<p>Hi I am a junior in High School and I want to become either a Pharmacist or a Nurse Anesthesiologist. I was wondering which of the two is the better job.</p>
<p>Don’t know how you would describe a better job, but both are equally important careers in healthcare. Job outlook for both is good in the coming years. Pharmacists made $116,000 per year (<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm”>http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm</a>) and nurse anesthesiologists made $157,000 per year (<a href=“Nurse Anesthetist”>http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Career/80/Nurse_Anesthetist</a>)
Hope it helped. </p>
<p>My mom is a nurse anesthesiologist and she LOVES her job. She was a bedside nurse for 12 years and hated it until randomly applying to school again and was accepted! It was the hardest 28 months of her and our (my dad, me, and my sister) lives but it was completely worth it. She did obtain a HUGE amount of loan but she has a family to take care of so you can’t compare. This is funny because I am actually getting my Pharm.D. in 6 years because I am in a 2+4 pharmacy program. Anyway, I would do nurse anesthesiologist because you only have to work as an ICU nurse for about 3 years and be in nurse anesthesia school for 2 more years and come out with more pay and less debt. And if you really want to do pharmacy after becoming a CRNA, you will find yourself in pharmacy school soon after. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>All the nurse anesthetists that I know really like their jobs and I believe the outlook for employment is going to be very good. Pharmacy jobs are getting harder to find, due to the oversupply of grads coming out of all the new pharmacy schools that have opened up in recent years. See some of the other threads… And I would venture to say that a number of retail Rphs don’t enjoy their jobs in today’s business environment. </p>