I think at the moment, anyone thinking of doing one of the applied degree subjects such as psychology, archaeology, anthropology, criminology, even law, has to get over the fact there is no clear career path at the end of them. These are just not training for a specific career, and there are also tens of thousands of graduates out there who also work hard, get a 2:1 or first and want to work in the field.
That doesn't mean you can't get a job at all in those sectors, just that there are very few jobs at present- budgets are cut in places like education, psychology, in the police and so forth- that budget cutting means they are taking far fewer people on, and often prefer, say in the case of the police, in-house trained people rather than recruiting from outside. In the case of clinical psychology it is a whole several year training after the degree and it is extremely competitive to get on the courses. Same with law training.
A few people do it. They tend to have great results (often a first), relevant work experience which often only rich students can afford to do, like intern at a law firm in the summer hols or work as a volunteer to get social/educational experience, and often contacts as well. They are utterly persistent and apply for internships/jobs from their second year at uni.
What job do you think you would get with psychology? Counselling is several years of training, clinical psychology is several years of training and research is a Masters and a PhD and a post-doc and not that well paid!
I do actually think psychology is a good degree to do, precisely because it has some quantitative/stats skills, paper/report writing as well as being interesting, but it's not like counselling/clinical work at all as an academic subject. But, it would be useful in the same way any good degree from a good uni would be- as a stepping stone into jobs that require degrees, not necessarily to be a psychologist, at least not on its own. And, graduates now have to be flexible and do all kinds of jobs to get employment, not just one relevant to their degree.