Industrial Engineering vs Pharmacy

[PrePharmStu2009]

Hi I am a senior at a top notch university and this my last semester. I have always had an interest in health field but I did not want to major in just chemistry or biology. So I chose Industrial Engineering, and hopefully will graduate this year with an Engineering degree. But I also took pre-requisites for pharmacy school. I have already applied to pharmacy schools and have gotten accepted into 3 schools. I currently also work in a pharmacy. Now I am kind of stuck in thinking whether Pharmacy will have a bright future since so many schools are opening and the prediction that there will be less jobs for pharmacists, as well as their salaries will decrease significantly. Do you think that I should try to find an engineering job or go on to Pharmacy School? Which field do you think holds a brighter future?

 

[Momus]

Med school, IT or accounting have much better job prospects

Pharmacy is crap now... and it will be worse every year for job growth; expect pharmacy to be similar to business and law graduates... bunch of glorified degree with no jobs.

 

[starsweet]

Since I have experience in both fields (well, BS in mechanical engineering and just graduated from pharmacy school) I feel qualified to answer this. The true answer is because of the economy, BOTH fields are depressed. I still feel that pharmacy is a better choice because of the flexibility of the job field. I think that job availability will get better in the coming months (at least, I hope so..) In my experience, I think it is more difficult to find engineering jobs. With IE, this would especially be true because it's more technology-oriented and those jobs are more and more outsourced now.

Now if you already had a job lined up, that would be a different story..

Just my 2 cents..

 

[RxMTM]

Don't go for one or the other depending on job or monetary stability. Go for the one YOU LIKE the most. Because, in the end, if both of them fall down financially, which would you be happier to be in?

 

[SanyRx]

Just do what you think you'll enjoy more. The people who keep ranting about pharmacy doom and gloom have the same mentality as the people who think the world will end in 2012. No one knows the future...but plenty think they know it.