As a pre-pharm, you might think that you're more harder working, smarter, and more charismatic than your peers and that you won't be affected by the saturation of the pharmacist job market.
Eventually you'll graduate with $200k+ in loans and realize how bad the job market is. That coveted job in industry, ambulatory care, infomatics, nuclear pharmacy, etc? Those jobs are far and few between. The vast majority of the jobs are still in retail, and even that is shrinking. You’ll end up begging for any job at reduced pay and terrible work conditions. You’ll do anything to please your employer to keep your job. This includes working 3+ hours off the clock daily and cutting corners on patient safety just to keep up corporate metrics - and your jobs.
You end up hurting not yourselves but also currently employed pharmacists who also have to cut corners on patient on patient safety or be replaced. The flood of new grads hurts the profession since it takes away our ability as a profession to fight for better work conditions and patient safety.
Remember that those who crowded beaches during spring break also thought they wouldn't catch COVID-19, or that the COVID-19 is "just a flu." They’ll catch COVID-19 and inevitably spread it to the elderly and immunocompromised who will die or end up critically ill. Some of the spring breakers will also end up in the ICU on a ventilator taking away resources from others who have acted more responsibly.
If you're truly passionate about helping the profession then the best course would be to boycott the pharmacy schools rather than sign away to the schools a lifetime of debt.
Stay home, wash your hands, and don't go to pharmacy school.
Eventually you'll graduate with $200k+ in loans and realize how bad the job market is. That coveted job in industry, ambulatory care, infomatics, nuclear pharmacy, etc? Those jobs are far and few between. The vast majority of the jobs are still in retail, and even that is shrinking. You’ll end up begging for any job at reduced pay and terrible work conditions. You’ll do anything to please your employer to keep your job. This includes working 3+ hours off the clock daily and cutting corners on patient safety just to keep up corporate metrics - and your jobs.
You end up hurting not yourselves but also currently employed pharmacists who also have to cut corners on patient on patient safety or be replaced. The flood of new grads hurts the profession since it takes away our ability as a profession to fight for better work conditions and patient safety.
Remember that those who crowded beaches during spring break also thought they wouldn't catch COVID-19, or that the COVID-19 is "just a flu." They’ll catch COVID-19 and inevitably spread it to the elderly and immunocompromised who will die or end up critically ill. Some of the spring breakers will also end up in the ICU on a ventilator taking away resources from others who have acted more responsibly.
If you're truly passionate about helping the profession then the best course would be to boycott the pharmacy schools rather than sign away to the schools a lifetime of debt.
Stay home, wash your hands, and don't go to pharmacy school.
