Hi, Today I'm talking about why I'm studying Psychology.
When I was 16, I had not decided what I would like to be after the secundary. I had two options on my mind: to be an army officer or to be a psychologist.
My father and my brother are army soldiers, and I thought that it could like to me. My father always said: "Jorge, only you must to decide. You can do anything you want, but you have only one chance".
I did the army service when I was in 3rd grade, some saturdays of the year. But I didn't like this. I wasn't good to follow the orders of my superiors in mechanic way. For this, I deleted this option of my mind. Still, I did a good job, and now I'm a reservist sergeant.
I decided to study psychology because I like to think and to analize the human behavior and feelings. I have always dedicated much time to do this, and I needed to put in order my ideas and to summarise them. The best way was to study psychology in one of the best chilean universities.
A psychologist can contribute to society in many ways, not only in the health area: working in schools and improving the educational system, doing school programs to enable children to attain maximum achievement and adjustment; helping in the selection, placement, and promotion of the personnel in differents organizations, recommending changes to increase efficiency and decrease accident rate; investigating social behavior and colaborating to the empowerment of communities and people. In the university we can develop differents habilities and we can learn to use many tools that we could to need in the future.
Personally, I prefeer the Social Psychology, also called Community Psichology, and the Educational Psychology, because I would like to work with several people at once.
In the future, I will need to be very empathic, observer, innovator and to have much tolerance for frustration, also I will need to manage knowledge in application of many psychological tests and knowledge in the relationship and educational areas.
I hope to do my best job, and you also do your best job in your favorite area.My father and my brother are army soldiers, and I thought that it could like to me. My father always said: "Jorge, only you must to decide. You can do anything you want, but you have only one chance".
I did the army service when I was in 3rd grade, some saturdays of the year. But I didn't like this. I wasn't good to follow the orders of my superiors in mechanic way. For this, I deleted this option of my mind. Still, I did a good job, and now I'm a reservist sergeant.
I decided to study psychology because I like to think and to analize the human behavior and feelings. I have always dedicated much time to do this, and I needed to put in order my ideas and to summarise them. The best way was to study psychology in one of the best chilean universities.
A psychologist can contribute to society in many ways, not only in the health area: working in schools and improving the educational system, doing school programs to enable children to attain maximum achievement and adjustment; helping in the selection, placement, and promotion of the personnel in differents organizations, recommending changes to increase efficiency and decrease accident rate; investigating social behavior and colaborating to the empowerment of communities and people. In the university we can develop differents habilities and we can learn to use many tools that we could to need in the future.
Personally, I prefeer the Social Psychology, also called Community Psichology, and the Educational Psychology, because I would like to work with several people at once.
In the future, I will need to be very empathic, observer, innovator and to have much tolerance for frustration, also I will need to manage knowledge in application of many psychological tests and knowledge in the relationship and educational areas.
Take care!