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Soviet_Poland posted...

GreatEvilEmpire posted...

If you don't use it as a bridge to something else, it's useless. A psychology degree by itself is not very useful.

I don't disagree with you on that point, but I did obtain employment prior to getting accepted to medical school in a sort of "self-created" job that was much better paid and with benefits, but being college educated really was a cited factor for them giving me a chance. The annual salary was higher than what it cost to get my degree.

Like I said, a psych degree won't get you employment in the field, but an undergraduate degree does open more doors if you're creative with your job searching.

All you're advocating is going into college without being informed or without a plan is a bad idea. Congrats, the rest of the world agrees with you. But there is a subset that take it to mean all of college isn't worth it and I can't make assumptions as to what camp you subscribe to.

Any undergraduate degrees gives you a better chance at finding a job than not having one. You won't ever see me disagree with that. The idea to to find a major worth investing in, a field that can actually translate to a job in the real world once you graduate. Take for instance. A Gender Studies degree gets you a job working in the gender studies field. A Public Health degree gets you work in the public health field.

But as I said, those degrees have very little practicality if you're looking for a job. You spend 4 years and over $100K on a degree that doesn't translate into a career. That's why people consider those degrees "worthless" and 'useless'. I'm sure you learn something, but when it's being compared relatively to other degrees, it's a lot less useful. Everyone know it's not 100% useless as you do learn some foundation that can be useful, but it does have a high degree of non-usefulness.

If you're going to further into the medical field, then your psychology degree is being put to use. I'm happy for you. I don't work in the medical field, but I do work closely with a number of doctors on building software to improve doctor-patient interactions.
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