If you have a degree in psychology?

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What do you do?
I read a thread the other day where a lot of people were saying its basically worthless. I'm doing one now, and feeling very disheartened as I believed I could make a good career with it.

AIBU to ask what you do and what further training you had to do? I'd love to work for the police as a forensic psychologist, or maybe some sort of sex/relationship therapy

I work within a prison and I didn't need to do anymore training for this. However, a lot of jobs that involve psychology need further training which is often a masters.

I’m a teacher. Briefly contemplated educational psychology but wasn’t really what I expected it to be so stuck with teaching

Teacher too...

I’m a clinical psychologist. I worked for 3yrs after my degree, getting experience, then did the doctorate in clinical psychology. I didn’t really have a back up plan though, not sure what I’d be doing if I hadn’t been successful getting onto my postgrad.

I'm a senior underwriter working in the city of London.

From my degree the research skills and stats skills are very useful.

I loved doing Psychology and would certainly do it again.

Ignore those who say it is worthless. It is very difficult to become a 'psychologist' if you want to do clinical or educational psychology. However I know lots of psychology graduates with successful careers in a whole range of fields - some of which use psychology directly, others less so.
Psychology is useful for market research
consumer behaviour, human resources, management, counselling and guidance, health and social care, ergonomics and human-computer interaction, and more. There are so many things you can do with a psychology degree due to the grounding it gives you in understanding human behavior, research and statistics, report and essay writing. Good all round degree for graduate schemes too.

I've been looking at pgce's in panic ( no offence!) but I really don't want to end up teaching. However, the thought of spending another 3 years at Uni doing masters and Phd makes me very sad, as I'm already 25.

I’m a social worker (have a undergraduate degree in this) and my Masters Degree in Psychology comes in very handy!

I'm a Speech and Language Therapist. I went on to complete a MSc after my psychology degree

I'm a Research Associate in a University (working on my PhD too)-
Got a BSc then went on and did a MSc in Neuropsychology then went straight into research roles, some go straight from their undergraduate degrees into research assistant posts though.
Only downside is the fixed term contracts and the competition for jobs as funding for research is getting cut everywhere!
I did work for a private research company whilst completing my MSc so there are def jobs there after a degree, think laterally as I ended up at a drug testing company as they were doing human cognitive function trials of various neuro drugs and needed Psych grads to do the cogntive testing. Psychology can be applied many ways, don't lose heart!

I'm a business psychologist. I did a further MSc in Occupational Psychology after a psychology conversation masters.

I'm a lawyer and wish to god I'd done psychology (I was at uni 1997-2000!) - however, my dad talked me out of it.

There's loads and loads you can do and it is not a worthless degree at all. Take your time to figure out what you want to do in life

I’m not being mean, but did you not look at the requirements for being a Psychologist before you applied for the degree?

I think it also depends where you are doing it. A psychology degree at 2:1 or 1:1 from a good university is similar to English, Geography etc. you can still apply for the usual grad schemes.

Product research for big companies (in house). i’ve made a VERY good career of my psychology degree .
my husband is a university lecturers (also a psychologist). we both have PhDs though

Nursing 😂

I did research yes, I will definitely do a masters. I just thought I could get a decent job for a while before doing my Phd, but it seems you need the Phd to actually get the jobs. I think that other thread I read has just panicked me a lot. I also want to relocate, I don't want to stay in England

I’ve also done work in usability research, human computer interaction etc
I have colleagues doing similar roles without masters/PhD, but they earn half of what I do. still on good salaries though.

My cousin went into advertising and marketing

He makes ££££

I’ve just finished a joint philosophy/psychology degree. I’m still not entirely sure what I’m going to do next, but (I think!) I’ve narrowed it down to a forensic psychology masters, which will take one year, or I’m going to try to get onto the probation officer training scheme which takes15 or 21 months, but you get paid while you train. I’m very interested in crime and why people do what they do, so either of those career paths should suit me!

I work in child mental health.

Teacher 😂

Speech and language therapist. Didn't need to do psychology degree to do it though just opened my eyes to the possibility.

went into hospital / health care management initially and now teach.
Was really grateful for the Stats element of the degree - gave me a lot of confidence around numbers which I would not have had without.
I think it's a fantastic degree - good mix of science methodology, essay writing and stats skills. I went on to do an MA in Public and Social admin, plus diploma in health economics.

Forgot to mention that my minor is in criminology! So definitely leaning more that way. I just find every topic so interesting that it's made me more unsure because when I started I just wanted to do forensic, but now i equally love neuroscience and social psychology!

I work in IT. I never used my degree, I needed to top it up with a masters and couldn’t afford it at the time. I would probably redo it if I could but cause I learnt a lot about myself and use the skills all the time when interacting with people.