Career Change to Pharmacy? - Page 3

rw86347 · 06-27-2007, 01:07 PM

My dad is a pharmacist. I think of it as a $115K/yr McDonalds job. Good pay, borring 9-5. But if you could do it part-time it would be great!

patnmary · 06-30-2007, 12:22 PM

I'm a retail pharmacist at Target 56 bucks an hour, 5 minute drive, lunch break, 50 scripts a day, it's all gravy!

FinanceDude · 07-03-2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by patnmary

I'm a retail pharmacist at Target 56 bucks an hour, 5 minute drive, lunch break, 50 scripts a day, it's all gravy!

I think Target would be a LOT less stress than Walgreens or CVS..........

FinanceDude · 07-03-2007, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by patnmary

I'm a retail pharmacist at Target 56 bucks an hour, 5 minute drive, lunch break, 50 scripts a day, it's all gravy!

50 scripts a day? That's it? Man, my dad would have LOVED to work there back "in the day".

He did 150-200 scripts a DAY for 15 years, then switched to teaching phanrmacy techs........

FinanceGeek · 07-05-2007, 10:40 PM

You need to be prepared that as a pharmacist you'll regularly be asked some very non-trivial questions about managing health conditions, drug interactions, side effects, etc. This carries with it substantial ethical and legal liability...its much more than just counting pills, which by the way is all done by machine for the most part. And I suspect you'll come across a wide variety of junkies and other folks addicted to / abusing various substances. Not very pretty situation. Working in a hospital pharmacy would avoid much of this.

Personally if I were interested in pharmacy I'd investigate being a compounding pharmacist, not a commodity drug dispensing agent. The compounding side of that business always struck me as far more interesting, esp I would think for someone with a chemistry background.

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06-27-2007, 01:07 PM	#41
rw86347 Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 133	My dad is a pharmacist. I think of it as a $115K/yr McDonalds job. Good pay, borring 9-5. But if you could do it part-time it would be great!

07-05-2007, 10:40 PM	#45
FinanceGeek Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 244	You need to be prepared that as a pharmacist you'll regularly be asked some very non-trivial questions about managing health conditions, drug interactions, side effects, etc. This carries with it substantial ethical and legal liability...its much more than just counting pills, which by the way is all done by machine for the most part. And I suspect you'll come across a wide variety of junkies and other folks addicted to / abusing various substances. Not very pretty situation. Working in a hospital pharmacy would avoid much of this. Personally if I were interested in pharmacy I'd investigate being a compounding pharmacist, not a commodity drug dispensing agent. The compounding side of that business always struck me as far more interesting, esp I would think for someone with a chemistry background.

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