You've probably already mentioned this before, but: what are you planning on doing with your life? I know you're interested in psychology, but you don't want to be a psychological researcher, do you?
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"A wise spellweaver always writes in pencil."
To make a long story short, I'm planning on being a pharmacist. I was originally looking to try to do something with psychology. Then I decided that I didn't like the looks of the economy. Now, I'm taking pre-pharmacy classes and psychology classes. Due to a bit of a scheduling quirk, getting a BA in psychology isn't going to make my pre-pharmacy period of time any longer, so I'm also planning on getting it, mostly out of personal interest.
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Fame is but a slow decay.
-Theodore Tilton
Hmm. I guess that's an appropriate combination. But what does being a pharmacist entail? What does one spend one's time doing? Not compounding drugs, right? And one doesn't see patients, either, right?
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"A wise spellweaver always writes in pencil."
I know some psychologists. Well, people who graduated with psychology. The job field is wretched over there, according to them, at least.
I know a pharmacist, too. Lots of schooling- he's still in school, I think. Started six or seven years ago. But it's a solid employment that you can rely on.
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Well, getting a bachelor's degree in psychology doesn't mean much. You may have noticed that psychology tends to be one of the majors selected by people who go to college for the sake of going to college. Typically, the only point at which a psychology major is challenged intellectually is in the mandatory statistics class, and the challenge there comes mostly from the fact that most psychology majors are mathematically incompetent. I'm not sure how psychology ended up as one of the wimpy generic liberal-arts majors, but I don't like it.
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"A wise spellweaver always writes in pencil."
My understanding is it's mostly handing out prescriptions, making sure proper instructions get relayed to patients for taking medication, and being sure that first, the prescription makes sense alone (like the doctor didn't slip up and assign an abnormally large dose), and secondly, that the various medications a person is taking aren't going to interact in a detrimental way. There's also the matter of keeping up with relevant laws and such.
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Fame is but a slow decay.
-Theodore Tilton