Sorry, your blush reflex disqualifies you from that position.

I am now four weeks back into school, and I have already discovered several things about my future plans that I did not know.

1) Organizational Psychology is not for me. I don't care how many times you throw terms "behavioral" or "cognitive functioning" around, this is NOT Psychology. All I have learned this semester is that when you try to train people, they are not going to listen to you, mostly because they are all looking for a higher-paying job anyway. Unless, of course, you spend millions turning all corporate training into super-fun video games, which tricks people into paying attention. Oh, and you always must trick people into thinking they have advanced, even when they haven't, or else they will be sad and leave for higher paying jobs when you have already spent millions training them. Seriously, that is what I am taking away from this particular learning experience. Organizational Psychologists, ye are saints!

2) Sex therapist? OK, first let me ask you this. Is there some sort of medical procedure I could undergo to fry off the blood vessels in my face to prevent blushing? Clearly, I am not meant to talk to people about their erectile dysfunction or undying love for a vacuum cleaner, because you could have fried an egg on my face when I read that chapter. I mean, I blush when someone asks me where I bought my jeans, what would happen if a patient asked me where to buy a vibrator??? When presented with a case study asking 1) What diagnosis would be given and 2) What treatment options should be tried, it took everything in me just to TYPE, "To help overcome her inhibitions about sex, patient X should try saying or screaming aloud how she feels during arousal." Yup, see? I am blushing now. While interesting, this could not be a future career.

3) I always thought that I would be a child psychologist, for many reasons. Drawing from my own experiences as a child, I know there is a great need for people to help those who can not help themselves. Then, as I worked more and more with people in all stages of grief over their pets- diagnosis to treatment to eventual death of this beloved family member, I thought, "This might be for me- this could be an area where I could really help someone." And then, mental illness in general is just so fascinating to me, and people suffer so greatly from it, perhaps I should seek a general counseling degree, where I can help everyone!
And then I read a chapter about behavioral medicine, and am further fascinated. Doubling the lifespan of cancer patients through group therapy? It really happened, in replicated studies! Integrating physiological, psychological and behavioral factors has lead to some very cool, very helpful treatments- and the field is growing. How cool is that???

It seems like the more I 'know' what I want, the less I am actually sure of. Can't I just be everything???