In the early days of being a psychologist, I was answering dozens of messages completely for free. I was active on the internet forums and also sometimes provided private psychological services. Since then, I am not surprised when I come across people, who don't do anything for free.

One day, on one of the women's forum, I dared to answer the thread of the lady who was looking for free psychological services. I was immediately shamed for the alleged rapacity and aversion to any action without monetary gratification. The allegations were all the more absurd that I was active on this forum for a long time. I was formulating answers and responding to the letters free of charge.

After this situation, I was forever cured of the charity. Standard psychologist fate and I could write more stories like these.

And now it will be about the money, that supposedly can't buy happiness. I feel sorry for the people, for who the money doesn't give happiness (For me it give, I admit), and I wonder why they work three jobs and obsessively do shopping every day in various markets, galleries and other similar temples of wild and unrestrained consumption. Perhaps not everything is for sale. I think that almost everything is in one way or another. And I'll say that for the money you can buy the most beautiful thing in the world. This thing is free time.

While studying psychology, to my distress, I noticed that my profession have poor prospects, primarily financial. People don't want to pay for the psychological services, even despite the fact that over the last few years they were watching various American films, in which everyone has "his psychoanalyst," and in every other tv show there is an inspired, with a mandatory beard and glasses, telling incredible nonsense, effeminate klutz with a psychology degree. In my opinion, it is mainly because the psychological services are wholly immaterial and uncountable and almost entirely immeasurable.

The psychologist does not offer a product that you can weigh, measure and price based on the market prices. He gets usually paid for his time, and you can't put time in your pocket, bag, or a wallet. And for the immaterial goods, people simply don't want to pay. On the other hand, they spend a lot of money for the Church's spells, quite willingly and generously.

The profession of psychologist usually doesn't portend much financial hope. This is why I think that the trend of studying psychology is very strange, but this phenomenon is of course explainable. Since I am involved in psychology, everywhere I hear empty agonizing how necessary and important is this profession. **Interestingly, the job of a psychologist is needed and important until there is time to pay for the service. **

In the belief of many people, a psychologist is a vocation, and a lot of customers does not feel the obligation to regulate specific charges for the provided services, and sometimes he meets with hate from people who are expecting free services. Known to me, professionally active psychologists usually work in parallel in several places. The same was for me, for a few years I worked at the same time in a hospital, clinic of the industrial psychology, for the court as an expert and sometimes with patients privately. As a result, such work does not let me earn some big money. In the case of most psychologists, it is simply a necessity, because then income is enough to be able to live on a decent level, which doesn't mean that in a field of psychology you cannot earn real money. You can do very well, but very few succeed.

For years I was wondering why people are happy to pay technicians, bricklayers, priests, and carpenters, but much less willingly psychologists. As I mentioned, I associate this effect primarily with specific, immaterial nature of psychological services.

Another issue can be (in my opinion in many situations plausible) belief in the low effectiveness of the psychological influence, however, in this situation, you should not at all ask a psychologist for help or support. Interestingly, priest or shaman who is telling unbelievably stupid things earn quite good, and no one question his right to his compensation, and people on the religious witchcraft and cults seem to spend a large part of their income.

In a society which considers itself a civilized one, it is fitting to be aware that the profession of a psychologist is a difficult one and often very time-consuming. Specialist in psychology, after years of expensive training and experience, is investing the time, energy and effort in the same way as any other professional and should be remunerated as one.

It's important to keep in mind that psychological services are not in any way similar to repairing a car or tunning the accordion. Usually getting to the particular effect takes more time than replacement of a leaking pipe under the sink.

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