The ups and downs of indecision

I graduated from school in 2003. Ten years ago. Wow! When I say it, sounds like long time ago, but when I think about it, I feel that ten years are nothing (well, Gardel realized that 20 years are nothing, so I’m probably right).

When I finished school, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a teacher, so I did the PSU and I could go to the university I wanted: UMCE, as known as “Pedagógico”, among other nicknames. I began in 2004. After varied and interesting practical experiences in different educational institutions, I definitely left university. My main reason to do that was my deeply frustration and disappointment about teaching.  Teachers are intellectually mutilated and aggressively censored when they don’t want to fit to programs provided by the government, in their eagerness to train young women and men with reflexive and critical attitude about social reality.

Later, I started working in Movistar, where I remained for the next six years. I decided to go back to university in 2011, so I took some courses in pre-university, in order to prepare my retaking of PSU. At that moment, I was determined to study Psychology, mainly because I liked the area when I was studying Pedagogy. In a certain way, I think I still have the hope of being a contribution to the transformation of society, for the wellbeing of all its members.

The psychologists can create good instances of social interventions. In my case, I believe in a Psychology that may have a scientific development, because pure science, in its most basic intention, is the cradle of knowledge production. Obviously, scientific practice has been victim of distortions and it has been misused in different moments of human history. But this can also be modified if we take charge of what we are studying and we use it to let the people know how they are victims of social control. I think that an important challenge of our discipline today is to disseminate the information obtained from researches in a proper and massive way, not leave it in labs.

Once more, sorry for the extended post.

Have a great week! J