The life of a psychologist.

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Choice count: 92

Section count: 66

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Field Related Analysis:

Education : 54 matches (CEGEP, Down, Education, PhD, School, adult, advanced, bachelor's degree, banding, behavior, choice, classes, cognitive, college, course, courses, degree, doctorate, don, exam, fail, failed, failure, fees, field, goal, grades, graduate, kindergarten, knowledge, learn, level, management, master's degree, mentor, prerequisites, private, project, pupil, register, research, scholarship, school, semester, senior, skills, social, student, student loan, students, teach, teacher, training, university)

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 50 matches (accident, animals, appointment, bequeath, Cabinet, charge, children, clients, Clinical, close, company, conference, construction, contact, contract, death, debt, delivery, Development, enlarge, family, force, hire, House of, House, lawyers, living, marine, master, mortgage, offer, office, order, partnership, pension, possibility, price, private, process, rates, receiving, register, reputation, schedule, security, society, Special, sue, volunteer, young)

Tourism : 38 matches (Association, Benefits, Concordia, Conference, Construction, Contract, Destination, Environment, Goal, Opportunity, Program, Promotion, Restaurant, aboard, appointment, charge, conference, consultant, contract, course, destination, fees, field, forward, guard, host, housekeeper, master, pass, pension, program, register, sector, stand, stop, through, times, trip)

Target Structure:

income (1 match)

intern (1 match)

internship (2 matches)

learn the ropes (1 match)

mortgage (1 match)

on-the-job-training (1 match)

pension (1 match)

put aside (1 match)

retirement (6 matches)

the drive of work (1 match)

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The life of a psychologist.

Congratulations

Congratulations!

You finally graduated from cegep. Now, you are entering the adult world. You want to have a great job and have a lot of money, but you are not sure if you want to go directly to university or take a year off.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Choice 2 : Take a year off.

World map

Take a year off.

You decide to take a year off. You want to travel and explore the world during this year, but you also need money to be able to travel and for the school tuition next year.

Choice 1 : Get a job.

View of Loyola campus in winter (AD building on the right, CC building on the left)

Go to university.

You are accepted at Concordia University, but you do not have prerequisites in order to start the courses of your program. Here you are again having to catch up to continue your studies, and you are tired of all that. You still have the choice of completely changing careers and training to become a security guard.

Choice 1 : Pass the classes you need to start in your program at university.

Choice 2 : Drop out.

Get a job.

you find a job to help you save money so that you can pay for your next year's education or make a trip during the year.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Choice 2 : Decide to travel.

Decide to travel.

You decide to go on a trip! You do some research and find an excellent way to travel and get in touch with the social work environment. You chose to go in humanitarian travel aboard in childcare.

Choice 1 : Registration.

Registration.

You register in the world’s leading volunteer travel company, working in over 40 destinations around the world. You do all the formations and finally it’s time for you to choose your destination.

Choice 1 : Volunteer in Greece.

Choice 2 : Volunteer in Costa Rica.

Choice 3 : Volunteer in Nepal at Kathmandu.

Choice 4 : Volunteer in Morocco at Marrakech.

Kefalonia, Myrtos beach

Volunteer in Greece.

In Greece, you develop skills for Kindergarten, School Support and Special Needs Care. You meet a person in Greece who turns out to be a psychologist, researcher, teacher working at the University of Athens. You spend the entire stay with him and at the end of the stay, he offers to come to study in Athens. You would become his pupil, and he would do your training. He loves students who love psychology like him, and he is ready to help you.

Choice 1 : Go back home.

Paseo de los Turistas (Puntarenas principal avenue).

Volunteer in Costa Rica.

In Costa Rica, you develop several skills for teaching, health care, caring for children, construction and protection of marine animals.

Choice 1 : Go back home.

Kalapatthar, Everest in Nepal The tallest mountain of World having 8848m height lies in Nepal.

Volunteer in Nepal at Kathmandu.

In Nepal, you develop several skills for teaching young people, but also in the medical sector and construction. There you meet a teacher at McGill University who has joined the same group of volunteers as you. You get on very well with her and before you get back, she gives you her contact details to contact her. She is in contact with several psychologists, and she can help you, if needed.

Choice 1 : Go back home.

El Jadida

Volunteer in Morocco at Marrakech.

In Marrakech, you master several skills for teaching and social work with young people. With the amazing immersion, you learn manual work in fields or site development. At the end of your stay, you go back home.

Choice 1 : Go back home.

Air France

Go back home.

Back home after volunteering aboard for almost 6 months. You start working again to save for the university and you have to decide. You have the opportunity to study aboard and have a mentor to teach you everything you need to know to become a great psychologist, but you have to leave everything being you to build a new life in another country. Or you go to the university in town.

Choice 1 : Go to university in Quebec

Choice 2 : Go to Athens University.

Air France

Go back home.

You come back home from Costa Rica, and you start working again to save for university.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Air France

Go back home.

You come back from Nepal, and you start working again to save money for university. You remember that you have a teacher at McGill University. So, you have to choose whether you call her or not. If you call her, you'll have to be accepted to McGill University.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Choice 2 : Go to McGill University.

Royal Air Maroc

Go back home.

You come back home from Morocco, and you start working again to save for University.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Athene

Go to Athens University.

You finally decided to continue your studies in Greece. The psychologist at Athene has already told you that he will host you for the duration of your studies. He recommends that you get a scholarship to concentrate on your studies.

Choice 1 : Receive a scholarship.

Choice 2 : Don’t receive a scholarship.

Building of the University in Athens (Attica, Greece)

Receive a scholarship.

You leave for Athens. You got the scholarship you were hoping for, and you could afford to pay for your studies with the money you've raised while working. The psychologist's welcomes you and begins to teach you the basics to be a good psychologist. You work hard to finish your studies.

Choice 1 : You succeed and get your license.

Choice 2 : You failed and don’t get your license.

Don’t receive a scholarship.

You leave for Athens. Unfortunately, you did not get the scholarship. You end up having to work 3 times stronger than everyone to get your license. You juggle between school, work and late sessions with your mentor. All this work makes you almost give up before the end of your course.

Choice 1 : You succeed and get your license.

Choice 2 : You failed and don’t get your license.

Internship

You succeed and get your license.

You succeed and get your license. The psychologist who helped you during your studies propose you an internship in his office with a possibility to get a job if everything goes well.

Choice 1 : You accept his proposal.

2 choices

You failed and don’t get your license.

Despite all the efforts, you don't get your license. Your mentor agrees to give you another chance, but it's the only one you'll have. You have the chance to start again to get your license or to go home to Canada.

Choice 1 : You start again.

Choice 2 : Go back home.

Internship

You accept his proposal.

You accept his proposal to learn the ropes. On-the-job-training, you make some mistake, and the psychologist is pretty demanding, but he takes a shot and let you assist him during his sessions with his clients. After, months as an intern, he gives you your own office, and you are now working for him.

Choice 1 : But you want more, you want to be your own boss.

Choice 2 : You are satisfied with your position.

You start again.

You try for the last time to get the license.

Choice 1 : You succeed and get your license.

Choice 2 : Go back home.

Office

You are satisfied with your position.

You continue to work for his office. In time, you buy a house and start a family. You work for the same firm until you retire.

Choice 1 : End.

But you want more, you want to be your own boss.

After a while, you tell your boss that you would like to move to another level. You would like to take the lead and become your own boss. So, the chief of the cabinet offers you an idea. Since he is old, he is ready to bequeath you the cabinet to his retirement. You have been his student since the beginning of your studies. So, he has confidence in you. On the other hand, he does not retire before ten years.

Choice 1 : You accept his proposal.

Choice 2 : You can’t wait for that long.

You accept his proposal.

You accept his proposal and twelve years later you become chief of staff. You hire other psychologists. The cabinet is growing and you are starting a family. You end up living a comfortable life with your wife and children in a house of your choice.

Choice 1 : End

You can’t wait for that long.

You refuse. You can not wait for that long. So, you leave the office and you open another one with the savings you have and the loan the bank gives you.

Choice 1 : You plan is a success.

Choice 2 : Your plan doesn’t work.

Office

You plan is a success.

You manage to build your practice and start receiving clients. Subsequently, students and some psychologists come to see you looking for work. Your firm grew up and it gains in reputation. You end up living a good life and eventually, you start a family.

Choice 1 : End

Epic failure

Your plan doesn’t work.

You open your office, but it's a failure. You can't make a name among the other firms already in place. You have no money and you have no source of income. You feel ashamed to go back to the office where you were, so you come back to Canada to find a job in a cabinet and you stay there until you retire.

Choice 1 : End.

McGill University

Go to McGill University.

Back from Nepal, you apply to register at McGill University. While waiting for the University's response, you go back to your parents and work hard to pay the school fees.

Choice 1 : You got accepted.

Choice 2 : You don’t get accepted.

Health

You got accepted.

You were accepted to McGill. You will now start to get the doctorate in Psychology. After two years, you graduate. You then get a job as a research officer in health and social services.

Choice 1 : The job suits you.

Choice 2 : You want more.

Back home

You don’t get accepted.

Unfortunately, you're not accepted at McGill University because of the low grades you got in the Cegep. You have to go back to your initial plan.

Choice 1 : Go to university.

Go back home.

Despite all of your efforts, you have not managed to get your license, and you decide to return to Canada. You find yourself a job, and you apply to the university. Since you were already well-advanced in Greece, you do not need to resume classes from the beginning. You just need to make an equivalence.

Choice 1 : Get your master's degree.

The job suits you.

You receive a good salary. You are very satisfied with your work, so you decide to keep this job and do not want to go on to have the PhD. After a few years, you receive several increases, and you settle down. You live your peaceful life.

Choice 1 : End

You want more.

But you do not want to stop there. You juggle between work day and evening classes until you get your doctorate. During the process, you can easily find several interns easily thanks to the contact you make from the teacher you met in Nepal. You know several highs and lows, but you end up getting out of it.

Choice 1 : You get your PhD.

You get your PhD.

You get your PhD. The last place where you did your internship so loved the work you did that the owner of the firm offered you a job at the end of your studies. In addition, he loved the research work you did on the mental disabilities and solutions that you propose to solve several he offers to apply to become a researcher. He is ready to support your application.

Choice 1 : Take the job and apply for the researcher position.

Choice 2 : Take the job but refuse the researcher position.

McGill University

Take the job and apply for the researcher position.

You accept the position offered by the chief of staff and decide to apply for a researcher position at McGill University.

Choice 1 : Application rejected.

Choice 2 : Application accepted.

Take the job but refuse the researcher position.

You accept the position offered by the chief of the cabinet, but you revise the position of researcher he offers you. You decide then to settle for your career as a psychologist and evolves in this environment.

Choice 1 : End

Application rejected.

Unfortunately, your application has been rejected. They consider that your work was not developed enough. So, you give up on the idea of looking. You still have your psychologist career to built with your new firm.

Choice 1 : End

McGill University

Application accepted.

You were accepted into the McGill University Research Center. They have been impressed by your research work and believe that you will be able to provide them with good ideas to advance research in the field of psychology. After a while, you're officially a psychotherapist who works in partnership with the McGill University Research Center.

Choice 1 : Life as a worker.

Life as a worker.

Unfortunately, research and consultation takes so much time that you give up the idea of starting a family. You spend your time working and after 45 years of work, it becomes too much for you. The drive of work becomes too much what drives you to retire. By living alone with a dog and a housekeeper, you saved enough money to retire. In addition to that, you have finished paying your mortgage.

Choice 1 : Retirement.

Retirement.

You finally took your retirement. With savings that put aside, you take the opportunity to travel and visit your family that you have not seen for several years. You now have time to enjoy life and you even meet an exceptional woman with whom you share the rest of your life.

Choice 1 : End

Concordia University

Pass the classes you need to start in your program at university.

You choose to persevere. You register for the course to have all the credits that you need, and you succeed. You can finally start classes to get your bachelor's degree in science. But, your studies are more expensive than you thought.

Choice 1 : Study and work at the same time.

Choice 2 : Get a student loan.

Drop out.

You can bear to have something that keeps you from moving forward. You tell yourself that this may not be what you want to do as a career. So, you chose to give up the idea of becoming a psychologist. You find training to become a security officer.

Choice 1 : Training to become a security officer.

Security guard

Training to become a security officer.

You work hard during the intensive training and here you are at the delivery of the results. Today, you will know if you have completed the training.

Choice 1 : You succeed.

Choice 2 : You failed.

Congrats

You succeed.

You have completed your training. You can now work as a security guard for different companies. You move from one company to another before settling with Garda company. You found a family and climbed the ladder in the company to become operations manager. After several years of service, you retire and you are entitled to a pension. You see your children grow up and stand on their own. Your wife is retiring a little before you, and you continue to live on the two pensions.

Choice 1 : End

You failed.

You fail the training and you are so discouraged that you decide to stop everything. You find a job at McDonald's, and over time you become a supervisor.

Choice 1 : End

Study and work at the same time.

You will need more money for your studies. So, you will work at the same time to study. You go back to the restaurant where you have already worked. The restaurant owner takes you back and you stay a full year. Unfortunately, you are running out of study time because of the job.

Choice 1 : Stop working.

Bank of Montreal

Get a student loan.

You choose to take a student loan to cover your studies until you graduate.

Choice 1 : Bad news.

Stop working.

Your employer tells you he can not give you less time because he doesn't want to hire someone for a few hours of work. So, you quit, and you decide to take a student loan for the years you have left.

Choice 1 : Get a student loan.

Bad news.

It's your last year before you graduate. You learn that your father had a tragic accident. He died instantly. The death of your father has completely upset you. The funeral is happening in Congo. So, you have to go back to Congo for the funeral, but if you go, you lose a full year of school. Two of the classes you must take are available during the fall semester only.

Choice 1 : You decide to stay.

Choice 2 : You decide to go.

You decide to stay.

You choose to stay to continue your studies. Your decision creates a lot of tension between you and your family. Your mother does not want to talk to you anymore. You continue to persevere until the end of the year, and you wait for the results.

Choice 1 : Get the degree.

Congo

You decide to go.

You chose to leave for the Congo. You leave your studies aside for now. You spend the time to mourn your father. You take advantage of this moment to do some research and you find a job offer in a center that is looking for a research officer in health and social services. You will have applied, but you have not finished your studies since you had to leave the country for your father’s funeral.

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Get the degree.

You pass the exam, and you get your Bachelor's degree in science. You do some job search, and you find an offer for a health and social service research officer position. You apply, pass the interview, and he hires you in training period. After a few months, you get a promotion and you wonder if you shouldn’t be satisfied with this job.

Choice 1 : Get your master's degree.

Choice 2 : Stay with your job.

Get your master's degree.

You go back to university to do your master's degree. After a year of hard work, evening classes and internships, you finally get your master's degree.

Choice 1 : Find a job.

Stay with your job.

You are rather satisfied with the place where you are. You decide to beat your career in this center. You will eventually get your master's degree to have a better job in the center.

Choice 1 : End

Consultant

Find a job.

A few months later, you find a job as a consultant. You really like this job. It allows you to travel a lot, have several meetings with senior leaders and to see different countries, but you think to settle down and start a family. This job does not allow you to reach this goal, and you want to not have to work so much.

Choice 1 : Get your PhD.

Choice 2 : Stay with this job.

Get your PhD.

You are going to get your doctorate. After obtaining your doctorate, you find a job in a correctional institution and you are officially part of the association of practicing psychologists. It brings together all practicing psychologists in the province. With your expertise in Clinical Neuropsychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Science, you will help to enable many individuals to correct their behavior so that they can reintegrate into society. In the evening, you work on your project to open a private cabinet.

Choice 1 : The private cabinet project.

Consultant

Stay with this job.

You would like to have more money and less work. You would like to decide your own schedule and work whenever you want. You decide that you want to become a psychologist and have your own office to do your consultations. To reach this level, you must have a doctorate, but you don’t want to redo another 2 to 3 years of study and lose the job where you are. So, you choose to remain a consultant and continue to enjoy the good benefits.

Choice 1 : End

Correctional facility

The private cabinet project.

A couple of years later, you are ready to open your practice. You have raised the necessary funds and the bank has given you a loan to get the place you want. You have some colleagues in the field who have agreed to get on with your project. You take the time to arrange the place a little and you start your business. The beginnings are quite difficult because you have to get a lot of contact, advertise, offer free consultations and charge your customers at a low price so that people can refer you to other people. All this work and all these expenses without being paid back. It even drives you to want to abandon the project.

Choice 1 : Keep going.

Choice 2 : Go back to work in the correctional facility at full time.

Correctional facility

Keep going.

Despite the difficulties, you persevere. You set up this business with your hands with the help of 3 other people. You can not give up so close to your life goal. After a few months of hard work, you begin to see the result of your work. Since there is less of a practicing psychologist and your prices are rather low compared to other psychologists, your appointment schedule is filled up fairly quickly. You start having so many clients that you leave your job at the correctional facility. Eventually you slightly increase your rates to allow you to enlarge your cabinet.

Choice 1 : Your cabinet start going well.

Correctional facility

Go back to work in the correctional facility at full time.

You decide to abandon the project and return to work full time. You are well in debt and the people with whom you started the project are angry at you. You let them down. Lucky you, you have not signed a contract, so they can not sue you.

Choice 1 : Condemned to work to pay your debts.

Correctional facility

Condemned to work to pay your debts.

You are stuck working in a correctional institution to pay off your debts with the regret of having given up the reason why you worked so much. You will have spent so much time repaying your debts that you will have almost no savings. Your retirement will be quite complicated for you.

Choice 1 : End

Your cabinet start going well.

After a while, you go through a few lawsuits because your firm does not respect all the laws in force. Your practice continues to prosper. You end up with 6 lawyers available in the office for consultations. You will go back to school to learn management skills to learn how to better manage your practice.

Choice 1 : The best part of your life start.

The best part of your life start.

After a while, you go through a few lawsuits because your firm does not respect all the laws in force. Your practice continues to prosper. You end up with 6 lawyers available in the office for consultations. You will go back to school to learn management skills to learn how to better manage your practice.

Choice 1 : Share your knowledge.

Share your knowledge.

You are at the end of your career, and you want to share your knowledge.

Choice 1 : Become a teacher.

Choice 2 : Start giving conference.

Teacher

Become a teacher.

You decide to become a teacher. You apply to cegep where everything started. The college feels very honored to welcome a psychologist from your expertise with a lot of banding who knew how to fight all his life to realize his dream. You have been teaching for 10 long years before retiring, a well-deserved retirement.

Choice 1 : End

Conference

Start giving conference.

You decide to travel and give conferences around the world accompanied by several researchers, psychologists and neuropsychologists working in different branches. Unfortunately, you won't be able to do it for a long time because of your deteriorating health. You end up taking your retreat sooner than you thought, but you keep in touch with researchers at McGill University.

Choice 1 : End

The End.