Choise of Industrial psychology.

Psychology as speciality is becoming more and more popular. Psychologists are working in all possible ranges and levels. Begining with hospital's consultants up to industrial workers. One of the most popular subfield is industrial or organizational psychology. Why does so many contemporary psychologists are interested in this range?

First of all, it's usually the most profitable, well payed job, which guarantees you fixed salary, sometimes "spiced" with bonuses, and there you can make a lot of useful acquaintance . It's important to earn a lot, because money could be named as an engine of today's world and some meaningful contacts could become the bridge to your luck in the future. In industrial range you can meet a lot of influential and powerful people and you are always around the bussiness workers, lawyers etc, the most gainful and wealthful range.

Furthermore, you can work in more traditional workplace like office or bureau, you can allways communicate with your collegues and work in a team, in other words, to be socialy active. There are a lot of psychologists who loves their proffesion but don't want to work as a traditional and most known personal psychologist, so the best choise for them is industrial psychology.

On the other hand, organizational psychology is quite far away from a traditional conception of this proffesion. Industrial psychologists sometimes are more close to occupation than psychology and some of them loses their faces as psychologists. This i would consider the main disadvantage of organisational psichology.

All things considered, although there are advantages and disatvandages of working as an industrial psychologist, it's his/her's personal choice where to work. Psychology is needed everywhere and everyone can choose that field which is more close to them. There is nothing to loose :)