Having a lot of trouble choosing a major...

[Kirby]

Took some programming classes in high school and I liked it, so I figured I'd try CS in college. 3 years later I'm doing the same thing.

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

So now I'm trying to see if medical is my goal, or if psychology is where I want to be even though my parents are fully against it. I realize that at most I care for the well-being of others than anything else. I rather have the guy next to me feel a lot better about himself than my own well-being. Whether or not that's a good clue for psychology or medical is something I have to figure out.

Your parents are ridiculous - psych is a perfectly valid medical science, and one which can pay pretty well to boot. Sure, you're not making the $350k a year of a good open-heart surgeon, but on the other hand, you've got a much lower stress level and need not worry about 20-hour shifts and being woken up by your beeper at 3AM.

You may want to consider going into psychiatry, which is similar in many respects to an M.D. and trains you to perscribe medication, instead of psychology, which is largely research sicience and trains you to run rats through cages.

I might also note, however, that while the psychology major is pretty easy, grad school is absolutely brutal. From what I can tell, only lawyers and med students have it worse - and the difference isn't as big as you'd guess.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

So now I'm trying to see if medical is my goal, or if psychology is where I want to be even though my parents are fully against it. I realize that at most I care for the well-being of others than anything else. I rather have the guy next to me feel a lot better about himself than my own well-being. Whether or not that's a good clue for psychology or medical is something I have to figure out.

Your parents are ridiculous - psych is a perfectly valid medical science, and one which can pay pretty well to boot. Sure, you're not making the $350k a year of a good open-heart surgeon, but on the other hand, you've got a much lower stress level and need not worry about 20-hour shifts and being woken up by your beeper at 3AM.

You may want to consider going into psychiatry, which is similar in many respects to an M.D. and trains you to perscribe medication, instead of psychology, which is largely research sicience and trains you to run rats through cages.

I might also note, however, that while the psychology major is pretty easy, grad school is absolutely brutal. From what I can tell, only lawyers and med students have it worse - and the difference isn't as big as you'd guess.

Psychiatry IS an MD. But if you're going to go down that route might as well just do psychology. States are allowing certain licensed psychologists to write scripts now. So you can do eevrything a psychiatrist does but w/ less training. Although i guess you probably wont be able to bill as high.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: her209
What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Wonder where the rest of my money went 🙂