What is the job outlook and earnings potential for parapsychologists and cryptozoologists in the US?

Answer 1

I think it depends on your background and on how you market yourself once you finish a PhD. You do not need to be tenured to explore "questionable" topics, especially if you explore them in a critical manner and you can get a)students to register for your classes, and b)people to buy your books. It may be that you'll get a lot of interest from "crackpots," but seriously...who cares? Fringe science can migrate toward the center. Even potential figments of human imagination need to be methodically investigated.

Answer 2

I would really like to become a cryptozoologist, but I know in reality that it would be impossible to make a living off of it. It's a hobby of mine and I think I'll continue the hobby even 20 years later. I don't think it can be anything more than a hobby because no one can prove any of these things. Same goes for parapsychologists.

Answer 3

A story

I was asked to look into a strange smelling house in a wealthy area.

I took along some dowsing rods and had a look at the house and garden. I noticed a path with cross sections of trees. I asked the owner if he had cut down the trees when he moved in, he had.

The smell in the house was like someone had died.

I went back in the garden walked a search pattern with the dowsing rods found that their was some sort of water running under the house.

At the local library the next day checked 1901 ordinance survey map and found an old land drain under the house.
I went back with a couple of pumps drilled into the drain and pumped out the water.
Smell went away in the house, I did not ask for payment.

In a conversation later with the owner and his two children, they had been fascinated with the dowsing rods, so I made a couple of set and gave them to the children.

In return the owner of the house who was a business person gave me two share tips,I invested a small sum in both and 15 years later these share are worth $200,000

This is a fun business never ask for money, if your good it just arrives.

Answer 4

These are hobbies, not jobs. You would have to find a wealthy crackpot to be your sponsor (you would be his charity case) to avoid starvation. Parapsychology and cryptozoology are outside the realm of science. Every time a previously unknown animal is found, it is found by a zoologist or another real scientist. The cryptozoologists have never turned up anything. Parapsychologists similarly come up empty handed. They have never produced any testable proof of any paranormal event.

Answer 5

The financial gain of both of these fields is about zip, unless you are a professor of parapsychology at a college. Trust me! I've been in this field for years and I don't make a penny on it. I spend way more on it than would constitute a hobbie as well. LOL

Answer 6

No actual institution will hire you, you won't be able to publish your work in any peer-reviewed journals, and every actual scientist will make fun of you. Because those aren't considered actual fields of study. Just get a real job.

Answer 7

Zilch. You can't seriously do either of those unless you're either:

A popular writer -- your income is from selling fringe books to the "I want to believe" crowd.

A tenured professor. Once you're tenured, you can go on a fringe binge, and they won't be able to kick you out.

Answer 8

Not very good these fields are not part of mainstream science and are not taken seriously by most "scientist".

Answer 9

It will probably qualify you for a job at walmart

Answer 10

Crappy, as those disciplines are considered pseudosciences by most.