What do you enjoy about it specifically?
I worked in retail for about 4 years, and despite the common circumstances for people I had a pretty good experience. I knew all my patients and it felt good knowing them and helping them out. I enjoyed working with the people there as well (for the most part). Our patients were super nice and generous, they always brought cookies and stuff around the holidays for us. I just enjoyed going to work.
Moving on to clinical work, I got involved in pediatrics and that has been a blast getting to help out the kids, and more specifically my work in the OR has been a very fascinating line of work. I get to work firsthand with the doctors/nurses/AA's/CRNA's and the interprofessional team work is really visible versus sitting down in central pharmacy wonder how half the nurses manage to tie their shoes in the morning.
I just enjoy the work, it feels meaningful, it's fun, and I want to continue doing it on the pharmacist level instead of the technician level, is that reason enough for you?
The fact that the average number of pharmacy school applicants is down by 50% (which in reality is exaggerated, it’s probably more like 10-20%) is irrelevant to your argument. It doesn’t matter if pharmacy schools had 40,000 applicants or 20,000 applicants when there are 15,000 seats to be filled every year and pharmacy schools keep cranking out 15,000 new grads each year. The only thing that a reduced number of applicants does is further drop the standards by which to get into pharmacy school, which is why we constantly preach that all you need is a pulse and $200k in loan eligibility to get into pharmacy school nowadays.
No it's not irrelevant to my comment at all, and stop giving false numbers, i can site you the actual source that says overall applicants are down 36% and the avg per school is down 45% (iirc, which is the statistic i was referring to since there are more schools now versus a few years back)
This person must be at one of those pharmacy schools that don’t need the PCAT. I didn’t have that much free time to post on forums during my pharmacy school days...
Rotations and dealing with preceptors are gonna be tough for this one too..
And have you been following pharmacy? There is a good chance that most pharmacist work for Walgreens and CVS due to market share. They are buying everyone out and instead of student pharmacist, pre pharmers and pharmacists uniting to stand up for better work environments and demand things like lunches and bathroom breaks, we just ignore it all and deal with it...
Texas Tech, pretty good school wouldn't you say? I'd argue it's probably the best in Texas...
Also your lack of time suggests to me that you're just bad at studying or time management. I've done great in school and had a pretty reasonable amount of time to do whatever I feel like doing.
It's not that I don't agree with you guys that pharmacy saturation is a real thing and most people should consider how much they really want to get into pharmacy. I totally agree, but you guys have beat the **** out of this dead horse for a long time now, and often offer advice when it isn't asked for.
I don't think it's acceptable to go into someones thread that's asking about their PCAT scores and chances at X school to comment "LOL IF YOU HAVE PULSE AND 200K LOANS YOURE IN", nobody asked for that.