Smart planning. I had zero time off. Fortunately moving post PhD I could crash with @caosnes in Leeds whilst doing a shittily-paid post-PhD but NotPostDoc job. Had zero savings though, still struggling to save tbh now that I'm renting solo and getting trains everywhere.
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I didn't realise when I came to study in the UK that doing a UK degree would deem me unemployable in Finland. I could get bar work probably.
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Ouch. Could you share why that is? I’m very interested and concerned with career opportunities for students on the international stage.
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UK degrees just aren't valued and a UK psychology degree is not recognised as a psychology degree. Almost everyone in Finland has a masters degree and while they do it they work, so when you come from having done an undergrad and an MSc in the UK with no working experience, you
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are miles behind everyone else. As in, people delay their studies to work in relevant jobs alongside. When you don't have the work experience it sounds like there's something wrong with you. You've also lost on important networking and the perception that the only reason anyone
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would go study abroad is because they couldn't get to a Finnish university lives strong.
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@GordonFeld -just replied here. You can get into UK universities so easily compared to Finnish ones that most think that is the only reason you'd ever go. And to be fair, for almost everyone I know who did a UK undergrad and who is Finnish, this was at least 70% of the reason -
Thanks for sharing the info! Such an annoyance that EU countries would not accept each other's degrees!
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Well it's different because in Finland you'd do a masters which would qualify you to practice clinical psych, in the UK you need a PhD for it. I understand it in that the systems are so different, a Finnish masters has much wider scope than a UK one
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