How would you describe a “unicorn” job?

[VictorOfHungerGames]

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I dont know what a unicorn job would be but my job is pretty nice

Independent
$130k+/yr as PIC
43 hours a week. 9-6 with 1 hour lunch.
Very hands off owner. Lets me run the pharmacy the way i want.
Awesome techs. 3 clerks and 4 techs with 10-20 years of experience. No drama.
One part time rph and one prn rph. I can pretty much get off when i want.
Old owner owned the pharmacy for 30 years and still comes by once a week or so to say hi. Patients are also great.

I actually look forward to going to work. Haha.

 

[Sparda29]

My current job may be a unicorn job. $75 an hour, NYC suburb small hospital, working overnights 7 days on/7 days off, comes with 4 weeks vacation so if I use a week vacation, I'd actually be off for 3 weeks straight.

Only negative is probably that it's not a union position and the health insurance EPO is kinda ass.

 

[awval999]

My current job may be a unicorn job. $75 an hour, NYC suburb small hospital, working overnights 7 days on/7 days off, comes with 4 weeks vacation so if I use a week vacation, I'd actually be off for 3 weeks straight.

Only negative is probably that it's not a union position and the health insurance EPO is kinda ass.

How could a union possibly improve that job? 4 weeks of PTO on your 7 on / 7 off job is 8 weeks standard PTO. And you make $75/hour.

 

[TheBlaah]

My current job may be a unicorn job. $75 an hour, NYC suburb small hospital, working overnights 7 days on/7 days off, comes with 4 weeks vacation so if I use a week vacation, I'd actually be off for 3 weeks straight.

Only negative is probably that it's not a union position and the health insurance EPO is kinda ass.

is that 75 an hour base or with shift diff?
If base, then that's very good for the location. If not, it's good, but I wouldn't call it unicorn.

 

[owlegrad]

Can you really pull one week of vacation and be off 3 weeks? I have to pull two weeks (the equivalent of 80 hours in a two week period) in order to be off for three weeks straight when I worked overnights.

 

[Dred Pirate]

How could a union possibly improve that job? 4 weeks of PTO on your 7 on / 7 off job is 8 weeks standard PTO. And you make $75/hour.

My current job may be a unicorn job. $75 an hour, NYC suburb small hospital, working overnights 7 days on/7 days off, comes with 4 weeks vacation so if I use a week vacation, I'd actually be off for 3 weeks straight.

Only negative is probably that it's not a union position and the health insurance EPO is kinda ass.

do you get four weeks of 7 days off? (meaning 4 x 70 = 280 hours?) that is what I get - or do you get 4 x 40 hours = 160 hours a year off?

 

[Sparda29]

is that 75 an hour base or with shift diff?
If base, then that's very good for the location. If not, it's good, but I wouldn't call it unicorn.

75 after differential.

 

[Sparda29]

How could a union possibly improve that job? 4 weeks of PTO on your 7 on / 7 off job is 8 weeks standard PTO. And you make $75/hour.

1199 union health insurance is 0 copay, 0 deductible, 0 out of pocket. Also, it makes it very hard to get fired. (Right now we have a wonderful DOP but say this one leaves and then a micromanaging jackass becomes DOP.)

 

[Dred Pirate]

75 after differential.

does this calculate the work 70 get paid for 80 aspect? or $75 x 70 every two weeks? I work 70 hours and make $81 an hour for each hour actually worked - and live in a heck of a lot lower cost of living area - just making sure I am not getting ripped off 🙂
plus back to the PDO question?

 

[Sparda29]

does this calculate the work 70 get paid for 80 aspect? or $75 x 70 every two weeks? I work 70 hours and make $81 an hour for each hour actually worked - and live in a heck of a lot lower cost of living area - just making sure I am not getting ripped off 🙂
plus back to the PDO question?

75 hours since we are supposed to take our break even though there are no other pharmacists. Director was like "just take your break around 3am-6am when it's dead. If they really need something, it's in the Pyxis or crash cart". I'd probably still not leave the pharmacy since there is nothing but wilderness outside the hospital at night and it's kinda spooky. I'd just order something from Ubereats or Seamless and watch some late night gaming on Twitch.

There was a family of racoons sitting on my car the other week when I got off shift so I literally had to wait for them to move since they weren't responding to me throwing rocks at them.

 

[Dred Pirate]

75 hours since we are supposed to take our break even though there are no other pharmacists. Director was like "just take your break around 3am-6am when it's dead. If they really need something, it's in the Pyxis or crash cart". I'd probably still not leave the pharmacy since there is nothing but wilderness outside the hospital at night and it's kinda spooky. I'd just order something from Ubereats or Seamless and watch some late night gaming on Twitch.

There was a family of racoons sitting on my car the other week when I got off shift so I literally had to wait for them to move since they weren't responding to me throwing rocks at them.

we don't get (half to take?) a lunch break - so that means we are only physically at work 10 hours a day - saves 130 hours a hear - I just eat while doing orders -

 

[Amphetamine Salts]

My friend just got an MSL job covering one city. Large company.

i'm curious about the medical science liaison positions if anyone has input about this? are these work at home positions for pharmaceutical companies? i see some openings online for different cities, if you live elsewhere though would you still be able to get hired?

 

[Dred Pirate]

i'm curious about the medical science liaison positions if anyone has input about this? are these work at home positions for pharmaceutical companies? i see some openings online for different cities, if you live elsewhere though would you still be able to get hired?

you have to live in the the district - some districts are relatively small (a state or two) some are huge - I interviewed for a position that covered the eastern 1/3 of the US. "Work at home" is a misnomer - most have signficant travel, the position I mention you spent about 70% of your weekday nights on the road.

 

[PharmEE95]

I dont know what a unicorn job would be but my job is pretty nice

Independent
$130k+/yr as PIC
43 hours a week. 9-6 with 1 hour lunch.
Very hands off owner. Lets me run the pharmacy the way i want.
Awesome techs. 3 clerks and 4 techs with 10-20 years of experience. No drama.
One part time rph and one prn rph. I can pretty much get off when i want.
Old owner owned the pharmacy for 30 years and still comes by once a week or so to say hi. Patients are also great.

I actually look forward to going to work. Haha.

Yeah, you like to discourage others from going into the same profession as you, frequently citing "how bad and saturated" things are for pharmacists (your comment history says more about yourself than about the profession).....yet your job seems to be the perfect "unicorn" job, all roses and sunshine.
It's pretty pathetic your tactics at trying to discourage others. Hopefully someone (maybe me) will take your job in the foreseeable future, then you can whine and complain even more on this forum. Pharmacy is a good career, but snakes such as yourself probably form the biggest downside, even accounting for the rude customers and having to stand on your feet all day.
Trash.

 

[gwarm01]

Yeah, you like to discourage others from going into the same profession as you, frequently citing "how bad and saturated" things are for pharmacists (your comment history says more about yourself than about the profession).....yet your job seems to be the perfect "unicorn" job, all roses and sunshine.
It's pretty pathetic your tactics at trying to discourage others. Hopefully someone (maybe me) will take your job in the foreseeable future, then you can whine and complain even more on this forum. Pharmacy is a good career, but snakes such as yourself probably form the biggest downside, even accounting for the rude customers and having to stand on your feet all day.
Trash.

Your claims are not supported by the facts.

 

[PharmtoCS]

Yeah, you like to discourage others from going into the same profession as you, frequently citing "how bad and saturated" things are for pharmacists (your comment history says more about yourself than about the profession).....yet your job seems to be the perfect "unicorn" job, all roses and sunshine.
It's pretty pathetic your tactics at trying to discourage others. Hopefully someone (maybe me) will take your job in the foreseeable future, then you can whine and complain even more on this forum. Pharmacy is a good career, but snakes such as yourself probably form the biggest downside, even accounting for the rude customers and having to stand on your feet all day.
Trash.

Welcome to SDN. Are you a licensed pharmacist? IF not, can you please tell us again why you think you're qualified to speak of our profession?

 

[TheBlaah]

Welcome to SDN. Are you a licensed pharmacist? IF not, can you please tell us again why you think you're qualified to speak of our profession?

You know, although you've been posting for years, I'm not aware of what your occupation is either. I assume you're a pharmacist, but I don't remember you stating it anywhere or if/where you're employed.

 

[lord999]

Unicorn job in the civil service: Sinecure SL job for mad scientists. All SL rank staff in a certain DoD program are allocated their personal choice of a GS-9 personal assistant, a GS-12 or 13 analyst, a GS-15 Executive Assistant, access to the motor pool and BX, and unaccountable to HR for hours or taskings (for the duration of their employment, they merely have to be alive and within the territorial boundaries of the United States). It actually makes leadership happy when they don't work as they can't cause trouble. I worked a year as a GS13 for one of those unicorns, and the only order I had that entire year was to source caviar and Russian Standard vodka as it wasn't sold in DC at the time which required a pharmacist license to bypass the ATF paperwork. It was a very pleasant year. I'll never be able to get that job as it's really for those people, but I'll happily take the GS-15 EA job as they are also well-known sinecures and are coveted assignments.

The more realistic one is a job that is both unaccountable and not responsible. I have that job which allows me time to actually work on other pursuits as occupational hobbies. Hopefully, the sinecure that I'm in gets forgotten about at Control, I want to keep this job forever.

 

[rxkrafted]

Yeah, you like to discourage others from going into the same profession as you, frequently citing "how bad and saturated" things are for pharmacists (your comment history says more about yourself than about the profession).....yet your job seems to be the perfect "unicorn" job, all roses and sunshine.
It's pretty pathetic your tactics at trying to discourage others. Hopefully someone (maybe me) will take your job in the foreseeable future, then you can whine and complain even more on this forum. Pharmacy is a good career, but snakes such as yourself probably form the biggest downside, even accounting for the rude customers and having to stand on your feet all day.
Trash.

Just because many of us have jobs already does not mean pharmacy isn't saturated.... I have many friends who graduated years after me and some who just graduated this year who give me insight on the job market when they survey their peers. Many of them don't get jobs even though they've interned with the company for yearssss because they just don't have any openings for people. But hey, I'm probably a "snake" too right?

 

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

How would you describe a “unicorn” job?

One that makes you grow horns. Preferably horns that resemble a 4-legged beast and not the devil.

 

[confettiflyer]

Yeah dude, most of us with unicorn jobs are on a completely different playing field than the newly minted PGY-1 grads that are coming in.