becoming a psychologist, where you could work, how much you would get paid, etc. I'm writing this career summary to learn about psychologists as much as you.
It's rewarding because they know that they are helping people, but it can be stressful at times because they might bring their patient problems onto their lives.
They sit down with people and listen to them talk about their lives and their stress-related problems, they give them advice or ideas, they can give diagnostics as well.
They are their own boss, this means they don't have a fixed schedule. They usually work on their own and if there not interviewing patients they are writing reports.
They can work in their own clinic, if they are doing some research then they work at universities for the government. The second option brings more money
You will have to stay in university for more than two years to get your master's degree. But if you want to be more independent as a psychologist and have more work, you can get a doctoral degree. This will bring you more money. If you only end up doing a bachelor's degree, you might work with other psychologists that have their doctoral degree.
Hourly the general wage is $38.64, and yearly it can be $80,370, but it varies depending on what your degree is.
They will have conferences about the recent research results, and they will also have to do an internship.
It can damage their mental health because they might get affected by their patient problems, they can overthink everything, and bring their problems onto their own lives. This can bring depression or suicide.
Very low because the human mind will never be 100% duplicate by robots, they won't have empathy or won't know when something should or shouldn't be said. Psychologists adapt their work depending on the patients, robots won't know the difference.
They usually retire at 61 years old, I think that at that age, I will have reach full professionalism and won't be negatively affected by my interactions with my patients and I hope I will have helped as much people as I could. I hope I won't skip the opportunity to have my own cabinet because I will regret not having this level of independence.
I would say that I am half-way in this career trajectory because I am almost done with my college degree, and my university degree will be the last thing I will have to do. My goals are to become a safe place for some people and to make their life better slowly bu surely
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