I’ve been trying to narrow down what major I want to do and pharma does interest me, however I have read it is a very boring job in today’s time and no longer is the stable career it was at one time.
Is that true? I just want to do something in the future that involves the body and science with great job outlook and pay
Boring is in the mind of the beholder. For example, I find business to be mind numbing. Seems to me that there is enough info in this pharmacy to keep you involved. I never heard faculty, students, or pharmacists describe themselves as bored.
You need to shadow some pharmacists or get a job in a pharmacy to see if the career would interest you.
@mommdc how would I go about shadowing a pharmacist? I’m not interest in retail pharmacy so would shadowing a pharmacist in a lab be feasible?
You would ask local pharmacists if you could shadow them.
Pharmacists work mostly in retail pharmacies and hospitals. If you want to do research you don’t have to become a pharmacist.
^^^^But you would need a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science, chemistry or related field.
But you cannot just spend all that money for a pharmD degree and say you don’t want to do retail pharmacy.
You don’t know what jobs will be available and you don’t want to unnessarily limit your options.
A PharmD is a terrible investment of your time and money. The loans are astronomical and continue to go up each year as tuition rises, and the job market is terrible and continues to get worse each year as pharmacy continue to open with no end in sight, flooding the market with graduates.
There are other professions, i.e. computer programming, finance, accounting, engineering, etc. that offer better job prospects and better work conditions while paying as much as pharmacy if not more. That is without you having to take out $200k+ in loans and spend an additional 4 years in school.