I really need help with my pursuit of I/O Psych
To give some context over why I’m making this post, I’ve just graduated from my psychology undergrad program at penn state Lehigh valley. I was originally an IST major going in, but then swapped to psychology with a business option (which was the next thing I felt I was the most passionate in) after feeling like the coding was getting too complicated for me to handle. I was working part-time for retail while taking that undergrad degree. My junior year of undergrad I heard about how I could take a masters degree that didn’t require a phd or beyond and had very good earning potential, so I had an interest in I/O psychology at the time.
I just graduated from my undergrad program and went straight into an I/O psychology masters at West Chester. I’m also a commuter and am not staying on campus (which has proved a challenge itself so far).
I really want some help/advice because I feel like I’m struggling to understand what it is that I want to pursue and what I have to pursue said thing. It makes me wish that I either took at least a gap year to understand myself more to see what it is that I like, or to take an online program since driving to West Chester is really stressing me out.
This next part isn’t as I/O related, but it is still important. Life has been hitting me quite hard recently, and having just left my cozy and close undergrad campus has left me in literal tears, and I miss it soo much. I also feel extremely pressured into having an idea of my job right now and that I have no time left to explore my options having jumped straight into a masters program. There aren’t a lot of people in my life that can give me actual advice on what to do, making this situation even harder for me to handle.
Would anyone give me some advice on what they did and how they went about doing it (internships/jobs), or could maybe suggest another course of action that I could take?
Thank you for reading this far if you have