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Is it being a pharmacist hard work?
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From what i heard its pretty simple and you still make a good amount, like just filling prescriptions and stuff
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you have to go to college for 6 years now and it is allot harder than putting pills in a bottle, you have to have the correct dossages and make sure meds dont react with eachother and stuff like that
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i used to want to be a pharmacist, but i think it would be boring because you dont talk to many people {or thats what i heard}
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so to answer you question, yes the work is easy, but my friends dad said it was the hardest fucking thing he ever did (schoolwise), but doesn't regret it. if your smart, and want to make money do it. just dont fuck up my prescriptions
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I have to take a pharmacology course next semester for nursing and my one friend already took it, said it was boring as all hell and its real hard to remember names/doses/side effects and how that drugs reacts with others.... good luck though
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the pharmacology course at my uni is only about drugs. illegal drugs.
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never mind i just remembered it was actually called psycho-pharmacology.
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no but getting there is hard. six years of class, half a year of internship, and you have to pass a test. once you pass that say hello to 60-70k starting plus signing bonuses b/c america is short of any medical personell(sp)
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OK, seriously for any girls out there. WTF is with it taking like 15 minutes to get a birth control prescription filled? It's not like it needs to be counted out...it's pre-packaged. Grrr...
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by grandpa was a pharmacist and owned a pharmacy, it wasnt easy work but he put 5 kids thru college fine.
its pretty hard from what i hear tho, and a lot of training
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i know thats why i like the idea, you just do you job and then you talk with your friends
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you have to go to school to be a pharmaceudical technician and it costs a lot..
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i mean how hard is pharm school compared to med school?
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I have a friend in pharm school and as intelligent as he is, he said it's incredibly difficult. The kid had a 3.8 or something throughout pre-pharm and he's having a hell of a time in pharm school. Doing well, for sure, but it certainly isn't a cakewalk.
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to be a pharmacist is hard i believe.. i think you have to do med school.. like full on?? but the pharm technician pays like 15 $ an hour and you can learn to be one in a year at one of those pehonix college type things.. dono how hard that shit is though.
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ive worked at a pharmacy in my town for like 3 years, im really good friends with the pharmacists there and they even let me act as a pharmacy tech, so i get to fill peoples prescriptions and do old peoples pill paks and stuff, sure you make a lot of money but, like its been said before, all you really do is fill prescriptions and talk to doctors when there is a problem with prescriptions, the doctors kind of handle most of the problems with drug interactions so really the most exciting part of ur day would be phoning the helpline to figure out if a customers drugs are covered by insurance. i wouldnt do the job, even tho the money is right, but thats just me
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im a pharmacy technician right now... I make 10 and hour because i still have to finish up PDX system training. Once im done with that ill be making 17 an hour. Its pretty hard work and it gets stressfull at times and noooo its not just putting pills in a bottle... you have to memorize brand and generic names and be able to comprehend the pdx system which is quite complicated... insurance billing is a pain and the customers themselves are a pain.... thats just for a technician... pharmacists have it twice as bad.... but i guess its worth it for 100+ grand a year
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my father had to go to college for about 7 years and he owned a store for 20 years..
short after that he now works at cvs making about 40 bills an hour
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hahahaha that sucks! i would sooner see a future of homelessness than work there. actually, maybe not is it a good job?
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just b/c she works at Wal mart doesnt mean she gets paid like a wal mart employee. My aunt is one at a local grocery store and gets like $85,000 plus benefits
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All of that just to make $40 an hour must suck. Something go wrong with the store?
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Good job, but boring. Hard work when it gets busy. My mom was one.
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