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Originally Posted by RubyRae
I consider a psychologist a specialist and therefore deserving of higher pay just the same as a person has to pay more to see an ENT for ear problems compared to seeing a GP.
I believe,just as in any other profession,there are those that truly care and want to help others and those that are only in it for the money.
Do you wish you had chosen a different career?It sounds as if maybe you do.
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I said pretty much what I thought: my career is fine and what I wish to be doing, but the marketplace is warped and unreasonable, and I should be paid more for what I do whereas psychologists should be paid less for what they do.
I do not complacently say, "Oh well, that's the marketplace." Obviously, it's the way the marketplace works, but the marketplace isn't necessarily reasonable or logical, which is what I am pointing out.
I don't want to rip people off, which is essentially what I am accusing psychologists of doing. I do not wish I had become a psychologist.
There are wealthy lawyers, but a lot of lawyers do not earn more than $60,000 per year, and law school education is not tuition-free whereas I got a free tuition ride and scholarship for my PhD, so I do not have to pay off my educational debt whereas lawyers have to pay off their law school debt. Also, the lawyers I know work very hard, in contrast to psychologists. Whereas psychologists only seem to work M-F 9am-5pm, I know many lawyers who work all 7 days per week 9am to 7pm or to 9pm. Lawyers have a real work ethic, assuming they have clients.