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I have shallowed a dentist and a pharmacist, but I still can’t decide which one I like more. Both professions have something that I like and I don’t like.
I have listed out the things I like/don’t like or good/not good at both professions.
Dental school
Good:
Pharmacy school
Good:
I have listed out the things I like/don’t like or good/not good at both professions.
Dental school
Good:
- I love microbiology, physiology and anatomy
- Good future (high paying, can find a job)
- High status
- Provide treatments (more fulfilling because you are making people better rather than doing checking and making recommendations as a pharmacist)
- Work with hands (less boring)
- No feeling to teeth (I won’t get excited whenever I see a real or a picture of tooth)
- Not good at doing business
- Not good at talking to people (I can talk to people and explain treatment, but I’m not good at doing small talks)
- High tuition (75k)
- May need to deal with patients with gross teeth or bad breath
Pharmacy school
Good:
- I love chemistry and physiology
- Get excited whenever I see drugs (I don’t know why, probably they look like candies?)
- I love drugs because it’s amazing and help treating people
- Have a deep knowledge in this field. Since I’m a pharmaceutical sciences major, I took some pharmacy classes and attended pharmacy conference. I know pharmacy issues eg. automation, saturation, etc.
- Relatively less expensive tuition (40k)
- Not need to own a business
- Many different pharmacy fields
- I know a lot of pharmacy students (connections)
- Job saturation
- Less recognized as dentists
- Salary doesn’t increase much after working for many years
- Not good at memorizing drug names (I can remember medical terms easily, but not drug names)
- Have to stand for all day
