I’ve been dreading writing a blog about something like this, as it would mean I was terrifyingly close to the end of my degree. Help.<\/p>\n
I initially went into Psychology hoping it would lead to a career in Forensic Psychology. However, as soon as I got to uni I completely forgot about those plans and spent the next three years jumping between different areas of Psychology. With each new semester I would find myself really passionate about another topic. We study such a variety of topics, I found it so difficult to focus on one area.<\/p>\n
Now finally, at the end of my degree. after falling in love with many different areas of Psychology, I’ve realised that I’m still most passionate about Forensic Psychology.<\/p>\n
On the one hand it’s a relief to finally realise that this is what I want to do. But then on the other hand, I have very little relevant experience. I have experience in so many other areas but nothing forensic. I spent all of my time trying out areas I thought I might be interested in, I completely neglected to gain experience in the area I definitely knew I loved. My distress has not been helped by the fact that every postgraduate program I look at explicitly states that they want applicants to have relevant experience. Obviously I don’t have to go straight into postgrad study, I can work for a bit to gain experience… but I’m very aware that the path to being a chartered Forensic Psychologist is quite a long one. I have friends considering clinical psychology who are having the same issue (so if you’re thinking clinical or forensic, I would suggest getting as much experience as you possibly can very early on)<\/em>. You can find some really useful info on careers in psych here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I will keep you updated on my progress\/decisions as I get closer to the end of my degree, hopefully I can show you what it’s like making plans for after uni!<\/p>\n If you have any questions please leave a comment, message me on facebook, or follow me on twitter! Thanks guys \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I've been dreading writing a blog about something like this, as it would mean I was terrifyingly close to the end of my degree. Help. I initially went into Psychology […]","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[755,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-university-cy","category-third-year-cy"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}