<p>marc: “Your going into a field where no one is going to look highly of u, no one you are going to be working for respects you.”
Hun, if I were to become a prostitute, no one will look highly of me. Stop speaking for others by saying no one looks highly of social work and human service workers. A lot of people I’ve told about my major and plans think what I want to do is great. So keep your own opinions to yourself.</p>
<p>you can major in anything and get into social work, just sayin.</p>
<p>^^^ That’s what I was trying to say.</p>
<p>Major in something more practical so if you decide social work isn’t for you, you have other options.</p>
<p>“Hun”- unless you have a bit of an attitude adjustment, you might find that no one will look highly of you. Seriously-- a little lighter tone here will go a long way.</p>
<p>Cheshire, I used to intern at a hospital and have heard from everybody that social workers are extremely well respected because they have such a tough job and get very little compensation. I was thinking about becoming a social worker for a long time also, but I eventually grew to love nursing.</p>
<p>Consider nursing if you want a “practical” job with good pay. There are several concentrations you can do as a nurse. Because you said you want to work with child abuse/sexual abuse victims, you should know that there is something called forensic nursing. Forensic nurses work to get evidence from a victim a regular nurse would otherwise not identify as something that has come from abuse. They work with the police department and can go to court for their professional advice to put criminals behind bars.</p>
<p>Nursing is also very tough work. So I also suggest to shadow to get the feel on how stressed you would get. I personally love getting stressed, especially if I get to help people in the end of it all.</p>
<p>Most of the people on this thread are idiots who want you to work some boring rat-race job so you can be just as miserable and soul-crushed as they are.</p>
<p>First of all, psychologists make 75k starting typically, if they go military they can start at 100k. Not the same as a social worker, but still working in ‘mental health.’</p>
<p>Social work and psychology are not ‘babying people’ so they can shell out money. Any person who says this has studied neither field and has revealed the vast extent of their ignorance.</p>
<p>Who on this thread thought sociology = social work? You are so clueless it’s astounding.</p>
<p>Someone on here said servers make 50k? Wow, sign me up to that fantasy job. The median salary in the US is between 20-25k according to the census, and perhaps as high as 30k according to some salary site for an individual. Why doesn’t everyone become this mythical highly-paid waitress? Because you are a moron, that’s why.</p>
<p>We get it, many people on here think you should go to college, study engineering, get a 60k job at the outset, move up to 70 or 80k after several years tinkering with pipes and cogs, and then die, being satisfied with you comfortable suburban middle-class lifestyle, leaving a legacy of a few cog designs behind. If that sounds like the life for you — a life where the goal is to take as little risks as possible and have lots of creature comforts while leaving behind a meaningless legacy, then go for it. The 60k cog-making heat-density structural integrity widget job will be waiting for you.</p>
<p>Looks like you took comportment lessons from the OP, Peter.
To get a job in psychology one has to get into a graduate PhD or Psy.D. program (no easy feat), complete difficult coursework, research protocols (masters, dissertation, etc) an internship (also very difficult to land these days) and then, maybe get a salaried job as a psychologist (and pass the licensing exam).</p>
<p>I’d like to meet someone who graduates with a Psych major or minor who goes and gets a $75K job as a psychologist. That’d be one amazing story.</p>
<p>Luna, I have thought of going to school for nursing, but my weakest subjects in school were always math and science(not social science). My mom has a masters in administrative science and works in nursing homes, and the pay is good. But I just don’t think I’ll be able to handle all of the math and science courses.
And peter, thanks for making me smile. I don’t know why everyone keeps on talking lowly of human services.</p>
<p>" I’d like to meet someone who graduates with a Psych major or minor who goes and gets a $75K job as a psychologist. That’d be one amazing story. "</p>
<p>just look for psychologists who studied psychology in college. You take that, go to med school and get your MD as a psychiatrist and that’s already half (or more) of the battle since only psychiatrists can prescribe medication. They’re basically drug dealers with degrees.</p>
<p>^^^^ Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Post # 49 wins the prize for the most ridiculous and ignorant post of the week. Congratulations.</p>
<p>I oversimplified, maybe, but it still stands. You get your MD as a psychiatrist and you will be earning some big money (according to PayScale and Salary.com).</p>
<p>I don’t plan to hijack the thread into a discussion of the training programs for various healthcare professionals ,nor of a discussion about healthcare and health adminstration.</p>
<p>Gee, my dad doesn’t like my majoring in physics either. He wants me to go into engineering. But I hate engineering as hell. 
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<p>Just ignore whatever your dad complains about. It’s you who are going to college, after all!</p>
<p>I only have to take Stats and Calculus for maths. I forget how much science - not as much as I expected I remember. I recall seeing in my curriculum that I had more nursing specific things like child bearing, or mental health nursing, than stuff like OChem. My weakest subject was math too, but I knew I really wanted to help people so I’m planning on persevering.</p>
<p>well, considering almost all servers cheat on their taxes, yes they do make around that amount.</p>
<p>I took a year off to pay for OOS college, made 52k AFTER taxes as a server, That along with my parents income= no financial aid for OOS.</p>
<p>peter, considering my cousin is an engineer and makes 80k after 3 years as a computer engineer , i’m sure they can top out well over that. Considering a lot of companies also pay for your graduate degree is a plus, they dont do that for social work i can tell you that.</p>
<p>people pay more for the jobs that less people can do. A majority of the country is horrible in math and sciences, why you think they pay a lot more vs customer service type jobs? Anyone can “help” others out, anyone can talk to people, anyone can do customer service work, very few have higher end thinking that can create objects that save lives.</p>
<p>as psychologist, unless your plan a lot more schooling a bachelors in psychology is worth nothing, maybe an insurance desk job if your grades are high enough.</p>
<p>Marc, I don’t understand why you’re still here. You haven’t helped the OP in any way and are only pushing something that she doesn’t seem interested in.</p>
<p>because im agreeing with his father about how he doesn’t like the major. Major in something practical. Don’t waste your parents money.</p>
<p>The OP is a SHE, Marc.</p>
<p>Your father probably does not like your major because it does not pay decently; I do not either. Find something more profitable.</p>
<p>Also, community college is more cost-effective and one can get one’s general education requirements out of the way with less effort. If the credit transfers the same, better to pay less.</p>