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So let's say that you are a professional psychology student and you know that you want an academic or some kind of a career in psychology and you know that you don't want it to be academic.
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So the idea of sitting with books all day and the idea of being with a bunch of researchers really makes you on.
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You are not about that life.
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Maybe what you want to do instead is focus more on therapeutic skills.
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You want to talk to other people and you want to make sure.
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That they feel good about themselves and that they're living their own best lives.
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If this is what you want to do, then what exactly could you spend time doing? a traditional route in psychology, especially if you wanted to be a researcher or work in academia or work with industry, requires some kind of a phd or a degree, a doctorate in philosophy.
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In this type of program, you work on something called your dissertation.
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Which is a huge body of research that shows that you know how to be a professional researcher...