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[Jabberwocky12]

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Hell yeah guys.

I now volunteer for the red cross for on-call disaster relief and I also get training in order to do public speaking for disaster relief AND get to train people on CPR and AED.

I also got a hospital to let me touch their drugs as a volunteer.

Screw clubs, screw research. I'm done. I got all the things I want to do right here, one for pharmacy and one for non-pharmacy that is heavy in training and public speaking.

The bakery management didn't work out though 🙁

Oh and I also managed to get permission to teach students like ESL, trads and non trads how to write better in the writing resource center. But that's kinda paid so not really an EC.

 

[NaOH]

Baller.

 

[Jabberwocky12]

I feel like it. I still need to study the PCAT and complete my degree but now I have time to gather experience in areas that make people wanna enroll/hire me.

 

[CJay]

Hell yeah guys.

I now volunteer for the red cross for on-call disaster relief and I also get training in order to do public speaking for disaster relief AND get to train people on CPR and AED.

I also got a hospital to let me touch their drugs as a volunteer.

Screw clubs, screw research. I'm done. I got all the things I want to do right here, one for pharmacy and one for non-pharmacy that is heavy in training and public speaking.

The bakery management didn't work out though 🙁

Oh and I also managed to get permission to teach students like ESL, trads and non trads how to write better in the writing resource center. But that's kinda paid so not really an EC.

How in the world are you doing all that?!? Makes me feel like I have no chance applying to UNC. Just getting a degree, shadowing some, hospital volunteering (only 35 hours a summer), trying to get good LORs, applying for a pharm. tech job (probably not happening), studying for PCAT, and trying to have half a social life is stretching my time. Hope there isn't many more people with your ECs or im doomed.

 

[Jabberwocky12]

How in the world are you doing all that?!? Makes me feel like I have no chance applying to UNC. Just getting a degree, shadowing some, hospital volunteering (only 35 hours a summer), trying to get good LORs, applying for a pharm. tech job (probably not happening), studying for PCAT, and trying to have half a social life is stretching my time. Hope there isn't many more people with your ECs or im doomed.

Well here is the trick. A lot of these things are once a week. I am ON CALL 1 week out of every 5 for disaster relief, so I might not ever be called ever again. The training is 1-2 times a week throughout the year for education but there are more volunteers than just me.

So it looks like a lot but they are managed into little chunks. The pharmacy in the hospital needs someone to cover 1 day a week or 2 times a month as a filler for regular volunteers.

But experience is experience. The writing workshop is included as a lab for the english course I take so I get credit, and then later I can work there for money if I want.

I'll be studying for the PCAT once I complete A&P and take chem 1 since I AP'ed out and I want the GPA boost and PCAT review.

Don't fret. I'm trying to get into UNC as well. I just got lucky in that I have an outgoing personality and prior experience teaching others. Go do something in tutoring or SI and you would be great. Pharmacy experience works as well. You can do a bunch of different ECs but I just love these due to personal reasons so I'll do better at them.

Don't stress yourself out bro, it'll be fine 😀 Just don't let the social time take up too much time that can be used for other things. I need some good ECs because I had a bad year for personal reasons and my GPA suffered horrendously. So I need to make the rest of the application stellar and show a strong upward trend.

 

[CJay]

Good work man! 👍 Thats the one thing I don't really have is an outgoing personality, im more laid back I think. Hopefully it doesn't hurt me in the long run.

What application cycle are you applying for? Also, when are you taking the PCAT?

 

[Jabberwocky12]

Good work man! 👍 Thats the one thing I don't really have is an outgoing personality, im more laid back I think. Hopefully it doesn't hurt me in the long run.

What application cycle are you applying for? Also, when are you taking the PCAT?

Probably sometime next year. I've got some things going on at home that I need to get resolved before I can go to pharm school in good conscious. So I might be class of 2017 -_-. But I'll do what I gotta do, ya know?

PM me if ya have any questions, I'll try to do what I can to help. Are you in RTP now or do you live somewhere else like Charlotte?

 

[CJay]

I'll most likely be class of 2016, but I am taking the PCAT this July. I am currently in Greensboro getting my degree, so the in-state tuition is a big part in applying to UNC.

 

[pfaction]

Jabberwocky, you seem like an excellent applicant.

Please, for ****s sake, PLEASE look at the jobs market for Pharmacists right now. Extrapolate that to 2017. Realize that in your state there are at least 500 students graduating per year that want 100k jobs.

I don't understand why people are still applying.

Think I'm kidding? I'm class of 2013 and I won't have a job. I laugh at people that are graduating in 2016, 2017. Hell, 2011 are having hard time finding jobs, I know someone that went to Alaska. It too will be saturated soon.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=639184

 

[pharmschooler]

Jabberwocky, you seem like an excellent applicant.

Please, for ****s sake, PLEASE look at the jobs market for Pharmacists right now. Extrapolate that to 2017. Realize that in your state there are at least 500 students graduating per year that want 100k jobs.

I don't understand why people are still applying.

Think I'm kidding? I'm class of 2013 and I won't have a job. I laugh at people that are graduating in 2016, 2017. Hell, 2011 are having hard time finding jobs, I know someone that went to Alaska. It too will be saturated soon.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=639184

pfaction: What should one do if they really want to be a pharmacist?

I mean, I've considered the job market too, but my other big plan is to stay home and get a job as a receptionist with no benefits or work as a pharm tech for the rest of my life.

Somehow, it seems like pharmacy school still beats the pants off either of those options...

 

[Jabberwocky12]

I appreciate all of the concern but no matter what any job I do will have competition. Doctors have residency competition, pharmacists have....residency competition but all medical professionals will have their competitions to keep them from getting the job that they want.

I always reserve the right to change my decision and all but so far I'm feeling pretty geared to being a pharmacist. On the bright side, I have medical school as a back up just in case That was a joke med students so don't take offense, it's just something I hear a lot of pre-meds say...

 

[pyaari83]

What if I haven't started something, but will in the fall. Should I put that in my work or EC on pharmcas?

 

[R2pharmD2]

I appreciate all of the concern but no matter what any job I do will have competition. Doctors have residency competition, pharmacists have....residency competition but all medical professionals will have their competitions to keep them from getting the job that they want.

I always reserve the right to change my decision and all but so far I'm feeling pretty geared to being a pharmacist. On the bright side, I have medical school as a back up just in case That was a joke med students so don't take offense, it's just something I hear a lot of pre-meds say...

Hey, med school really is my plan B

 

[30Percent]

Hey, med school really is my plan B

Do you mean "was" since you're already in pharmacy school? Its going to be a lot of debt if you finish pharmacy then switch to medicine.

 

[crazybob]

Do you mean "was" since you're already in pharmacy school? Its going to be a lot of debt if you finish pharmacy then switch to medicine.

He could work on the weekends as a pharmacist if that ever becomes manageable. Study 24 hours a day during the week, then work some weekends for some money.

 

[R2pharmD2]

Do you mean "was" since you're already in pharmacy school? Its going to be a lot of debt if you finish pharmacy then switch to medicine.

I've heard several stories of people doing just that, which I agree is madness

I am firmly committed to pharmacy, but if I ever woke up one day and had a complete change of heart and decided I hate pharmacy and want nothing to do with it as a career, then med school would be my next choice.

 

[pfaction]

Do you mean "was" since you're already in pharmacy school? Its going to be a lot of debt if you finish pharmacy then switch to medicine.

Yeah, it is. But the great thing? Summer before med school as a graduate intern. $30/hr.

He could work on the weekends as a pharmacist if that ever becomes manageable. Study 24 hours a day during the week, then work some weekends for some money.

It will never work out like this, ever. I had a plan like this. After talking to med students, you can do an 8 hour shift and that's it. That's pushing it. The amount of things the med student needs to learn is not even 50% in a venn diagram between Pharm and Med - ESP in the beginning! Anatomy, Biochem, all that fun stuff again? Nope.


Well, when / if you guys get in and hit 2nd year to find zero jobs, lemme know. 👍

 

[30Percent]

Yeah, it is. But the great thing? Summer before med school as a graduate intern. $30/hr.



It will never work out like this, ever. I had a plan like this. After talking to med students, you can do an 8 hour shift and that's it. That's pushing it. The amount of things the med student needs to learn is not even 50% in a venn diagram between Pharm and Med - ESP in the beginning! Anatomy, Biochem, all that fun stuff again? Nope.


Well, when / if you guys get in and hit 2nd year to find zero jobs, lemme know. 👍

Are you applying right now to medical school?