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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe not exactly a "prestige job" but highly respected:

Staff Psychologist within the counseling center of an elite University. The work is very rewarding. Everyone has an advanced level degree, in most cases a doctorate. Looks great on a resume. Pay is crap, though. Salaries start at 40-60k and rarely climb above $80k.The saving grace is that the hours typically aren't bad so many of us supplement with private practice.[/quote]

How is this highly respected, exactly? I work at a university and I don't even have a clue how many/who the counselors are.

I think it may be respected in your circle, but that's not at all a "prestige" job. [/quote]

Um, okay. I didn't say it was a prestige job. I guess I naively assumed that a job requiring a PhD that entails years of clinical training would be highly respected. Guess you told me otherwise. Good to know.[/quote]

I'm a psychologist (PhD), too, and thanks to the APA, respect for the profession has really eroded.  [b]And it's hard to argue with that when anyone can become a "psychologist." [/b] [/quote]

Really? Anyone can become a psychologist? Not to derail this thread but that's hardly true. But thanks for undermining the profession even further with hyperbolic generalities.[/quote]

PhD poster is not me (PP who responded that I work at a university here).

You seem awfully bent out of shape for someone in the mental health field. I didn't say it wasn't a valuable profession (neither did PhD PP), but that it's not a prestige profession. It's not a profession people pursue to brag about, in other words.

You might want to sit down with one of your colleagues to talk through what is bothering you so much that you are overreacting to comments on the internet with catastrophizing and negative assumptions.[/quote]

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