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Re: Whatever, Let's Have A Goddamn Blog Thread, But Try And Keep It Reasonable, pt B

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Gilead:
Emaline this is for you.

Jimmy the Squid:
I still haven't found what I'm looking for out if I got accepted into the Honour's class for this year. I've spent the last four years studying psychology with the intention of getting my phD by the time I'm 35 and working as a sex and relationship therapist. In these four years it never really occurred to me that I might not realise this dream. I'm pretty sure if I had gotten in I would know by now and I have just realised that I don't have a plan B.

So guys, help me figure out what my backup plan is? I have no idea what I would want to do if I can't do what I wanted to.

Barmymoo:
Is there another route into that career? I know that for law, if you don't get a law degree you can go down the training route and it just takes a little longer. Perhaps you need to find someone who is already a therapist and grill them about how they managed it? But also don't give up hope on the honours programme, because schools are quite often completely useless at getting back to their applicants. I've been waiting since October to hear from one of the unis I've applied to, and I'd imagine that for higher level it takes even longer to decide. Good luck!

Blog thread, yesterday I was on my own in the house all day and I did a couple of hours of revision and made my own gnocchi (turns out I can cook!). In the evening I was meant to be going to see Mamma Mia! with mum in the village, because once a month there's a film shown on a projector screen in the village hall, only mum had a migraine so at the last minute we went and picked up one of my friends from town and she stayed over. Mamma Mia! is the funniest film I've ever seen. Watch it. I don't care if you don't like musicals. I don't care if you don't like Abba. Watch it. Everyone was laughing the whole way through and by the end we were all singing and clapping along and it was brilliant. Sometimes I love living in a small village where practically the whole population turns out to pay £2.50 to watch a film that's been out for months.

Anyhow my friend has gone home now and I've finished sorting vegetables for the Sunday roast and it is time to do some more work. I feel very productive; when I go back to work in two weeks I'm sure the feeling will fade again and I'll be back to manically busy and stressed, but it's nice for now.

tania:
jimmy, not sure how helpful this is but a master's degree in social work is much easier to get than a doctorate in clinical psychology. i don't know if you'll qualify to have your own practice but you can still find a lot of jobs involving counselling and therapy and working one on one with others. i am minoring in psychology and nearly everyone i know in my program who has decided they probably won't get into any schools for clinical psyc is taking this route instead. it's not a personal failure, it's just a ridiculously competitive program (over here, anyway) and always has been. also, over here at least, i think you can get in to most schools with any undergrad degree as long as it's in the social sciences.

Emaline:
Harold And Maude is on, and I am bawling my eyes out. Maude is dying! God damn you Cat Stevens.

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