I'm confused

I had the same desire, I was always attracted to psychology, I got the same answer from my father. I listened to him and at his persuasion I enrolled in economics..
I'm not sure if I chose well, I think I would have made a better choice if I had chosen what I was interested in...
I still have a great passion for psychology..
I think that psychology offers countless possibilities as far as possible jobs are concerned... Especially at this time when this profession is increasingly in demand.

Well .. you have to play some psychology here with your parents. First ask which field is promising according to them. And then weigh the merit of the field in terms of market value and analyze if you are qualified and have the passion for it. Then analyze how much they know about the field they are recommending by asking about career prospects, job opportunities, expected monthly income etc. Carefully record their recommendations, so you can then counter it for psychology. You can then place arguments about Psychology, using the script of their recommendation. That will put them in a corner. Also gauge whether they just undervalued psychology, just because you asked for it. Some parents have this attitude that children do not know how to decide for themselves, and it must be them to choose.

And as advice to you, you must first gauge yourself if you are cut up for psychology. From your traits, you can know that you are good in studying behaviors of people right from your childhood and you are someone known to be patient while handling situations. If you are, then you can go ahead and pursue. Psychology is an art, and not something that can be learnt. And as to job prospects, Counsellors are in great demand as hospitals, schools, colleges, big organization, all need counsellors. So its wrong to say that Psychologists don't have job opportunities.

Listen to your parents, there are many more opportunities in the sex industry…porn, onlyfans, prostitution or go stand in a window in Amsterdam

If your heart is set on psychology then by all means go for it! I am not an expert on the actual opportunity out there 4-5 years from now for a BS undergraduate, but I do know there is more if you earn a graduate degree. Best of course is a PhD. But you have to start somewhere. Maybe with a BS you could go into Human Resources or even federal law enforcement like the FBI. Just some ideas anyway.

my 2 cents: my uncle "forced" his daughter to study economy (which she didn't like) for the very same reasons. She wasted 2 years at university and then decided to quit and study the topic she liked the most! Now she has a job and she is happy!

I'm also in a similar situation rn. I think you should research about the job opportunities and convince your parents by showing them all the data that you can find. I wish you luck! Let's become future psychologists haha💛

One of the problems is there are an awful lot of people doing psychology and there is a lot of competition for places when you go into the workplace

You should better pursue what you feel passion for.
Psychology is amazing.
And will have an increasing job demmand in the future.

That's BS lol. Lots of job opportunities.
Depends what you wanna go into.

You should tell them that they're right and that you'll just smoke crack instead 😃

Social work is low paying too. But you have to follow your own path.

Your parents are wrong...

There are good jobs today that were trash jobs thirty years ago and amazing jobs thirty years ago that barely exist today.

Times change and so do in demand jobs.

Sometimes I wonder how my life may have been different had I gone to psychology instead of programming. It's not that I hate programming more than other work, but it gets stressful.