I think most people need to be concerned with building the foundations. That seems like the focus on this site. No one can tell you HOW to get onto the Forbes Top $ list. But we can tell you what you might need to give yourself a chance to get onto that list. It seems that the most probably route is engineering undergrad unless you go to a Ivy or top 10 school and major in business.
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I already did above. Maybe you just missed it. Or maybe you missed the point of this forum? Most of the people in this forum are in the "self-made" category. Otherwise, if they weren't, why would they need to be here?</p>
<p>the Pharmaceutical industry is going to boom this century... so the pharmD + other degrees (joint or in ur spare time another one) seems the right route.
I like the "self-made" category. Very true. Some of use are going to make it big down the road.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't care if the salaries drop. I don't care about an entire group. All I care about is myself and how I do, not how others are doing. I will always find a way to beat the odds.</p>
<p>I'm going to exploit the hell out of this field and move on if salaries drop.</p>
<p>Well, I have an unrelated question. Does dual majoring help either job prospects or potential salary? Specifically dual majoring in economics and political science. What is the starting for econ and starting for poly sci?</p>
<p>First off, there's no such field as "poly sci." That would be the study of many sciences. You're interested in "pol*i* sci," the study of politics.</p>
<p>As far as your question goes, salaries range widely for BAs in poli sci. Someone working for a private firm can net as much as $50K as a starting salary. People working for the fed can end up as high as GS8 or GS9 on the government pay scale, and earn themselves upwards of $40K plus full fed benefits.</p>
I dont doubt anything you have said, but you could post links about Pharmacists specifically making an average of $60-90k/year working only part-time? Also, are you currently in pharm school/working towards pharm school? What was/is your major? What other requirements are there for entering a PharmD program?</p>
<p>The more I hear about it, the more "golden" the pharmaceutical path is appearing. The only downside I see is that the 4 years I'd be spending in pharm school I could spend at med school..</p>
I dont doubt anything you have said, but you could post links about Pharmacists specifically making an average of $60-90k/year working only part-time? Also, are you currently in pharm school/working towards pharm school? What was/is your major? What other requirements are there for entering a PharmD program?</p>
<p>The more I hear about it, more "golden" the pharmaceutical path is appearing. The only downside I see is that the 4 years I'd be spending in pharm school I could spend at med school.
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<p>Retail pharmacy pay is by hour. Therefore, it is a part-time job. The going rate in the Northeast is anywhere from $45 to $70 per hour depending on your qualifications and abilities. Since there's very few pharmacists, it is easier to negotiate your schedule.</p>
<p>I am currently at Rutgers Pharmacy '11. It's a program that admits students directly from HS so it is a total of 6 years. However, your point is noted. If I had to spend 4 years as an undergrad and another 4 years as a graduate pharmacy student, then there's no value proposition in going that route. The reason I chose pharmacy was because it is a 6 year program directly from HS and the pay was "guaranteed".</p>
<p>It's unfortunately that they changed the requirement to ensure that everyone stays in pharmacy for a total of 6 years. I had enough AP credits to make it a 5 year program. That would have saved a year, but oh well.</p>
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<p>Faulty argument. If you work 40 (in some cases 35) or more hours a week, it's full-time. Salary/hourly pay doesn't make a job full-time. I've had part-time jobs that were salary.</p>
Faulty argument. If you work 40 (in some cases 35) or more hours a week, it's full-time. Salary/hourly pay doesn't make a job full-time. I've had part-time jobs that were salary.
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I did not in ANY WAY make an ARGUMENT. I'm just stating how pharmacy is. It could be part-time while you go to school and full-time in the summer. ;) If you want to disagree with that or have an urge to nitpick the insignificant details then fine...</p>
<p>You made an argument. You said, "Retail pharmacy is by hour. Therefore... (this is where you make an argument), it is a part-time job."</p>
<p>I know how pharmacy is, but you made a bad argument (hourly pay, ergo...part-time job). It can be part time, but just hourly pay doesn't make a job part-time.</p>
<p>If you really want a lot of bang for your educational buck, choose nursing. You can go to a two-year community college RN program and come out at 20 years old making $50,000+/yr. With experience, salaries in my area range up to $50/hour, or more if you work for an agency. It's a tough job but for people willing to put in the hours, $100,000/yr is possible. Hospitals do not care if you only have a two-year degree, it's all about having the RN license.</p>
<p>There are also sum schools that have accelerated programs where you can be done in 5 years... but they do require taking the courses in the summer.
Granted that if your gona do 8 years, you might as well do med. school. However, if you use pharmacy school as a backup to med. school, I believe the interviewer will see that through you if you decide to go to pharmacy school only because you failed to get into medical school.</p>
<p>Even if you are right, it is the industry that will boom. The people making the big money are going to be the CEO's and executives of pharmacuetical companies, not pharmacists. Now, those executives could have a pharmD and experience as a pharmacist, but they will be making big bucks in the pharm business, not the pharm practice.</p>
You made an argument. You said, "Retail pharmacy is by hour. Therefore... (this is where you make an argument), it is a part-time job."</p>
<p>I know how pharmacy is, but you made a bad argument (hourly pay, ergo...part-time job). It can be part time, but just hourly pay doesn't make a job part-time.
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<p>...and in the grand scheme of things, how is this important? If you look at what you've just posted, notice how you MADE an ARGUMENT on ONE word. Now isn't that ANAL?...probably. Believe me, you are not impressing anyone. This is an online forum. If you really want to nit-pick small insignificant details, you probably have an high interest in contract law. Again, it's an online forum. People here don't focus THAT much attention on what they post in part because they don't have to and also because they don't expect or care about an armchair wannabe lawyer.</p>
<p>Dude, what is your problem? I just said that you made a faulty argument, and I showed you how. I'm not trying to impress anyone, but you may give someone the wrong impression about how labor works.</p>
<p>Hourly pay /= part-time. That's all I'm saying. Now quit getting so defensive and emotional.</p>
<p>By the way, ad hominem attacks don't help, they hurt.</p>
<p>hourly pay doesnt equal part time. Whoever said that really needs to get things straight. Hourly pay is hourly pay and its other counterpart which you view as full time is called fixed sslary. If you work 40 hrs within 5 days, you are considered full time no matter what kind of work you do. 48 hrs a week for 7 days of work constitures full time.</p>
<p>Or, in pharmacy, you can sometimes work less than 40 hour per week and still be full time. Nursing, too. You might work only 12 hour days on Fri/Sat/Sun and be full time. Or you might work 10 hour days for 7 days and get every other week off. There are alot of creative schedules in health care!</p>