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Wow just $15 with three years of experience, that seems pretty low..
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Wow just $15 with three years of experience, that seems pretty low..
In the red state I live, this is supposedly good pay for a pharmacy technician. I assume you live on the coastal states. What is the tech pay there?
i also live in red state.. I remember someone getting hired at $15 as certified tech with little to no experience at grocery chain.. I even know someone who got hired at hospital after volunteering, their starting rate was $16.. Aren't you intern?? Interns are supposed to get paid more than tech, right?
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Maybe because I work for a big for-profit hospital system. They don't care if you are an intern/CPhT/experienced(I'm all three). I've interviewed for other places in order to increase my pay by 1-3 dollars, but realized they would not have a pharmacist spot open when I graduated. I've heard nonprofit hospital systems will pay more, but with hospital consolidation occurring, I've hedged my bets on the evil two of the hospital world.
Are red or blue states known for paying more or less?
I would definitely pick pharmacy again, why? Because in the future we will be getting provider status which would enable us to get paid for our services thus creating tons of pharmacist jobs for the market.
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No offense, but you can't offer much in the way of advice on the profession until you have some real perspective.
Provider status is an unknown variable in the pharmacy job market equation right now. Maybe it will pass, then pharmacists will start billing for their services. Which services are those? Hell, I don't know. I don't think the good folks at APhA know either.
You're putting a lot of faith into a hail Mary that has been sitting in committee for years, has a low chance of ever becoming a law, and will have questionable benefits if it ever does. They were talking about provider status and emerging jobs when I entered pharmacy school 7 years ago (I also caught the tail-end of "MTM will create new jobs"), and nothing has come of it yet.
I suggest a pragmatic attitude when making decisions that will affect your entire career. You must consider the solid facts, the known variables. The amount of pharmacists graduating every year has grown tremendously. Tuition is sky-high in most schools, and when you fact in undergraduate it is common to exit with 100-200k+ in student loans. The majority of jobs are in retail while it feels like the majority of students think they will be clinical pharmacists. Consolidation between major retail chains continues to occur, reducing the pool of potential employers and is often accompanied by layoffs. Working conditions continue to deteriorate, and many major chains do not even offer 40 hours of work/week for new pharmacists. Hospital jobs are becoming more competitive, and most will require a residency to get in the door. That is another year or two of accruing interest on your loans while you work for minimal pay. This is anecdotal, but I have worked with pharmacists with both PGY1 and PGY2 who were doing staffing duties. Don't think that a residency will guarantee you one of the fabled clinical spots. They are few and far between.
If you can weigh those risks and decide that this field is still for you, then go ahead. Don't get caught up with buzzwords like "passion" because that is just pharmacy school non-sense. This is career training first and foremost, and all they are trying to do is distract you from the very real issues that currently plague the profession by introducing emotional terms. Don't expect provider status to be the magic pill that turns around the entire industry. Until provider status is something, it is nothing.
Come on buddy. Anybody can see your forum history. No need to deceive this RN when you're trying to get out of pharmacy and into medical school.
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It's a good thing a physician came down and talked some sense into the OP. Goes to show how much trust (or lack therefore) that people have when it comes to advice coming from a pharmacist.
My clinical pharmacist professor that has a Pharm.D, BCPS, BCOP, QWERY, FGHYP, BCPPS, AQ-ID, AQ-Cardiology would not lie to me. Would he? I mean he seems to be living the life. That being said, I do have a dream, I have a dream that one day, despite whatever degree each individual may hold- whether it'd be a BS. Pharm or Pharm.D that we can all become united to fight against greedy corporates like CVS/WAGS/Wally world and take back our profession for good. I have a dream that one day we will be able to use our clinical pharmacist skills that we were taught in school to increase the quality life of our patients and get paid for it some day. Oh who am I kidding, I'm just a troll. #MakePharmacyGreatAgain
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