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Delusions from College to Work

Blessed are the days, when you are Young and Naive!

Age 19: Psychology is so cool. You don't need to mug it up. You just happen to have stored in long term memory, all Freudian concepts, involuntarily, by the time you finish graduation. You think, it is such a perfect vocational course. The only one in humanities that makes you job ready! Go on laugh now, I know what you are thinking! I couldn't help it either. Like I said, blessed are those days, when you were young and naive.

Age 22: Getting in those prestigious Hospitals specializing in mental health seems ridiculously competitive. You wonder if you have a chance against the remaining 9,99,999 applicants to MA Psychology.

Age 25: MA in Psychology seems to have turned your clear milk like mind into curd! Clearly not what you had expected, after having invested 5 bloody years into college education! You cannot seem to understand how saving the mental equilibrium of others is a reliable livelihood source, considering, it churns up your own mental equilibrium.

Age 32: Applying for jobs in Counselling comes as a rude shock to the those approaching middle age.  Capable of sending even the best trained counselors to the insanity ward for rehab and definitely into poverty! Why? Are you still asking why? See the job advert below :)

Counselors wanted

Age : 30-35
Education: MA Psychology,  M Phil desirable from a prestigious college
Salary: INR 15,000
Work days: Mon - Sat
Duration: 9.30 am -7.30 pm

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