Psychologist
Overview: A psychologist is someone who studies human actions and their minds.  They study the human behavior.  To discover their information, they do experiments and administer personality, performance, aptitude, and intelligence tests.  Psychologists also do observations, interviews, questionnaires, clinical studies, and psychological surveys. There are some psychologists work at home and some that work with professional workers.
Schooling: To be a psychologist, you definitely want to go to collage.  You usually need to get a doctoral degree.  If you only have a bachelor's degree the chance of getting a job in this area is very limited.
Salary: As of March in 2002, the salary of a psychologists is from $47,484 to $63,858.
Job Opportunities: Psychologists use their knowledge in many careers, such as health and human services, management, education, law, and sports.

If you are interested in this career you may want to:

• talk to your guidance counselor
• study actions of your friends and parents (with their permission)
• listen in science classes
• study all different books about the human mind

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