Bitchy? How old are you? Pretty sure you epitomize that term.
I actually worked 3 jobs in pharmacy school (retail, critical access hospital, academic medical center) which usualy included 3-4 weekends per month and multiple weekdays per week. Even as a resident I moonlight. What do you do?
And as for the bolded (leaving out your uninteresting interpretation of how other professions feel about us), is that something you read on the internet, or do you have actual real world experience? I'd suggest you focus on getting your PharmD, or find an exit strategy from this profession based on the tone of YOUR posts. Now carry on with your doom and gloom posts. It's a friday night, don't over drink knowing you hate the career you chose tonight.
LOL. I didn't think you were insecure enough to make such a post, but I was wrong.
I couldn't care less about your life story, but since you seem like the kind of individual who has to compare himself to others to get satisfaction. I would like you to know that I work 20 hours a week. I work both in the retail and hospital pharmacy settings. I also work every Saturday and Sunday of every weekend of the month. No weekends off. Both of those days are eight-hour shifts.
Are you happy now? Have I met your criteria for what a pharmacy student should be?
If you spend so much time in the healthcare setting, I find it hard that you don't interact with the other healthcare professionals. I regularly talk with the nurses, lab techs, patient aides, security personnel, and even the doctors. You must have the personality of a wallflower and the charisma of wet cardboard to not even interact with your coworkers. You should try it out once. No once forces you to be a mute. You can learn a lot by talking with the other healthcare professionals.
I take great pride when it comes to working in the pharmacy. But I'll call BS when I see it. A lot of the "clinical" pharmacy stuff they spout at the schools is just that. But the pharmacists I work with are phenomenal. I've never ever felt that they were ever judgemental or cutthroat. Even if they work as staff pharmacists or retail pharmacists, they fill an important healthcare role. It is always a team effort to get work done.
You must really work in a sh#tty workplace if you have pharmacists who spend their time trying to outdo or cut each other down. Or maybe you're just projecting your own negative attitude and behaviors unto others. And if you indeed worked a lot during school, I find it hard that no one would offer you a job upon graduation...
I assume UofK means either University of Kentucky or Kansas. Neither of these states suffer from the saturation problem that is rampant on the coasts. I know people in both states who attended their state universities and were able to land FTE hospital jobs (staffing and clinical) upon graduation. The fact that you did a residency seems to indicate that you were never offered a job or you were too "high-and-mighty" to accept such a job offer. You're better off casting that negative or competitive attitude if you want to be happy in pharmacy. Medicine is the field to go to if you want to compete with others.
You come across as a nasty person. I wouldn't want to work with you.
PS. I'm starting to think this Alex Barker guy isn't too bad. At least he doesn't come across as a tool. I'd work with him over you any day.
