career choices

CAREER RESEARCH PROJECT Up until recently I did not know what I wanted to do with my life. I was going to school but I really had no idea what I wanted to study. Recently, after contemplating multiple career choices, I have decided that I want to become a psychologist. Psychologists study the human mind and human behavior. Like other scientists, psychologists make hypothesis and then perform experiments to test these assumptions. Their research methods …

…ten. Employment of psychologists is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all other occupations through 2008. People holding doctorates from respected universities should have particularly good opportunities. Also psychologists with a computer background should do especially well in the future. The average annual income of psychologists as of 1998 was $48,050. Psychologists just getting into the field with a degree can expect to start around $20,600. Psychologists with some experience can make about $66,800 a year.