Should I go for a long career/degree in Psychology even though I am 28?

OK. I'm like a Freelance Artist and writer by profession, needless to say this **** ain't working out. At one point things were going good, I was near being published... my art started to get recognition and in a flash it all came to nothing. It was entirely out of my control, but to make a long story short people all of a sudden changed their minds and went in other directions. This really got to me and ever since I can't even do art anymore.

So it got me thinking, all this time I wasted, I'm 28 years old now and all the work I did, I have pretty much nothing to show for it. So now I'm like, okay maybe I should just go to college/university even though I stubbornly don't want too. I have been thinking, what can I do? What careers would be the best options. To be honest, my writings could be said to be "esoteric psychology". I am very much so a man of the thinking of Carl Jung and G.I. Gurdjieff/P.D. Ouspensky, but individual to myself. Now with such interest, one would think, AHH psychology is where you should major. To be honest I would really do this, out of the things I see, my attention moves to psychology. The problem is for this type of field, it is only worthwhile if you are willing to continue on beyond the associate degree ... heck it may really only pay off if you go all the way up to get your doctorate. I have been told by different people that I shouldn't care about the time it will take, with my type of mind and vision, they could see me as a professor. But I am 28 years old ...

I really do have an aim that goes beyond just making money, I just wish I had discovered these things when I was 18/17. But what can you do, took 10 years of learning and growing to see what I need to do.

Thoughts on this confused state I am in?

Anonymous2011-04-06T09:26:51Z

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I think you're giving up too easily on the career path you started on. Its okay to change careers but make sure its what you really want to do and you aren't doing it on a whim. Its easy to get frustrated with art and just give up but maybe you should reexamine your marketing strategies and get more serious with your passion. If art really is your passion then you should do it because it will make you happy in the long run.

You're right about psychology. It takes a lot of schooling, money, dedication and time. If you really don't think your career as an artist is working for you, you might try just going to a community college and taking a few classes (maybe a psychology class, and an english class) to see if its really what you expected it to be before getting a loan out and jumping in full force. It may also be worthwhile to go to an art class at your community college so at least your producing some work while experimenting with what you want. You can have all the "vision" you want and an amazing mind, but its not going to help you much in college if you can't show up to class on time, ask for help when you need it, read thoroughly and study hard. If you have trouble in community college, a university might not be for you.

strpenta2011-04-06T12:01:04Z

You're only 28?! If I were you, I'd go for it and keep doing art on the side...there are Art Therapy positions, too.

willert2016-11-06T15:16:17Z

whats up i'm an artist too and that i think of approximately transforming into to be a psychotherapist in the Jungian custom although that's costly and takes a protracted time to coach. additionally psychology classes are relatively medical and human beings purely truly start up finding at Jung etc at placed up grad point or maybe then Carl Jung, G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky etc those every person isn't taken heavily via expert psychologists in any respect. maximum psychologists do issues like administer tests to make sure if a newborn has dyslexia etc they don't look to be in contact in the esoteric. in recent times human beings desire the fast restore of cognative behavioural medical care and are not interested in targets etc. What approximately doing a placed up grad in paintings medical care? Or doing a placed up grad in simple terms in paintings or another humanities the place you may detect your pastime in the paintings of Jung etc or you should coach as a psychotherapist look into psychosynthasis! i don't think of you're too previous to retrain yet I do think of you would be disapointed in psychology if esoteric psychology is what you opt to look into because it truly is not taken heavily in that feild. additionally as an artist myself i be attentive to that's confusing to maintain going yet remember you're actually not doing it for funds or repute yet for the prospect to precise youself. additionally a Phd would be a mistake. I continuously needed to do one yet in reality that's rather costly. in the previous it grew to become into mandatory to pass into academia yet now coaching is being squeezed tremendously non technology and engineering matters so there are fewer and much less coaching oppertunities and extra and extra human beings desirous to tutor so which you're able to desire to be brutally elementary with your self approximately your skills. If an certainly proffessor is saying wow you should be an educational then it is powerful feed returned if it truly is in simple terms human beings you be attentive to then take that with a pinch of salt. With advances in sciene too every person is in simple terms much less into esoteric psychology. it truly is greater of a sparkling age self progression concern.

Anonymous2011-04-06T09:09:25Z

Go for it. A degree would help you provide for yourself, and psychology is the closest to what you do.