Oh god I don't know if I'm crying from the laughter or the pain.
Sorry, it's not your post, just the thought of going back to the careers centre at uni.
I'm a studying psych student. We fight for undergraduate positions like spinsters over the bride's bouquet, and what ones there are, go to people with more stats courses under their belt than me. I'm an aspiring clinician, and if Psychologists are considered science's janitors then I'd be thought of as the guy who has to clean out academia's flooded basement after every heavy rainfall.
I've been pointed to the uni careers office three times this year, and I've always gotten the same response. They shuffle their feet, pick at their nails, then point me at the job book, which is their equivalent of an internet terminal. It's hard enough studying the "soft science" and dealing with all the attendant snobbery, but finding undergrad jobs in the field is even harder, so hard that the university doesn't even try in fact. |
