Pharmacy...a boring career??
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whatever you do, dont do biomedical sciences. It is the most disgusting and boring career with a cheap wage and you may be required to do on-call at hospitals. Most ppl who go into it are medicine rejects. nobody wants to be a biomedical scientist. You may find it interesting, i suppose and go into research, but that i think you'll need a PhD, probably.
It's probably true that pahrmacy's boring. Why dont you look into biochemistry, if you're interested in a biology related course. Or biological sciences. Or, if you like learning about the human body, try neuroscience. I havent reserached their salaries and working conditions, perhaps you could, but they do seem interesting!
It's probably true that pahrmacy's boring. Why dont you look into biochemistry, if you're interested in a biology related course. Or biological sciences. Or, if you like learning about the human body, try neuroscience. I havent reserached their salaries and working conditions, perhaps you could, but they do seem interesting!
Original post by manupalace
Depends what you want to do after. You can go into a lab after a pharmacy degree (with appropriate work experience) or industry but can't go into hospital or community pharmacy after any of the other degrees.
When you say you can go into a lab, would it just be a pharmaceutical lab, or would other labs be open to you as well (say they asked for a science degree, would pharmacy count?)
Original post by katehelena
When you say you can go into a lab, would it just be a pharmaceutical lab, or would other labs be open to you as well (say they asked for a science degree, would pharmacy count?)
Possibly. Many lecturers in chemistry, biochem etc studied pharmacy. Provided you do a lab based project and choose the appropriate advanced modules it shouldn't be a problem. However it may be more difficult than for someone with a straight pharmacology degree, or biochemistry degree. Pharmacy would not count as a lab based experimental science degree (as I found out when I enquired about grad entry medicine at Oxford) so it depends on the employer.
In any case many labs want PHDs.
I've worked in a Community Pharmacy for the past 2 and a half years (having done previous stints at boots and an independent) and I have yet to find it boring...! It's not just dispensing, get a good PCT and the amount of services the pharmacy can offer is endless! I'm applying to do Pharmacy next year, where (current thinking) I'm hoping to end up in hospital. If you've got the passion for pharmacy, you'll find it hard to be bored! Theres so many sectors, you just need to find the right one for you!
if you have your own pharmacy it aint boring.!!! if you work for some pharmaceutical company that is boring.
Original post by member9876
Trust me look into hospital pharmacy, its really interesting and more specialised than community pharmacy. However even community pharmacy is expanding.
Secondly tell me a job which has 100% job prospects, good pay, decent working hours.
As for docotrs getting more pay, do they really get that much more for working longer hours and touching horrible patients?
Doctors rely on the pharmacists a lot in hospital as do nurses. We are well respected as opposed to a shop where the general public have their usual thick perceptions.
Secondly tell me a job which has 100% job prospects, good pay, decent working hours.
As for docotrs getting more pay, do they really get that much more for working longer hours and touching horrible patients?
Doctors rely on the pharmacists a lot in hospital as do nurses. We are well respected as opposed to a shop where the general public have their usual thick perceptions.
...Dentistry?
I don't know. I've never done it. Two people I know have mums who do it though, and they're always grinning...
Pharmacy is ridiculously boring and stressful. I wouldn't encourage anybody to pursue it as a career.
Original post by Hoganballs
Pharmacy is ridiculously boring and stressful. I wouldn't encourage anybody to pursue it as a career.
Always nice to get an input from the "lick, stick and pour" brigade.
What brigade do you belong to ? The bright eyed Pharmacy student brigade?
Original post by katehelena
Original post by katehelena
I always thought hospital pharmacy seemed more interesting, and most people's views on here have kind of confirmed that. Thanks for the help everyone! 
But im still stuck whether to do pharmacy or a more general degree like natural sci, chemistry or bimedical sci :s
Will i ever decide? :s :\
But im still stuck whether to do pharmacy or a more general degree like natural sci, chemistry or bimedical sci :s
Will i ever decide? :s :\
If you want a decently paid job very quickly after finishing your degree, go for pharmacy. Not biomed and things like that. But pick what you like the most.
Well fair ****s to you Pharmgirl. Tell me this do you actually know the precise % of Pharmacists who work in Community? Would it be approaching 70? In case you don't know nearly all of those Community Pharmacists have to "lick, stick and pour" everyday because it's part of their job. Oh but Pharmacy is so much more than community I hear you say? Well to 70 % of us, it ain't.
Hoganballs please don't embarass yourself. I've been qualified for 17 years, heavily involved in pharmacy politics and well aware of the workforce census. Get back to pharmacy forum and locumvoice and leave the students with some ambition to become the future of our profession. FYI, it wasn't me that said that pharmacy is more than community. But I will tell you that in my experience, yes, my experience, community pharmacy is so much more than lick stick and pour, it is what you make it. Yet for some reason, it is the pharmacists most resistant to the changing roles of pharmacists that have the least enthusiasm for the job. What a mess, eh? It is stressful, yes, but certainly not boring. Perhaps you need to become one of the other 30% if that's how you feel but please appreciate that for many of us pharmacists, pharmacy was a good career choice, as it will prove to be for many students in the future.
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You're well aware of the workforce consensus yet you still think it's a fabulous career path to go down. So would it not seem more logical to you that they listen to the overwhelming majority of Pharmacists and what they say instead of your own solitary voice. Do you work in Community regularly? I've yet to speak to a Pharmacist who actually likes their job and would encourage people to study Pharmacy. You're part of a conspiracy, a lie that promises a career that doesn't really exist. Time you caught yourself on. Pharmacy ain't Pharmacokinetics and IR, it's ****ing Boots and Lloyds the sooner reality hits home for these cretins on here the better.
Original post by Hoganballs
You're well aware of the workforce consensus yet you still think it's a fabulous career path to go down. So would it not seem more logical to you that they listen to the overwhelming majority of Pharmacists and what they say instead of your own solitary voice. Do you work in Community regularly? I've yet to speak to a Pharmacist who actually likes their job and would encourage people to study Pharmacy. You're part of a conspiracy, a lie that promises a career that doesn't really exist. Time you caught yourself on. Pharmacy ain't Pharmacokinetics and IR, it's ****ing Boots and Lloyds the sooner reality hits home for these cretins on here the better.
What's wrong with it? I know pharmos, they seem ok with it.
It's not walking on the moon exciting, but it's a stable and respectable job
Even if it is boring, it's a solid profession. I know it has it problems but it has more prospects than a general science degree. Go into research or whatever afterwards, safe in the knowledge that you have something to fall back on. Let me tell you, a research scientific career after a PhD (even if interesting) has ****e job/career prospects and there aren't as many jobs in industry as there used to be. I regret not doing Pharmacy as my first degree everyday.
My mum's friend is a pharmacist, and she says it's a great career if you're a woman. Woohoo! And on my work experience they all seemed pretty happy to be doing what they're doing. Except for the slightly taciturn locum pharmacist, but still. It's just one pharmacy. You can't love what you're doing all the time.
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