TheIndustrialClinician

Must I/O psychologists work in corporate or business environments, or can they find employment in institutions such as schools, hospitals, or anywhere else that is less typical?

Make whatever you enjoy the most your plan. Don't just bounce around from one thing to another because your anxiety tells you that you won't be able to do one of them.

Very silly question for a grown man to be asking lol, but any advice? If you took on this task, how did you go about achieving your goal?

I am entering my final year of undergraduate psychology here in Canada and although I always believed I would know what I wanted to do by now, I am still completely torn between clinical psychology and industrial/organizational psychology . I love helping people, especially when that help is greatly needed, but I fear that if I attempt to go the clinical route and it doesn't work out (i.e., I do not get accepted anywhere) I will end up wasting a few years of my life that I could have been chipping away at a MA/PhD in I/O psychology. I would say I probably find clinical to be more interesting than I/O (although I/O is pretty cool), but I have heard that I/O psychologists can make a very good living here in Canada.. Does anyone know if this is true? Something that really scares me about clinical is the fact that one has to write both the subject and general GRE tests... These kinds of tests scare me because I have a few learning disabilities that make them a living hell for me lol. Through three years of undergraduate, my GPA is around 3.9, I started getting some experience helping profs in the labs last year and I'm hoping to get more this year, and I will be able to get awesome LORs. I was wondering if someone(s) could give me their opinion on: 1.) Will my grades be high enough to make me competitive for MA/PhD programs in Canada for industrial or clinical? 2.) What would you do to try and figure out whether you should do clinical or I/O? 3.) Are the GRE's as scary as they sound... 4.) How is the pay for a clinical psychologist vs. an I/O psychologist? To be honest, I've never concerned myself much with money or salaries, but I think it would be nice to know always (because I don't always trust what I read online). Thanks to everyone who read this,