Aestheticism...without trying to sound harsh, I think you have a lot of work to do on your own to figure out what you want to do before it will be helpful for us to give advice. You are kind of all over the place in terms of interests, understanding what jobs consist of, and even a realistic understanding of employment, etc.
As an example, you keep referencing wanting to be a psychologist because of the higher salary potential. But its not like the "title" gets you a salary boost. Higher salaries come because it opens up opportunities for other jobs that have higher salaries. If you don't want those jobs...that doesn't benefit you. To take an extreme example...if you want to work as a cashier, it makes little sense to get an MD because you hear neurosurgeons get paid fabulously and then go back to being a cashier. It doesn't work that way. Sorry if that sounds condescending, but I've just seen a number of threads where that point seems to be getting lost in the shuffle and I think its a critical one. Being a psychologist might get you a tiny bit more from insurance in some locations...but I'm not even convinced its enough to offset the opportunity cost in most cases. And for salaried positions (which seems to generally be what you are interested in as best I can tell?) the difference should be even more negligible since the employer will want to eat most of that relatively negligible difference.
Similarly, you seem wildly confused about what "research" even means. I can't tell if you "hate research" in the sense of running a lab, designing projects, writing grants, etc. or you are applying research to any sort of not-typical-undergrad-fluff coursework. As in "I hate learning about neuroscience concepts". A neuroanatomy course still has very little to do with the day-to-day activities of a neuropsychology researcher.
As another, academic advising and working in a clinic are generally different paths."Clinic" itself is about a million different paths. A college counseling center? A hospital clinic? Directing an in-house clinic in a doctoral program? I'm not sure I've ever met someone with both academic advising and clinical work as a primary job function. Certainly, many school psychologists and others have activities that are loosely related to academic advising. Folks working in training clinics certainly contribute to professional development and guiding trainees in a broad sense.
I think you first need to figure out what it is you actually want to do. Then figure out if it meets the salary requirements. If not, revise what you want to do or accept the difference. Right now it seems like you are trying to figure out how to do one thing, also do another unrelated thing, after having been trained in a 3rd thing because you didn't like the training for A and B, and end up getting paid more than the norm for either of those things. Its just not going to work well approaching it that way. Take a step back, look at what really matters to you about ANY of those jobs (not just the title...but what ACTIVITIES does the person do and how do those align with your values) and go from there.
Personally, I'm happy to help and answer your questions. At this point though, I worry you are so all over the place that we're going to mislead you with our responses. The fundamental point seems to be getting lost in a lot of the answers.
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