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Hi all,
I'm a current pharmacy student (third year), so this thread isn't for my benefit. I just see a lot of students over on the pre-pharm board with their youthful optimism about pharmacy school and getting a job post-graduation. I'd really like to have a thread that I can just copy-paste the link and say, "look at what current pharmacists have to say about the job market."
It's not that I want to discourage anyone from pharmacy school, but I know I didn't have a realistic understanding of the job market when I started (no family members in pharmacy), and I really wish that I had known then what I know now.
So if you're a practicing pharmacist (no students, please, unless you're sharing what a practicing pharmacist has told you), give these guys a realistic outlook about the future job market, as you see it.
EDIT: I know the vast majority of pharmacists on this forum currently have jobs (thank goodness), but what I'm hoping to get a better sense of is whether or not your company is downsizing or expanding and whether or not you feel that new job openings are going to keep pace with the rate of pharmacy school graduates. This is the information that I felt like I lacked going into pharmacy school. I was under the impression that things were like they were in the 90's where new graduates were getting large sign-on bonuses and there was good job mobility as well. And that seems to be the impression that some pre-pharmacy students have as well.
I'm a current pharmacy student (third year), so this thread isn't for my benefit. I just see a lot of students over on the pre-pharm board with their youthful optimism about pharmacy school and getting a job post-graduation. I'd really like to have a thread that I can just copy-paste the link and say, "look at what current pharmacists have to say about the job market."
It's not that I want to discourage anyone from pharmacy school, but I know I didn't have a realistic understanding of the job market when I started (no family members in pharmacy), and I really wish that I had known then what I know now.
So if you're a practicing pharmacist (no students, please, unless you're sharing what a practicing pharmacist has told you), give these guys a realistic outlook about the future job market, as you see it.
EDIT: I know the vast majority of pharmacists on this forum currently have jobs (thank goodness), but what I'm hoping to get a better sense of is whether or not your company is downsizing or expanding and whether or not you feel that new job openings are going to keep pace with the rate of pharmacy school graduates. This is the information that I felt like I lacked going into pharmacy school. I was under the impression that things were like they were in the 90's where new graduates were getting large sign-on bonuses and there was good job mobility as well. And that seems to be the impression that some pre-pharmacy students have as well.
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