Customer mistreatment can harm your sleep quality

[PharmtoCS]

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Relevant article because retail pharmacists deal with this on a daily basis, and retail makes up the vast majority of the jobs available to pharmacists. That combined with the poor job security and high student loan burden can really hurt your sleep quality for years to come.

Customer mistreatment can harm your sleep quality, according to new psychology research

Really rethink your decision to go to pharmacy school. Work in a pharmacy as a tech, especially a busy retail one if that helps you decide.

 

[Sine Cura]

Feeling in control of one’s work, however, appeared to protect against the negative impact of customer mistreatment.

This is where many retail pharmacists fail miserably because many are not actually competent and have weak interpersonal skills in dealing with the public.

I'm not talking about CVS 15-20 sold Rx per tech hour but the likes of Walmart or grocery chains where pharmacists act like babies if work conditions are not 100% perfect

 

[PharmtoCS]

This is where many retail pharmacists fail miserably because many are not actually competent and have weak interpersonal skills in dealing with the public.

Pharmacy schools attract, teach, and promote a completely different skillset than what is needed to succeed in the 70% of the jobs that is retail.

Pharmacy schools spend years teaching medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and the benefits of provider status and tout how you will get to utilize your scientific and clinical skills to help the public or otherwise do research. What they do not tell you is that 70% of their graduates, if not unemployed will end up in fast food like conditions where they use little or none of the skills they were taught in school. Instead, they end up taking on tasks that are destructive to the brain cells, i.e. being a bathroom attendant, being the punching bag for why their medications are not covered under their insurane or why their copay went up $1, etc.

Most of those who go into pharmacy for the scientific or clinical aspect would be better off pursuing PhDs in medicinal chemistry or Bachelors or Masters in other STEM fields, i.e. computer science or engineering that makes a better fit for their personalties, are actually in demand, and do not require you to take on astronomical student loans.

 

[DagS132]

Pharmacy schools spend years teaching medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and the benefits of provider status and tout how you will get to utilize your scientific and clinical skills to help the public or otherwise do research. What they do not tell you is that 70% of their graduates, if not unemployed will end up in fast food like conditions where they use little or none of the skills they were taught in school. Instead, they end up taking on tasks that are destructive to the brain cells, i.e. being a bathroom attendant, being the punching bag for why their medications are not covered under their insurane or why their copay went up $1, etc.

just curious but do you currently work as a pharmacist now and am speaking from personal experience?

 

[PharmtoCS]

just curious but do you currently work as a pharmacist now and am speaking from personal experience?

Both personal and anecdotal experience from others.

 

[Xenophylia]

Pharmacy schools attract, teach, and promote a completely different skillset than what is needed to succeed in the 70% of the jobs that is retail.

Pharmacy schools spend years teaching medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and the benefits of provider status and tout how you will get to utilize your scientific and clinical skills to help the public or otherwise do research. What they do not tell you is that 70% of their graduates, if not unemployed will end up in fast food like conditions where they use little or none of the skills they were taught in school. Instead, they end up taking on tasks that are destructive to the brain cells, i.e. being a bathroom attendant, being the punching bag for why their medications are not covered under their insurane or why their copay went up $1, etc.

Most of those who go into pharmacy for the scientific or clinical aspect would be better off pursuing PhDs in medicinal chemistry or Bachelors or Masters in other STEM fields, i.e. computer science or engineering that makes a better fit for their personalties, are actually in demand, and do not require you to take on astronomical student loans.

Sadly what he says is pretty much the state of pharmacy. So much idealistic, useless knowledge taught. They should spend a year teaching students how to run a cash register and bag groceries, since they are much more likely to need to master these skills with what retail has become. I spent many a day wondering why I learned things that were sooo different from the skills I actually needed. Retail at the college I attended was the unwanted, bastard red-headed stepchild the school hated to acknowledge. But even then, that was where the jobs (and the $$$) were. Now the $$$$ has pretty much dried up, but its still sadly where most of the remaining jobs are.

 

[mentos]

They should definitely teach how to run a cash register or make a phone call. New grads take their sweet time chatting about BS while ten people in line behind get pissed.

 

[PikminOC]

Schools want to make money. So they leave out the bad stuff

 

[Modest_anteater]

Schools want to make money. So they leave out the bad stuff

DING DING DING!

It's the same reason MD schools don't teach about malpractice or about how their lunch is being eaten by PAs, DOs and NPs.