@oldstock I'm surprised that you started pharmacy school this semester to begin with. You have been posting about the fall of pharmacy and saturation since you were a pre-pharm candidate earlier this summer and yet you still went to pharmacy school anyways?
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you in your mid 40s? If you are trying to start med school now you might not have a lot of time to practice before retirement age. You will have 4 years of med school (assuming you have finished your pre-med requirements already) and 3-7 years residency after that. Plus the cost of med school will be over 200k, so it will take you forever to pay that off.
And are you working while in school and do you have a family to support?
It sounds like you have everything figured out but to me starting med school now doesn't sound like a good move. I don't really know you so I'm sorry if my assumptions offend you. I'm just curious.
you do not know me indeed... so your assumptions and your unsolicited advice about me are wrong and not appropriate for me.
(My advice to you: if you want to advise or make assumptions about someone, it is better to wait for the person to initiate, provide you with their personal details, and ask the questions so that you can make good assumptions and provide better advice. This is why you never see me to tell anyone in particular to do anything. Here I only state the general picture of pharmacy and my opinions where it is heading. It is up to anyone who reads my posts to make their own conclusions and/or act on them.)
If you would like to know more about me or why I started pharmacy school, PM me. I might tell you everything. But certainly I do not wanna lay out all my personal details in a public forum for privacy concerns.
Indeed, I really do not have to answer these types of questions like your questions here, which require me to tell my personal life in a public forum. But the short answer is, I am not intending to be a pharmacist no more as I originally planned when I applied to pharmacy schools but using pharmacy coursework as a stepping stone, a special SMP if you will, to medical school. Why is this right for me ?? For a start, do you know whether I pay pharmacy schools with full student loans or scholarship ?? I go to a cheap or expensive school ?? How much money I have saved for this business or how I would finance med school ?? Do I want or need to do med school and how a MD degree is going to help me ?? Like I said, I do not have any desire to lay my personal details and future plan here for all to see. Remember again I do not ask anyone for opinions or advice on what I wanna do with pharmacy or medicine.
anyway, it seems like you and several who are asking these questions are trying to discredit my opinions/comments/arguments by directing your arguments at me and motivation, and not my arguments or opinions. My motivation is just nothing but trying to help by informing others of what I see in pharmacy, and people still need to evaluate data, draw their own conclusion, and make their own decision or action.
But you look at this the wrong way. Focus on the big picture of pharmacy and how you will fit in it. Just because I am in, it does not mean that you should. Focus on yourself and pharmacy, not me.
In general, focus on yourself and answer these questions: what is going to happen when schools keep opening and pumping out new grads ?? What would happen to you and what are you going to do then as a new PharmD ?? What would you do now to better prepare for your future and get the best return for your investment of time, money, and hard work ?? Then figure out a way to work best to achieve your life goals for YOUR own situation.
Please do not worry about me in pharmacy school or want to go to med school unless I ask for your opinions or advice. But I do thank you very much for your concern.
Hope all this typing satisfies your curiosity !!
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I am seeing that many are going to ask the same questions that you do. So I take some time to write all that out so that the next time a person asks me the same questions, I just have to direct him/her to this post. In fact, in this thread, it has already happened twice 🙂
May I ask why you applied pharmacy schools if you think pharmacist is a bad profession? Are you still in pharmacy school?
I did not know about the mess in pharmacy before I got in... My fault of not doing enough research/DD. But I am now preparing to take the MCAT in a couple of months and switch. If I do not get in med school, I prob go back to my old career or open some business... This Rx **** is not worth none of my money, time, or effort, esp. with the poor job outlook.
But your questions about me have been asked before. The people asking those questions are like, if you are in, I am getting in also. Ehhhhzz: Wrong !!
My advice: do not focus on me. Please do focus on yourself. Gather the facts and numbers and also do some real-life investigation to see the reality and truth about pharmacy and do the math yourself to see if pharmacy is still worthy of your investment of money, time, and effort. Then make your own decision as I am not going to make that one for you. Once you got in pharmacy or medicine, you are going to be stuck there for life. Remember that. GL 😉
