Financial advice, like legal & medical issues, require someone skilled in that arena and any Reader worth their weight will deflect such questions and send the client to an expert (this includes Mental Health situations, btw.) When it comes to possible career choices there are techniques available to Psychics that can give the client OPTIONS -- a look at areas they will probably do best in. Interestingly, a strong number of such matches coincide with aptitude testing and job counseling type tests that generate a similar list. Besides that, most of us actually know intuitively, the kind of work/career path we are best suited for.
When I was tested by the State of Ohio (an aptitude test series) some years ago the list of 18 or so career path options they recommended included; Writing, Acting, Professional Magic, Counseling and being a Psychic within the top 12. . . go figure
After three weeks of psychological "scientific testing" and several thousands of dollars later, they tell me what I already knew. . . and we wonder why States and the Nation are so far in debt
Oh! Yes, the word "Psychic" was actually on the list.
My point previously, is that everyone seeks the counsel of non-professional or improperly trained counselors daily and run the risk of being screwed over just as quickly as you are assuming people are when they go to see a psychic.
As to your link on Education in the Psychic trade, I can't say where the article got their statistics but I know, based on the people I've worked with over the years as well as what the merchants (owners of New Age stores) are encouraging, is the fact that most serious people from my generation forward that are aggressively working in this field for more than 3-5 years, will be taking classes and in many cases, getting certification if not degrees, in counseling and psych. But as I've pointed out many times before, one can take countless polls and get the statistics they want -- the information that will slant findings towards the favor of their intended readership/market sector; that's how things work in the world now days -- everything is "true" and at the same time, a "lie".
One Important Point. . . people seeking the advice of a "specialist" is very much "logical" and as such, wouldn't it be logical for a person wanting insight by a person familiar with their own way of looking at the world -- spiritually and even intellectually -- to meet with the sort of person they have both, respect and rapport with that may be able to help them see and understand things with a bit more clarity? Are you saying that such people don't have this right?
If you are, that would be akin to telling ministers they can't exist; in many an instance Psychics are in fact, clergy within a legitimate religious grouping. Granted, it may be a Wiccan type coven, but last I checked that's both, legal and generally viewed as "valid". Even on the Christian front, you will find many Readers that come from a Science of Mind background as well as Unitarians who have or are undergoing legit training for serving as counselors, and while this is frequently faith/group based, it is still formal training and religious association -- they are "officers" of that church group. So again, based on this assumption that Reader's are all evil and out to screw the public, you are saying that members of these different faiths don't have the right to patronize members of the clerical society or that the clerics themselves aren't allowed to get paid for their time and effort?
I don't buy it and I really don't want to believe that's what you're saying or even that you would want to dis-allow a person's right to choose. Yet, you are more or less implying just that based on ASSUMPTIONS and OPINIONS vs. actual EXPERIENCE. I've yet to meet a cynic that has the balls to do that latter part; they are all afraid of finding out something they don't
want to believe in and conceal that fear under the ruse and argument of "Critical Thinking" a.k.a. talking yourself out of accepting that there is "more" to it all.
As I've said before, far too many situations in my life for me to weld the door shut, as so many of today's "skeptics" (cynics) have done. . . true skeptics, back in the day I was first involved in that world, NEVER shut the door that tight; most of them wanted to find that "proof" (even the Bible tells us about this, that's how long it's been going on). But "man" is still looking with his eyes, compass and calculators rather than LISTENING to hear that subtle voice or pay attention to the more etheric odds & ends that we catch dancing just outside of focused sight. Because the spiritual is not tangible and quickly "proven" it must be false and a great hustle; and yet, most of the ancient adepts & teachers told us that this was in fact, the case -- it's ALL an Illusion . . . I know you'll probably not comprehend what that means at first, but I have faith that you will eventually start to catch a glimmer of it.