Are you guys prepared?

[BelowTheMean]

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To possibly have to work in a less demanded area or some rural areas after graduation? Well, I just want to say that this could possibly be very likely. Dont expect to be able to land a job out of school in your hometown (unless it's some rural area or developing city). For those socal people, good luck finding an intern position, let alone pharmacy position in socal. With new schools popping out like weed, all of you should try to beat out the rest and get in now. It sounds bad but yeah, trust me, get in early or you will be left working in some random place you dont want.

 

[samfromVA]

u are below the mean aren't u?

 

[BelowTheMean]

u are below the mean aren't u?

yes, 50% of the time i was, but still got my pharmd

 

[IrishHammer]

To possibly have to work in a less demanded area or some rural areas after graduation? Well, I just want to say that this could possibly be very likely. Dont expect to be able to land a job out of school in your hometown (unless it's some rural area or developing city). For those socal people, good luck finding an intern position, let alone pharmacy position in socal. With new schools popping out like weed, all of you should try to beat out the rest and get in now. It sounds bad but yeah, trust me, get in early or you will be left working in some random place you dont want.

My hometown consists of 7,000 people and a dozen pharmacies are open within a 20-minute drive of my house, and is a 45-minute drive away from a city that nobody earning six figures wants to live in. Thanks for the concern, though.

I think most people on this forum are already aware that the more desirable places to live are either already at, or are rapidly approaching saturation. Try convincing some newspapers, as well as some of CA's brand new pharmacy schools about this.

 

[aboveliquidice]

... for the apocalypse!!!

 

[illtreaturite1]

I know of a job for a pharmacist in a decently metro area, and this job has been available for almost 2 years; But yet I keep seeing these posts. Sometimes the jobs on the edge of the metro areas stay open cause everyone wants to be in the center of town.... I'm just speaking from the perspective of someone who lives in Cincinnati though, not the east or west coasts.

 

[Passion4Sci]

Northern California seems no where CLOSE to saturation. Either that, or the companies are being so strict on whom they're hiring, no one can make the cut. I highly doubt it's the latter.

In Sacramento, Davis and Vacaville alone you can find offers from Sutter and Mercy, and even coveted VA Pharmacy positions are available at Mather AFB.

Not sure what this thread was supposed to do.

 

[IrishHammer]

Northern California seems no where CLOSE to saturation. Either that, or the companies are being so strict on whom they're hiring, no one can make the cut. I highly doubt it's the latter.

In Sacramento, Davis and Vacaville alone you can find offers from Sutter and Mercy, and even coveted VA Pharmacy positions are available at Mather AFB.

Not sure what this thread was supposed to do.

San Jose counts as NoCal, right? Because I would sooooo work in San Jose if I got a good job offer. (I realize this is a wee bit out of date, but) Go Sharks!

 

[Passion4Sci]

San Jose counts as NoCal, right? Because I would sooooo work in San Jose if I got a good job offer. (I realize this is a wee bit out of date, but) Go Sharks!

San Jose is more Bay Area than "nor cal" (We normally consider Bay to be a separate entity, since its job market is wholly different, as are its people/culture... not even kidding).. I agree, though. GO SHARKS! Frikking ducks... My wife is a staunch Ducks supporter, has been since I met her, so you can understand the strife in our household this past week!

I work and volunteer in Oakland at Highland Hospital. Right now I know there is an opening for an outpatient pharmacist (staff) at Alta Bates Summit... You might want to look into that. I do not have the number handy but I can get it for you tomorrow when I put my hours in if you are interested. Just shoot me a PM.

I know for a fact also in the bay area, there is a huge burgeoning market for what we call per-diem pharmacists, or in other words, contractor pharmacists. One of the Pharm.Ds I work with at the hospital is one of these in fact, moonlighting after hospital hours at these per-diem places, and the rates are super competitive ($55-85/hr for X amt. of hours) for extra pocket change. Harmony Pharmacy is opening a Pharmacy at, get this, SFO (San Francisco Airport)... And they are hiring 3 (I think.. it might be 2 now, the notice was 2 weeks old or so) per-diem pharmacists. Obviously you're still in school but yea...

If you're serious about it, there are options out here.

 

[stlouis79]

I plan on moving to Mexico after graduation. Think of all the money to be made giving flu shots.....ouch...that was low.

 

[WurangBlang]

i know a girl who's second year in ucsd and already got a job at walgreen in glendale pretty easily. Maybe it'll be lil different by the time i graduate (2013), but it's ok for now i believe.

 

[Pharmacy Kid]

I'm going PHS, so I probably will end up in a rural area anyways.

 

[IrishHammer]

San Jose is more Bay Area than "nor cal" (We normally consider Bay to be a separate entity, since its job market is wholly different, as are its people/culture... not even kidding).. I agree, though. GO SHARKS! Frikking ducks... My wife is a staunch Ducks supporter, has been since I met her, so you can understand the strife in our household this past week!

I work and volunteer in Oakland at Highland Hospital. Right now I know there is an opening for an outpatient pharmacist (staff) at Alta Bates Summit... You might want to look into that. I do not have the number handy but I can get it for you tomorrow when I put my hours in if you are interested. Just shoot me a PM.

I know for a fact also in the bay area, there is a huge burgeoning market for what we call per-diem pharmacists, or in other words, contractor pharmacists. One of the Pharm.Ds I work with at the hospital is one of these in fact, moonlighting after hospital hours at these per-diem places, and the rates are super competitive ($55-85/hr for X amt. of hours) for extra pocket change. Harmony Pharmacy is opening a Pharmacy at, get this, SFO (San Francisco Airport)... And they are hiring 3 (I think.. it might be 2 now, the notice was 2 weeks old or so) per-diem pharmacists. Obviously you're still in school but yea...

If you're serious about it, there are options out here.

Wow...I certainly didn't expect that thorough of a response. I feel special now. Hey, while I'm on a hot streak, anybody know about job prospects in Seattle?

In all seriousness, though, I appreciate the insight as well as the offer, but I'll pass. San Jose (and Seattle, and Phoenix, and Calgary, and Charlotte, and Toronto) were by and large just fleeting thoughts of "Boy, wouldn't it be nice to live in...?" If you're a betting person, probably best to put your money on my staying in WNY, it's my home, and I don't have to worry about a surplus, because Buffalo will NEVER be saturated by anything (except for poverty and terrible sports teams).

 

[tbsbnstar]

Wow... way to be a downer!
Pharmacy is the most promising profession right now, so no matter what the down falls are, know that you are better off in this profession than most others.
don't freaking worry until you have to people! Most of us just got into school!

 

[Praziquantel86]

If you're a betting person, probably best to put your money on my staying in WNY, it's my home, and I don't have to worry about a surplus, because Buffalo will NEVER be saturated by anything (except for poverty and terrible sports teams).

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. It's hard to come by any retail spots unless you want to float, hospital jobs are fairly limited to per diem work. This is without SJF graduating their first class (granted, they're in Rochester, but a lot of students are from Buffalo) and without the soon to open POS D'Youville.

The southtowns and down the thruway towards Pennsylvania might be a little better, but I don't get out that way much.

 

[IrishHammer]

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. It's hard to come by any retail spots unless you want to float, hospital jobs are fairly limited to per diem work. This is without SJF graduating their first class (granted, they're in Rochester, but a lot of students are from Buffalo) and without the soon to open POS D'Youville.

The southtowns and down the thruway towards Pennsylvania might be a little better, but I don't get out that way much.

If they're going to SJF, odds are good they have no real loyalty to the Buffalo area (by the way, I'm curious as to how many people who grew up in Buffalo are actually going there, I only know of three in my class). D'Youville is starting with a very small class, from what I have heard (somewhere around 40, I don't know if that's accurare though).

And as for the mention of Southtowns, I live in Springville. That's beyond Southtowns, that's ski country (either that or it's the little void on the map between Southtowns and ski country, it changes so much I can never keep track of it). I'm not so worried. I have the skills to be able to get a job somewhere in WNY.

 

[atticus27]

u are below the mean aren't u?

....deleted post. Couldn't breath from laughing so hard, but it was too much. Respek!

 

[iMedical]

graveyard shift ftw xD