pharmacy or dentistry

[aluo17]

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I am a 15 year old with dreams to be a successful pharmacist, but since I am hearing about the market saturation of the demand of pharmacists is just about full, it discourages me to work on becoming a pharmacist. What I plan to do is graduate and work part time by the time I am 27 year old with all the prerequisites needed. But, I am hearing dentistry is doing well also.

Even if the market for pharmacists is saturated, would opening my own pharmacy be better than working for a pharmacy? Which will generate a higher net pay?

Also, introduce me to dentistry please, thanks?

 

[aluo17]

Anyone?


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[docwei88]

What you could do is immerse yourself into both fields. Do not worry about whatever field being full or whatever. It's your passion. If you enter a medical field simply because it is booming, you're going to have one sorry career.
Figure out what you love to do best and go for it. Like, ask if you can volunteer or shadow.

 

[EvenStevens]

From my understanding from viewing a few threads, Pharmacy is going downhill.
While dentistry -> orthodontics is very lucrative

 

[Screwtape]

Shadow a dentist (or a few ideally) for a few days. If you enjoy the work and could see yourself being a dentist for the rest of your life, then pursue it. There will always be people succeeding and failing in both dentistry and pharmacy. DO NOT choose a career 10 years in advance just because the job prospects are favorable/unfavorable at the moment, things can and do change. Choose a career that will be fulfilling to you.

 

[Nickthegreek]

I am a pharmacist deciding to go dental. The reason why pharmacy is going downhill is because drug store chains and insurance companies have their hands in the cookie jar and make every decision even though they have no clue how a pharmacy should run. They just care about money. Ive been a pharmacist for 8 years now and I like my profession but I hate what big corporations are doing to it. They have the mentality that we stand around and do nothing for 100k a year and that they need to strip us of our techinitian hours and cashier hours and have us do the work of six people while not making 1 mistake. What they ignore is that we fill 300+ prescriptions a day, make critical professional judgement calls, give doctors advice on what to give if a patient has a drug interaction, give immunizations, reccomend over the counter drugs etc. its alot of high liability tasks that corporations try to demean by equating us to lazy cashiers.

 

[EvenStevens]

The reason why pharmacy is going downhill is because drug store chains and insurance companies have their hands in the cookie jar and make every decision even though they have no clue how a pharmacy should run. They just care about money.

very unfortunate , one of my other optons. Hope things get better as time goes on, but in a capitalist economy it more than likely wont

 

[Nickthegreek]

The scary part is it seems they will try to get their dirty hands into every aspect of healthcare if they already havent

 

[Toothshucker]

They're both very different careers. Don't base your decision on the current market. Besides... you don't really need to decide until your 3rd year in college. Even then, people take a year or two off when applying to med/dent/pharm school.

If money is your main factor, then you'll have more potential to earn more in dentistry, though many (not all) dental schools cost significantly more than pharm schools, including at public schools.

Anyways, go shadow a pharmacist and dentist.