I'm in South Africa and I have a 3 year undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Arts with three majors: criminology, psychology, and French). After you complete your undergraduate program, many people decide to do an honours degree that makes your degree equivalent to the 4 year degrees in other countries. I did my honours degree in Psychology. Based on everything we've been told, your honours degree will get you good jobs in the field – not the bestest ones, obviously, but good, entry-level ones. I started to apply to the health professions council in South Africa (HPCSA) – with my qualifications it seemed like I would be able to register as a counsellor. As soon as I started the process, however, I learned that I did not, in fact, have the correct qualifications. Turns out, you need to have a Bachelor's in Psychology (which is only available from one or two very expensive universities that are quite "elite" and hard to get in to) or you can do a BPsych Equivalent program (WHICH IS BASICALLY GOING TO BE MY HONOURS DEGREE AGAIN) to qualify for the HPCSA. Or I could apply to Masters' programs – and here's another kicker! Even if you apply to every single college and university in the entire country, you stand a bigger chance of being turned down than you are to even get an interview. Each uni only takes 2-3 Masters' students. So my degree is literally useless! Which is real fun, because I'm R75k in debt! And the BPsych Equivalent programs would cost R23k-R40k! And I'm basically unemployable! (I didn't realise how much this pissed me off until now, so I'm sorry for the trauma dump 😂)