Adventures on Turtle Island

hahahaha @CheerBear you familiar with star-trek? Data in is it next generation? The robot dude who analyses data? There.. me... INTP! 😛 So data here, analyse = me in element yes! But I must log off. Cooking Tacos for dinner then getting my story into it's new medium. Out of my head into some words.

So catch you all later... and hopefully I will have something about our island mis/adventure ready for tomorrow. 🙂 Wish me luck! and don't expect too much everyone! 😄

@CheerBear ROFL. Did you do social work rather than psych? That's very funny!!!! My awesome uni counsellor (K) was a social worker and she is the best counsellor EVER. She was interesting in that she did psych in her undergrad and then shifted into social work. I think this gave her a very well-rounded approach. I have known a couple of other social workers and I definitely think they are more useful in a lot of ways than most psychologists. Having said that, I think a GOOD psychologist can be invaluable. I know that a couple of people I met through my degree have gone on to be excellent psychologists.

@CheerBear To be honest, I wouldn't recommend that anyone become a psychologist now. The profession is really shooting itself in the foot. It is now so ridiculously difficult to become a psychologist, it just isn't worth it. I knew someone who was doing her psych internship in the public health system. She was performing exactly the same role for exactly the same money as a social worker, but she had to jump through all the hoops of the internship while the social workers were already done and dusted in terms of their qualifications. The fact that social workers can now get the medicare rebate like psychologists can, has put another nail in the coffin for psychology.

Psychology as a profession likes to see itself as "better" than other professions like social work because it is "scientific". However, I don't know a single practicing psychologist who either reads or contributes to the peer reviewed literature, and none of them remember any of the inferential statistics stuff that forms such a huge part of the psych degree. The reason I have first class honours is that I happen to be very good at inferential statistics. The relevance of that to actually being a psychologist...er...zero!!!

I'm going to head off now. Night @CheerBear @TheVorticon. I hope to see you at Friday Feast tomorrow night - you too @Spookytookims and @Former-Member .

good night @Phoenix_Rising

@TheVorticon... you may have special guest appearances on the island.. not sure yet.. but if you show up, don't be surprised 😛 just sayin'