Hmm, you mean other than as a McDonalds counter-person?
No, generally speaking, and with the competiton present today, you need a teaching certificate, at the very minimum, to teach in a public highschool.
Many states also require a Masters Degree to get hired as a teacher or at least you must persue one part time as a condition of employment.
But you can teach in a non-public school, provding that you actually have some noteworthy skill worth teching.
Getting a BS in psych hardly seems like rocket science though, and you really don't know enough to teach it, without at least a lot of work experience.
Most psych majors who want to work in the field get theit Masters degree at the least, and with a Masters you can teach in public schools and colleges, and community colleges are always looking for good teachers, though the salaries are low.
You should have thought about what you want to work as before you graduated with a virtually useless degree. An engineer with a BS can find work easily, psych and English BS majors get jobs as receptionists. However, if its any consolation, they are intellegent receptionists.
You can go into private practice in some fields and earn a living that way. You will not be qualified to call yourself a Psychologist but you can open a clinic to help people quit smoking, for instance.
One sure bet for Psych BS grads is to learn hypnotism and practice it for smoking, overeating, alcoholism..,patients. Or do marriage counceling.
Most of these kinds of jobs do not require any special licensing or professional credentials to enter and many do very well. The guy who founded EST, or Scientology were very successful, maybe you cna do the same. Hey, here;s an idea, why not go and start a Fantasy Island Resort, a psych health spa for adults? Now that might be interesting, and profitable too.
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