Reddit reviews Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You, 2nd Edition
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First, and most important: as you've read, if you're going the PhD route #1 thing is lab research experience. You can have a 4.0 and no research and nobody will want you. That said if you're thinking PsyD or masters, nobody is going to care about research and you're likely better off spending time on the clinical side. Even for a clinical PhD program having a resume with clinical work on it will potentially hurt you (but only at the research heavy ones). So if you plan to go to a research heavy program, avoid the clinical volunteer stuff or if you do, make sure you have research on there too.
A lot of psychology is not like it is on TV. There is a decent book that I read back in the day that will give you a sense of what your day to day life will actually look like http://www.amazon.com/Career-Paths-Psychology-Where-Degree/dp/1591477328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374196758&sr=8-1&keywords=careers+in+psy. But at the end of the day you won't truly know until you start your program. The fact that you're starting early gives you plenty of time to get your resume looking good. Would advise you to carefully consider going to a program without full funding b/c unless you're seeing rich patients and not accepting insurance you won't be making a boatloads of money. Good luck.
I'd recommend this book for the question about careers: http://www.amazon.com/Career-Paths-Psychology-Where-Degree/dp/1591477328/
It was very helpful for me in sorting out the different options and varieties of ways in which people get to their eventual jobs.
The APA has a similar book that's just come out for looking at graduate school in psychology, but I can't speak either way to the usefulness of that one.