Pharmacist to CPA career change

[PharmacistFl12]

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Currently pharmacy manager with 14 years of rph under my belt. Believe or not my dream has always been to become a CPA. I love numbers/finance and accounting. I pursued pharmacy due to the $$$ and have been blessed with a successful career and accumulated decent wealth. Should I continue my rph career even though I feel it's a dragged and I'm very much jaded? Or pursue my dream of being a CPA? I'm in my late 30s.

 

[projektreverb]

Why not both? Pursue your dream of CPA and when that career takes off then leave pharmacy. I don’t think being a CPA is as glamorous as it used to be no?

 

[Gombrich12]

Go down to a few days a week and start studying something else. Being a retail pharmacist at a corporation for 20 or 30 years is insane.

 

[confettiflyer]

Make the jump if that’s what you want to do. I envision you’d be primed for a revenue cycle career in the hospital with such an intimate knowledge of medication costs/charging and a CPA. Or just leave healthcare altogether.

 

[lord999]

Just know that CPA work is quite grueling in itself as well. There are a bunch of burnouts from Big Accounting. But, it's a fine job to have, and if that's what you want to do, it's a respectable job to do. If you can deal with chain pharmacy, Big Accounting will work. You should know that there is ageism in that field too, so you will have to get solid financials as beyond 55, jobs are rarely stable and freelance work is the standard.

 

[rph3664]

Go for it! YOLO.

 

[lobelsteve]

Your new theme song.

I find this distasteful and offensive. And I am not the only one. You may have made it as a joke, but that shows poor judgement.
And I am the resident jerk doctor here.
I found it funny.