Should I take: IB Psychology or IB Philosophy

Question

Im looking for opinions please :) & why

Which one is generally easier?

Answer 1

Take psych!  I went through the IB program and took it, it's way easy, and the IB test is easy too.  Plus, it's often a hard class in college so get the credit out of the way while you can.

Answer 2

Take Psychology.

Answer 3

What is your end goal?

Unless you intend to become a teacher, both are utterly worthless. If you are working toward building a career that will lead to making decent money, then avoid university and go learn about the working world by... WORKING.

If you were studying medicine, engineering, law, chemistry... I would say, "go for it." But a Psych or Philo degree is just a waste of four very important years of your life. At the end of the degree you get to start from scratch at exactly the point where you are now -- unless, of course, you become a teacher.

But is a teaching career (secure but not overly well paid) really worth the four years (of non-transferable, ie. worthless, knowledge) out of your life, when you could equally well apprentice in a blue-collar job and earn some decent money at the same time? At the end of your blue-collar apprenticeship, you have a marketable skill -- and much more highly paid than office work! So, what will you have at the end of the four-year Psych degree? (Hopefully not student loan debt...!)

I have a B.A. (honors) in Psych (majored in Psych and minored in Philosophy) and would happily give up the degree to get those four years back. The best jobs today all involve practical, hands-on, skilled knowledge. Not "I spent four years reading books that I will never reference in real life" knowledge.

By the way, I know what I'm talking about -- most of my adult life I've earned pretty good money (>100k). Then I started a mineral exploration company that made extremely good money. All of that NO THANKS to my wasted four years. If I had skipped university and gone straight into an apprenticeship, I would have retired long ago.

But if you're set on that idea: Psych is easier. Philosophy is a lot more writing and a LOT more reading. Psych still involves a lot of reading (this *is* university), but also involves conducting experiments and allows you to be more creative. Be warned: you need *at least* a Master's degree to be employable in either field. If you apprenticed in a trade, you would have paid off half of a house by the time you're done your schooling. From that point on, you'll be working at HALF (or less) what someone in the blue-collar trades (or sales, or other industry) would be making at the same age.

If you're looking for the money? Sales. It's all about sales. Every business lives or dies by its sales -- that is the *only* profit-center in a business. Every other job is "overhead." Guess who gets paid more?

In every small business, the CEO's primary job is . . . the BIG sales. Directing the company, yes... but it's all about collecting money -- and that's called "sales."