So to give you an insight to the kind of person I am, I’m someone who likes observing things, creative and caring for people. I also like working with children also.
I’m more introverted as a person, but willing to work with a team if needed. But I’m not good at leader positions.
At first I wanted to major in Psychology and also neuroscience, for these two seemed to intrigue me a lot. However understandably, my parents told me that these majors require a lot of schooling and I may not find employment. My mom wants me to be a nurse but I rather not deal with close contact with sick patients like that.
I have grown to be better in math and science over high school since I used to really hate science due to a poor teacher. I’m not that strong and find it a bit boring at times, but I am willing to work hard for it.
Sorry if this post is hard to follow. But are there any careers/majors I should look into?
Many people, including well-meaning parents and teachers, often pass on the erroneous advice that psychology (along with pretty much every other social science and humanities majors) are ‘worthless’ majors because they ‘require’ graduate school in order to get a job.
This is not true.
Most people with bachelor’s degrees in these fields are gainfully employed in jobs that require a BA (so not baristas at Starbucks, as is the stereotype) and pay middle-class salaries. We have statistics and data showing that - [here[/url] is one example (scroll down to the bottom, where there are unemployment and salary data), and [url=<a href=“https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Underemployment-Declines.pdf%5Dthis”>https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/Underemployment-Declines.pdf]this report](https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/HardTimes2015-Report.pdf) from the same institute showing that underemployment rates are just consistently low across the board.
Now what IS true is that humanities and social science majors, on average, earn less than majors in pretty much all the engineering fields, many science fields, most technology fields and in mathematics. That’s a decision you have to personally make - how much money is enough for you.