First Job Application In 2 Years

Heya @Silenus

University can be so frustrating! My background is in teaching and I needed that piece of paper to enter a school - but did my real learning about the job as I was teaching.

Here is a link to the Cert IV in Mental health peer support work. Looks interesting.

Also as a FYI, this week's Career Chat is about interviews, if you're interested!

Hi Silenus,

I know what you mean.

I studied clinical psychology for two years, (after gaining a bachelor degree with honours in sociology, a total waste of time, except that I learned how to write English a bit better :)) but abandoned the studies because I did not see the relevance, it was mostly about science, medication and the brain as a machine 🙂

As you probably know, I am mostly for the kind of psychology of Freud, Maslow, and Carl Rogers, and those who believed in the person first and second the mental disorder. I do understand the importance of biological issues, the environment and the psychology of the mind all working together when it comes to a mental disorder. But what I studied was irrelevant to making people feel better, feel like people. In my opinion that is. Perhaps that is what they teach in the first three years in psychology and even so I think it is wrong.

But at the university I was at, a science driven University (increasingly the trend in all Universities) psychology was more like a doctor's degree as general practitioner than psychology as it should be.

The subjects that were most useful to me, were Philosophy, history and education, when I did the bachelor degree that is.

But as you say, education does not really prepare you well for a job. Everything is constantly changing and Universities are more like businesses, after money, than places that prepare people well for a better future. I think that somewhere along the way corruption has affected all areas of life. It is all corrupted by money and greed with a bit of good things here and there and good people, of course.

I agree that you have an ideal disposition for helping people, Silenus, you would be much valued in a mental health job.

@GonePirate good luck in your thinking about case studies ... some of the problem can be that the needs are so great that some people find it hard to put a boundary up .. so the peer worker .. might need to .. dunno .. never worked in the field, but read a bit ...

I applied to become a psych nurse when i was about 20. I passed a lot of the processes but told at the end that I would not be able to detach from people's issues as I divulged that my father had schizophrenia. I was very young and it was probably the right call, though I was devastated at the time. The truth is it has taken me 30 years to disentangle the medical words from the real life experiences of my close people.

I hope you get work .. Its a worth while challenge .. and very necessary.