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Post 6: Postgraduate studies

Hi! In this post i’m going to write about the postgraduate studies I may want to do in the future. Up until now I haven’t given any thought to postgraduate studies, because I haven’t finished my psychology undergraduate studies yet. To be honest I don’t really like studying that much. I’d rather work without the need to have more university degrees, however I may need to get a masters or a PHD, since that would improve my chances of getting a very good job. If I were to do so, I’d try to study while working, because I have my mind set on paying for my own degrees after finishing my undergraduate courses, and that means I can’t study abroad, which I don’t find attractive anyway. As I said, a postgraduate degree isn’t very appealing to me, but that doesn't mean I don’t think that it’s important to learn constantly about how one’s career might change through the years, and that’s why going to conferences and short courses is so important. If professionals of any kind don’t work on...

Post 5: My future job

Hi! In this post I will write about my future job. Since I study psychology I suppose my future job will be as a psychologist. One of the advantages of being a psychologist is that there are a number of different careers one can follow. Many people think that psychologists work only in therapy, but that is not the case, there are several jobs that may be done by psychologists such as human resources, investigation and working in the legal system.  Despite the existence of all those career choices, the one that appeals to me the most is doing therapy, however, I still don't know for sure if that is what i'm going to do in the future. I'm a little bit scared of being a therapist, because it's a very delicate job, what therapists do may have a huge impact on their patients and I don't want to be the one that screws up people's lives. There's really no way of knowing how good of a therapist I will be until I actually begin working with real patients. At leas...