Should I really study naturopathy?

Question: Should I really study naturopathy?
Hi, I am an 18 year old male and next year I plan to do a Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy). It is a 4 year degree that I think qualifies you above regular Advanced Diploma graduates. However I am not sure if this is the career I will settle in, really I am not very scientific and like humanities. I was first engaged in natural health a year ago when I first visited a health food store and got some supplements to help with my depression/anxiety. Needless to state I didn’t really notice an effect but I kept returning to health shops and trying new things like herbs, teas and minerals in order to heal my acne and stress. Before I was involved in such things I already knew some things about the world and in particular the deliberate evil of conventional medicine. I don’t know how to describe myself? – skeptic, conspiracy theorist? Whatever, the point is I was all into ‘that stuff’ and so I readily was interested in natural health and started looking into it after the health shop visit. A few months ago I discovered the blood type diet and had my first consultation with a naturopath. Since the begin of this year I have been considering studying natural health.

But what will I really do with a degree in science? Even though naturopathy is my thing, I am not seeing myself sitting down in a white lab coat in a clinic speaking with clients etc. I want to help people, especially those afflicted/following conventional medicine, but I don’t see myself in the bedside manner position. I am really really keen to get a job in a health food store (I have cultured a love of these shops – love the atmosphere, and breeziness and haze of the workers (always female though), and seeing regular people come into the shop and look for something natural to help them). But the managers state they only hire people studying naturopathy, etc…

I don’t know – I seem to have lost touch with the humanities subjects since the begin of the year. I want to be a fiction writer but not as a profession, just off-side. Yet what else could you do with a naturopathy degree? What would you study post grad?

Best answer:

Answer by dave
Naturopathy has tiny if anything to do with science. If you’re not very scientific then you should find it easy.

You’d be superior off going for a degree in a subject where you’re more likely to be ready to get a job at the end of it. It’s a lot of time and effort to do a degree if you’re just going to spend your time afterwards stacking shelves and serving customers!

An hour with a career advisor might be a good theory to see what your options are. Enough people spend 3-4 years studying a subject then struggle to get work because they find their degree as good as worthless.

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