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I just think they're making mistakes and don't get their thinking process. I pointed out that they need great students for these kinds of colleges, they are not getting people like me unless I have a shit ton of money which is hardly the case. Getting there is hard so you expect them to have a plan and do something that reward their hard work, discipline, intelligence and work ethic but feels wasted when you see the jobs they're ending up doing
You don’t have to get a job in the exact field your degree is in to make it worthwhile. Maybe they like the topics? >

Maybe. It's not really practical though. You make it harder on yourself to find a well paying job. And since you pay a shit ton of rent and everything why not use what you learn, if you learn anything at all and not just train just to remember writing an exam and then forgetting everything 1 day later >

I’m saying there is use and other jobs available with a psychology degree other than becoming a psychologist >

Like HR, coaching, maybe some marketing jobs would be happy to see it, or career advisors. And some workplaces just want you to have a degree, any degree >

French psychology student here. Here it's pretty different: there are no campus, so most of us have 1 to 2 hours of transport to reach the university (some just live pretty close). I'm one of the rare dudes in my uni (90% of girls I think). Also, everyone can attend psychology college here (speaking from my experience).
But what you need to know is that :
- psychology is a vast subject, so some people might not be psychologists or therapists, but what they're doing required some resource 
- lot of them wanna know about their own psychological issues
- here, 60% of the 1st year students nail their exams and proceed to continue their studies
At the end, I kinda agree that a lot of people aren't that really into psychology. >

Why do you feel this way? >

As Micheal Jeffery Jordan once said, stop it get some help >

I’ve known a lot of very successful people with psychology degrees, helps them in business >

Maybe they should have just sent to school for business then.
Like they wasted their time and money >

You know what Ronnie Coleman said Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift heavy ass weights
Everybody wanna study psychology but nobody wanna deal with crazy ass humans >

Ph.D in experimental psychology. Teaching and doing statistics for 40 years. >

Well, psychometry is basically statistics >

I’m so sick of this ultra-capitalist notion that the ONLY reason to pursue higher education is to get a job. Psychology is a very beneficial subject to know about and is naturally interesting to many people, that’s what’s important. >

Knowledge and education are two different things. They have a lot in common but the main difference is that education helps you with a job. You don't like how I have that as one of my priorities? >

This isn’t about you, you can have whatever priorities you want. But don’t hate on people who have different priorities.