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I need some help figuring out what to do next...

I've essentially finished my bachelor's degree (well just waiting for final results so fingers crossed) and I don't know what the heck I want to do with my life now. I want to do something that involves helping people but I don't know what. I majored in psych for my bachelors so I could go on to do 4th year equivalent of psych (wouldn't make it into honours lol but I could do a post grad diploma) but I'm not sure if that's what I want in my heart of hearts. I don't think I want to become the classic picture of a clinical psychologist- I want to do something that's more than just talking to people all day and writing notes etc. I want to do a bunch of things so it's not just the same thing all the time? And I want to constantly be learning new stuff? But I do like psychology. And I do feel I want to help people. Like I've considered other allied health roles like OT or even nursing but I think I'm too squeamish for nursing lol.

 

So does anyone have any advice for me? 😅 If you've studied psych or any allied health stuff I would love to hear what they've been like. I've never done any kind of placement because psych is like that, you don't do placement until like 5th year and I don't want to go through all that to find out I don't like it. Has anyone done placement in the allied health/psych field?

 

I'm also considering maybe I could do like peer support idk

 

Also we do have a problem in that I have quite bad social anxiety 😅 so can't really talk to people in person so well. And also I'm not really mentally in a great place but it seems like that's here to stay and I just have to manage it.

 

Also I don't think I'm very good with the whole 'empathy' thing.. Which seems quite important if I want to do any of those things. I feel like I'm a bitter person deep down cause I haven't worked through stuff and it would be a bad idea for me to try and help people.. But like idk people say I do have empathy. It's really weird.

 

Anyway... advice with figuring out what I want to do would be appreciated 🙂 Thanks!

 

edit: Also I don't know if I want to go straight into more study.. I would rather work a bit but I don't have enough qualifications to do anything in the field I studied in. I've never really had a proper job so maybe I could try and find work in retail or something while I figure stuff out. Idk

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