Which sounds better?

[Drx]

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Do you think it is better to list your pharmacy experience in terms of hours or years? I have been working as a certified pharmacy tech for 8 years.
So my application or personal statement could say:
I have 8 years of pharmacy experience
or
I have over 17,000 hours of pharmacy experience

Thanks for your opinions 🙂

Made it to a poll.

 

[Jbuprepharm]

Do you think it is better to list your pharmacy experience in terms of hours or years? I have been working as a certified pharmacy tech for 8 years.
So my application or personal statement could say:
I have 8 years of pharmacy experience
or
I have over 17,000 hours of pharmacy experience

Thanks for your opinions 🙂

Made it to a poll.

Listing the hours makes it sound like you're trying too hard to impress them

 

[imprecious]

Listing the hours makes it sound like you're trying too hard to impress them

I agree.

 

[LNCS]

I agree. Listing that much experience in terms of hours isn't appropriate. It would be as appropriate as me saying I'm 210,240 hours old. I think 8 years of experience has more of an impact. Whatever the decision, you definitely have the "how did you research the field" down 🙂

Listing the hours makes it sound like you're trying too hard to impress them

 

[Drx]

Thanks. I thought years sounded better also.

 

[Apothecary]

I think it just sounds more impressive being expressed in larger units.
Like if someone said they had 10 years instead of pharmacy experience instead of a decade. "A decade of pharmacy experience" sounds like a lot.

 

[imperial frog]

Why stop at days? Why not hours or minutes?

 

[Ijeoma]

Why stop at days? Why not hours or minutes?

Microseconds actually sound better, dont you think?

 

[freshbeatschris]

Why stop at days? Why not hours or minutes?

I think you should say "I have 61,200,000 seconds of pharmacy experience." 😉 Now THAT sounds impressive.

But seriously now, 8 years of experience IS an impressive amount of time and it certianly shows a high level of commitment. I think you should go with the years.

Chris