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Originally Posted by 33girl
I think that's an issue with your degree in particular, not with degrees in general. Some degrees are like that. That's not a new thing - one of my sisters (20 years ago) was a psych major and she knew going in she'd have to get a master's to get ANYWHERE in her field.
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I agree. There are some majors where it is obvious what your career path will be (nursing, accounting, teaching, engineering) and then there are majors that, when I hear them, I think "And what are you going to BE when you grow up?"
There are pros and cons to both. For instance, after being an Occupational Therapist for 13 years I decided it was time to do something else. It required major re-training and now work on a Master's in a completely different field to keep moving forward. I was almost too specialized and it left me no other options, really. The proverbial "they" say that the average person has 3 careers over his/her lifetime now. Usually, that's going to require some major re-training. Even now, while I'm specializing in an IT field, I'm thinking about what I think my 3rd career will be.
And, I initially started working on a Master's in Clinical Psych 20 years ago and was realizing while working on it that without a PhD, I still wasn't really going to get to my end goal.
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