Today, my friend Kate and I were helping build a playground. Halfway through, a construction worker asked where we go to school. I told him we graduated and proudly held degrees in Psych. The construction worker stopped mid-dig, glanced at us sadly, and said, "Yeah, that's what my degree is in too." FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, a customer at the fast-food joint I work at gave me a pitying look and asked, "How's that liberal arts degree treating ya?" FML
Today, I recently graduated from high school and I went to a college party. I met these girls and told them I graduated college already, to sound cool. I then heard one of them say, "I went to middle school with you, and I was in your math class." FML
Today, I was sent to an elementary school for safety day. One of the dads was asking about my job, when I told him about the long hours and high stress involved. He turned to his son and said, "Now see why you stay in school?" I'm a paramedic. With a bachelor's degree. FML
Today, after over 30 years, I visited my home country. My nephew was driving us around, with my daughter in the backseat, and I was proudly telling him about her MBA in English and Communication. We passed by a mugging, and she went, "Did you just seed what I just sawed!?" Without looking at me, my nephew just went, "....a degree in what again?" FML
Today, I bumped into a former teacher, one who spent many many weeks helping me get into university so I could become a psychologist. I had to see the look of disappointment on her face when I told her I got pregnant freshman year, and became a stay at home mom with a part time job at Tesco’s. FML
Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML
Today, I was walking with a friend to tell him how excited I was for college and even motivating him to apply for the same school, until I found out later that I got rejected. FML
Today, I lost my job to a girl that graduated with the same bachelor's degree from the same college as me. She also got a master's in an unrelated field. I've been working there 7 months, and her master's in maths apparently makes her a better athletic trainer than me. FML
Today, it's the third time this year I was recommended to meet someone because we're "so smart, we'll get along." At dinner, this person complimented how I'd do great in their graduate course on data science. I helped develop the degree program. I can't believe I missed pinball for this. FML
Today, I was volunteering at a school, as I walked past the swings these two girls smiled and said "wow, you are so pretty!". I smiled back and said "awww, well thank you!." As I walked past I hear them laughing, "she actually believed us." FML
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Top comments
FrostyNorth 0
Unless you're going beyond a four-year degree, psych is useless. This shouldn't surprise you as more psych degrees are handed out than any other concentration last time I checked.
Jennika 0
You have to be willing to move where the job is. If you aren't willing to move, then yeah..you might end up there. I knew astrophys' and microbiologists working in an inking factory because they couldn't find jobs in the area.
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Comments (173)
jd254 2
hmmm... my sis is getting her psych degree, and her best friend is Kate... LISA is that you?
pancakelover 0
I have to agree with almost everyone on here. Psychology is one of those degrees you get when you just want a degree.
GR3453m0nk3y 4
this is the first fml to be in the 2 millions!!!! :D idk why thats so exciting
andydawg8891 0
@ 42 Psychology might be an area of study you just enter to get a degree. Art however..... art is a degree you get when you want people to laugh at you. sorry I couldn't resist that one.
paperfox_fml 0
"... proudly held degrees in psych." EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!
claiireee1 0
good luck going anywhere without a PhD in psych!
emodrew 0
Thank you #13...# 20 thats sooo wrong #13 thanksk
plexico 4
I guess you didn't realize that when you were building that playground, you weren't doing volunteer work -- you were doing post-graduate studies! :)
iTunesAddict 0
Um. I start at university this fall as a psych major. maybe ill just go with spanish instead! thanks for the heads up ;p
ArtsySwag 0
#21- Psych is not the easiest college course, trust me. I'm a Psychology major as well and a Bachelor's in it won't do you too good. The best bet is to obtain your PhD and get that research in (you'll make a lot of money w/ the grants you earn & what have you). Or, if you're not too keen on doing research, you can obtain a PsyD :), you'll be a doctor regardless but some people just hold people with a PhD higher :P. Don't let that get you down, maybe he didn't try hard enough to fulfill his aspirations and just settled (which isn't too bad since construction workers make A LOT of money).