A lot of pharmacists struggle to get full time work, so they usually locum around for 3/4 days a week.
The ones that do get full time work, end up work 40 hour weeks for 38K a year give or take. Usually churning out prescriptions
like a robot (get the numbers up! more EPS! more MURS! we need more money!), working with equally tired staff. You will be standing all day, taking abuse from customers (where is my prescription! why can't you find it! don't you just pull medicine off a shelf!).
It takes a bloody long time to do a prescription, so when someone gives a stack of 5 with 4 items on each and then say to me "10 minutes", I look at them with that WTF look. You do realise I need to find the items, so that's 20 items I need to find at least (multiple boxes means I need to put together probably 30-40 items). If there are missing items I would have to tell you, potentially count what we do have. I need to label them all, put all the info on each ONE by ONE, I might have to fill out all your details since you are new, all your address, date of birth etc. I then need to attach the labels while making sure no one dies in the process. Then the pharmacist needs to check each item ONE by ONE. So 10 minutes, yeah, piss off mate.
So the next time you go into a pharmacy think about this