I mean pharmacy is kind of like nursing. It's not hard to study and graduate. Women can spend time for family while attending school. I'm a woman, having 2 toddlers and will attend pharmacy school. I don't think I will sacrifice all my time for pharmacy school only but can split my time for both.
I think if I go to medical school, I won't have time for my family.
History shows more women have worked as nurses and pharmacists than men have; more men have worked as doctors or engineers than women have?
Again, you are completely clueless about what it takes to be a pharmacist. And historically, FAR more men have worked as pharmacists, then women. It was only in the late 80's/early 90's that female enrollment started to equal male enrollment in pharmacy schools (females being attracted to it because of the availability of high-paying part-time work.)
Pharmacy school will require hours of study and work each day. Unless you have a partner who can do the majority of the childcare when you are at home, I would say it would be extraordinarily difficult to go to pharmacy school with 2 toddlers. Bear in mind that pharmacy school is NOT just memorization, you will have papers to write, you will have lab reports to write, you will have to meet with other students for group projects, you will have to to do oral presentations. And the amount of memorization required is FAR more than in nursing school. There is a reason why some say pharmacists are overeducated for their actual job (I disagree that with that sentiment, but that sentiment is based on the difficulty of the work required to become a pharmacist, compared with the public's perception of what a pharmacist actually does.) I suspect *you* are basing what you think pharmacist school will entail, based on what *you* think a pharmacist actually does--and you will be in for a very rude awakening.
I don't disrespect the profession. But I see a lot of pharmacists in this forum look down on the students who got accepted with lower GPA or PCAT score than they had. And in fact, those can become pharmacists too, believe it or not?
Actually many of them aren't. Every other day it seems like there is a post by someone who has failed out of pharmacy school and desperate to get back in. The student board is filled with stories of people failing the NAPLEX. Schools are more than happy to take the money of subpar students, but that is no guarantee those students will ever actually be pharmacists (and many aren't.) This was unheard of 20 years ago.
My bad!
I admire all the pharmacists I worked with except for one. I thought to myself if she's a pharmacist, I can too. Then I asked her if I should go for it when I have kids to spend lots of time with and she said no problem.
I'm thinking one of 2 things...1) she realizes you don't like her, so she is passive-aggressively setting you for failure by telling you that is wouldn't be a problem going to pharmacy school with young children. or 2) she is an anti-social genius who did find pharmacy school easy and can't comprehend that anyone else would find it difficult.
Remember, there are incredibly book-smart people who have difficulty working in the real world, there difficulty in working in the real world shouldn't be taken to mean that it's easy to get the education required to get their job.
There is no way pharmacists beat out those professions. No way! Per the blog, "It's not supposed to be an exact measure of IQ by profession by any means, as it is based entirely on average annual income figures. In other words, it's an income table with the values converted to IQ scores..."
So no, they didn't evaluate the professions based on IQ. So misleading.
Well, if the President of the US doesn't even know how to read, then I don't know why any of us should be expected to have a good reading comprehension.