Nutritionist & Public Health in Pharmacy

[quitejaded]

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Everyone is pushing me to go to pharmacy school. I said, no. I want to provide people with ways to stay healthy via DIET and lifestyle, not drugs. But I also acknowledge that taking drugs can be very helpful (I'm not one of those anti-drug people).

Now, I'm almost graduating with an undergrad in... not pre-pharm. I have a low GPA. And I'm scared that I may not succeed in my career choice (Like I said, I want to provide people with quality information and opinions about health/beauty/lifestyle. Whether I have my own TV show or just a website, but I want to make money) right away. I'm realizing now how difficult it is. If I got a Pharm.D., I would be able to easily find a job as I wait for my other passion (which would be related to my work, right?) to flourish.

Does anyone know if there is a program that is related to my interests in holistic health and nutrition?

 

[deleted205891]

Everyone is pushing me to go to pharmacy school. I said, no. I want to provide people with ways to stay healthy via DIET and lifestyle, not drugs. But I also acknowledge that taking drugs can be very helpful (I'm not one of those anti-drug people).

Now, I'm almost graduating with an undergrad in... not pre-pharm. I have a low GPA. And I'm scared that I may not succeed in my career choice (Like I said, I want to provide people with quality information and opinions about health/beauty/lifestyle. Whether I have my own TV show or just a website, but I want to make money) right away. I'm realizing now how difficult it is. If I got a Pharm.D., I would be able to easily find a job as I wait for my other passion (which would be related to my work, right?) to flourish.

Does anyone know if there is a program that is related to my interests in holistic health and nutrition?

I think I'm gonna make you quite more jaded.
You can't "easily find a job" in pharmacy anymore, as most markets are saturated with pharmacists, so really, after seeing how job needs fluctuate over just a few years, I say go for what you want to do, as long as it's not completely unrealistic. Go be a nutritionist, as that is what you want to do, and life will be more bearable than if you are a pharmacist and don't like your job and moreover are forced to work either the night shift or part-time. Nutritionists don't starve.

 

[Praziquantel86]

Everyone is pushing me to go to pharmacy school. I said, no. I want to provide people with ways to stay healthy via DIET and lifestyle, not drugs. But I also acknowledge that taking drugs can be very helpful (I'm not one of those anti-drug people).

Now, I'm almost graduating with an undergrad in... not pre-pharm. I have a low GPA. And I'm scared that I may not succeed in my career choice (Like I said, I want to provide people with quality information and opinions about health/beauty/lifestyle. Whether I have my own TV show or just a website, but I want to make money) right away. I'm realizing now how difficult it is. If I got a Pharm.D., I would be able to easily find a job as I wait for my other passion (which would be related to my work, right?) to flourish.

Does anyone know if there is a program that is related to my interests in holistic health and nutrition?

Bikram yoga. You also might want to look into those commercials that you see at 3 in the morning about Master Cleanse.

Read some of the other posts in here before you comment...notice how the vast majority are about how difficult it is to find a good job now.

 

[quitejaded]

I am under the impression that when you do get a job, it will be worth the wait. In my community, everyone and their dog is getting a pharmacy degree. Pharmacists are pushing young people to join them in getting pharmacy jobs. I don't hear this kind of "hard to find a job" from anyone but people on the internet.

Pharmacists make double what a nutritionist can make, but if the job market is as difficult as any other market (including nutrition), you're right that I might be miserable.

 

[KARM12]

If your passion is nutrition, then be a nutritionist...makes sense. All of the nutritionists I've worked with have been very well respected members of the healthcare team. They make a decent living and have better lifestyles. There are pharmacists who work with nutrition, but it is mostly TPN. Seriously, if you are passionate about something, then go for it. Being a pharmacist really isn't that flashy as a career that I would give up my passion for.

 

[deleted205891]

everyone and their dog is getting a pharmacy degree.

Precisely. And keep in mine there is a 4-year gap between someone entering pharmacy school and someone becoming a pharmacist. "Everyone and their dog" enters pharmacy school because there are jobs, and 4 years later, boom, they have to compete against everyone else, and everyone else's dogs. 4 years ago (and even 2 years ago) there was a shortage. Now there is a surplus in many states. This is what I mean by the job market changing so quickly.

 

[charfdorn]

Everyone is pushing me to go to pharmacy school. I said, no. I want to provide people with ways to stay healthy via DIET and lifestyle, not drugs. But I also acknowledge that taking drugs can be very helpful (I'm not one of those anti-drug people).

Now, I'm almost graduating with an undergrad in... not pre-pharm. I have a low GPA. And I'm scared that I may not succeed in my career choice (Like I said, I want to provide people with quality information and opinions about health/beauty/lifestyle. Whether I have my own TV show or just a website, but I want to make money) right away. I'm realizing now how difficult it is. If I got a Pharm.D., I would be able to easily find a job as I wait for my other passion (which would be related to my work, right?) to flourish.

Does anyone know if there is a program that is related to my interests in holistic health and nutrition?

Acupuncture? Chiropractic? DO? All better options.