Both disciplines are crusted several feet deep in their own traditions which can make graduate studies in either field a frustrating endeavor if your own perspectives and the vantage point you’ve gained from studies in several different fields is seen as incompatible with their traditions, and if the department is a bit on the crusty academic-conservative side.
For undergraduate studies, it generally matters a lot less: the attitude in either department is much more likely to encourage bachelors-degree students to take classes in other departments and get a well-rounded liberal arts educational experience, and your instructors, far from being inclined to tell you that the ideas you are bringing into the classroom are “wrong”, will most likely leap with joy to find someone who thinks and makes connections between what is being said in other disciplines and what is being said in their classroom, rather than just wanting to know “What do I gotta memorize in order to ace the final”
I’d agree with the poster (AudreyK, I think) who said follow your interests - you’re much more likely to do well that way, and its a long time until you’ll need to worry about boring stuff like jobs.
I can’t speak for what is happening in philosophy at the moment, but I can say that psychology is a massive subject which introduces many philosophical ideas. Psychology includes: cognitive psych (mental processes), child psych, social psych, neuroscience, psychopathology, brain and biology and more.
Possible careers include: educational psychology, clinical psychology, research, psychotherapy, social work, teaching.
You could be studying the behaviour of individual neurons or the behaviour of groups in institutions…some would argue that it is no longer one subject. There’s also an argument that some of the questions that in the past were the preserve of philosophy are being taken over by psychology and neuroscience. In fact you could define psychology as experimental philosophy.
I am annoyingly interested in psychology.
annoying because I already chose my career path and degree, and it wasn’t psychology.
Shallow reason - There were tons of birds (English:American Birds:chicks) on the psychology course. (and absolutely none on the Software Engineering course)
Deep reason - I am genuinely deeply interested and fascinated by the human mind and way of thinking. Specificaly children (child psychology) It is fascinating to observe and learn about the learning process.