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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone pushing stem majors when there is a critical shortage of mental health professionals in this country.(Following up on my earlier post about teachers and health care professionals)

Can we please work on training people for the jobs that are actually needed?[/quote]

You don't decide what's needed, the market does.

Psychiatrists are the top of the mental health professional, and they are  medical doctors.
You can also become PA or NP and concentrate on psychiatry.

These are in fact related to STEM in a way, in high demand, and compensated nicely.

Psychologists are usually PhDs.  You have to go through all that studying spending time and $$$, but the financial reward is relatively not great.
I think this profession is more suitable for kids with affluent family.

The rest are not so valuable.  
My kid looked into this option.   [/quote]

I think a lot of the things being pushed here as high paying careers are GROSSLY overpaid.

I don't have a say in the matter, obviously (don't even get me started on our market system and what is "valued"), but I do know that there are shortages in the fields I have mentioned. Are they hard jobs? YES. But they are desperately needed. Who is going to teach your kids to get them into these colleges if no one goes into education? Who is going to deal with the ever growing percentage of people in this country with mental health issues? Who is going to work with and treat the physical problems of our rapidly aging population?

Our priorities are so screwed up and so many people just decide that money is everything.[/quote]

Typical DCUM. Constantly bleating about teachers and the availability of mental health treatment, but god forbid their kids go into one of those fields. [/quote]

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