Positive & negative connotations come from what images generally first come up when one first hears a word(s), usually based upon observations made over the past several years. I.e. "Chinese Cultural Revolution" conjures images of death, hard labor, inequality, families split up, etc.."negative connotation." I really don't think anyone would think of excitement and peace when one hears those words. These images reflect
reality, not my opinion or yours. Likewise, when I hear "farmers," images that immediately come to mind include hard labor & hence getting dirty, under the sun, hands-on. These images (or "negative connotations") do not show my disrespect for farmers (if anything, b/c these people can endure such conditions to work in, I applaud them).
"Pharmers" "Pharm" whatever else BS out there is just so irritating b/c each profession has its own identity. It's like comparing apples to oranges--without personifying them too much, apples have their own unique characteristics (red, green, no peeling required) while oranges have their own (iorange, peeling is a must)...
Likewise, our pharmacy profession has its own identity that is different from that of farming, obviously. Pharmacy is pharmacy. Farming is farming. 2 completely different professions. I'm not a stickler when it comes to "you must not use pharm" but due to the incessant play on the root "pharm," after all while, it gets tiring (especially when you're in pharmacy school and your classmates play on the root to advertise social events
).
And without any disrespect to farmers, the fact of the matter is that pharmacy is ranked higher than farming in terms of Quality of life (QOL) and $/hour earned (excluding outliers for both, of course!!). That's just fact and not my opinion of which profession is better and which is not.
It's a natural tendency for human kind to want to move UP the ladder. In any profession, given the QOL & $/hour, we are always striving to move up to that highly coveted Executive position or Director of ____ job or CEO--it does not mean we don't have any respect for the jobs below those highly-sought after positions (after all, to move up, that means you are currently in a lower position
...you think a 70-yr old physician likes to be called a "resident" or a health professional wants to be called a pre-____ student?). Hence, yes, after hearing the play on words for a while, the joke isn't really funny anymore. I don't think your
CEO would be too terribly thrilled if you constantly told him his CEO position reminded you of the
seashell man at your local beach.
Given the natural tendency to always strive for the better bargain (more bang for your bucks...less work more money...better QOL), "pharming" "pharmer" is disrespectful to our profession because it's almost like "pulling them down the ladder" (even though this isn't really what is happening!) when pharmacists work so hard to move UP the ladder--starting from those pre-pharmacy days of getting the good grades to competing for a spot in pharmacy school to pulling all nighters to pass your pharmacy school classes to studying your brains out for the Boards exam. Don't disrespect your own profession that you are working so hard to become a part of. That's all I am saying (without putting other professions down).
Just my 2cents. I'm not a hater. Just pointing out how silly it is of people in their own profession to be indirectly putting down their own career field.
With that said, I'm going to study some pharmacology.
