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I also think Pharmacists had it too fricking good and were in a bubble. I was in college in the early 2000s and it was a ‘hot’ job. Graduate and immediate make $120k and set. I’m not sure where OP is coming from salary wise but there’s plenty of Ph.D jobs that are lucky to hit 6 figures.

Seems to me plenty of pharmacists had absurd expectations of pay.

while the supply and demand was favorable for us, it wasn't absurd to expect the salary we were getting back the.... however, when the supply became more than than demand, due to 3 things 1.) more schools putting out more graduates, 2.) the recession causing older pharmacists to stay in the profession longer, creating an inflated work force at the same time as more graduate getting out of school, and 3.) more mail order pharmacies, mergers of retail pharmacies (Rite Aid and Walgreens), and decreasing new store construction by those same retail pharmacies, that's when the salaries started stagnating and then, ultimately, reversing course....

it is absurd for any new pharmacist to think they will be making the money we were making 10-15 years ago, now, as there are just way too many out of work or new pharmacists that are willing to do for $35/hr what you are willing to do for $60/hr... its one of the reasons Walmart has recently had such a huge turnover of their pharmacists... they basically let go of all their high earning, older pharmacists, for younger, cheaper, new grads.... sad, really, but it's business....

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Posted by chRxis

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Posted on 9/23/20 at 11:00 am to Sebastian

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How is pharmaceutical sales these days?

how big are your tits?

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Posted by chRxis

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Posted on 9/23/20 at 11:07 am to WaydownSouth

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Someone with a Pharm D would be better off trying to get a MSL position. Its essentially like a drug rep, except you go around pitching to insurance carriers and state Medicaid programs as to why they should carry a particular drug. You are allowed to use and cite studies and compare it to other medications. You also get a guaranteed salary and don’t work off commission

ahh, yes, but be forewarned that these position USUALLY/ALMOST ALWAYS require a PGY-1 (at least) residency, which not all pharmacist do/have done/did.... in fact, at his age, and at the time he got of school, there wasn't even a such thing as a pharmacy residency, so I'd bet anything he doesn't have the required credentials to do that.... now, he could sacrifice a year or two, which he seems able and willing to do, to do those residencies, but you typically don't just apply for an MSL job, especially if all you've ever done is retail pharmacy.... shite, if all you've done in your career IS retail pharmacy, you are kinda screwed as far as prospective careers within pharmacy, unless you know some people.... hospitals, nuclear, clinical, infusion, etc, are all very unlikely to even consider a pharmacist with strictly retail experience.... they are smug assholes like that.... nevermind that you earned a PharmD, passed 2 licensing exams and have a ton of practical knowledge, for some reason they just think that retail pharmacists are beyond hope of being able to be trained/learn hospital pharmacy.... its fricking ridiculous and absurd, but it's reality...

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