besides money?

My Mother is one, i think she enjoys giving the methadone to the junkies its a definet highlight for her, oh that an doing old peoples prescriptions, she always gets the ones that are around three pages long.

She did get me some good stuff last time i was injured though so i guess it has its highlights :D

if a samuel redman becomes one for the hyrdrocodone i can understand but realistically here, come on

i was just thinking that.

I was just at the pharmacy a few minutes ago and thinking the exact same thing.

free drugs?

i think it's really difficult to become a pharmacist though

The role of the pharmacist has changed drastically in the last ten years or so; it's more about being a care giver then just a drug pusher.

If my ex hadn't left me I was going to go to pharmacy school.

it seems like an over glorified job.
doctors even write out the lists for you.
then you go to the back and put them in containers and count them out and then you ring that shit up.

i almost rented a room to a stripper who was going to pharmacist school.

almost?

I think it's considerably more difficult to be a pharmacist than that, but I don't really know. I thought they were responsible largely for making sure medicines didn't conflict with each other and stuff. It still must be really boring. And you have to deal with old/sick people all day.

Nothing I'd enjoy more than standing behind a counter in a CVS for 50 hours a week, dealing with cranky old people, giving them medicine they don't need, managing idiot "pharmacy technicians" who barely graduated high school

drugs help people to overcome illness.

i think it might be an interesting job.

pharmacist seems like the easiest job in the world. from what i gather it requires no brains at all and the pay is good

its probably a breeze with the Oxycontin..

Maybe some people enjoy puzzling out carelessly scribbled handwriting

one of my best friends is going to school to be a pharmacist.

she graduated salutatorian from high school so she's obviously pretty smart, but she said the classes are RIDICULOUS and she's only in her 3rd year.

it's basically med school.

free drugs?

^^^^^^^

one of my best friends is going to school to be a pharmacist.

she graduated salutatorian from high school so she's obviously pretty smart, but she said the classes are RIDICULOUS and she's only in her 3rd year.

it's basically med school.

I wonder if you could make it out of that degree without prescribing yourself at least one-two different drugs to correct whatever little ailments you have... (not ABUSING the drugs technically...)

one of my best friends is going to school to be a pharmacist.

she graduated salutatorian from high school so she's obviously pretty smart, but she said the classes are RIDICULOUS and she's only in her 3rd year.

it's basically med school.

^ This. It's a lot of biology, physiology, chemistry, pharmokinetics (which is kind of like studying the physics equations that account for the mechanisms behind chemical reactions within biological structures) etc. I've entertained the notion of pharmacy school--because I tend to have intrinsic interest of drugs, the brain, and the body--but then decided it would be too self-limiting. If you really want access to all sorts of drugs just work in a university research lab or a similar experimental setting. Ketamine really is used as a surgical anesthetic on the animals...

it's basically med school.

yep.

I can't help but laugh at how uninformed some people in this thread are

when you compare it with tending bar or something then yeah it's basically med school but all the people i know applying to or already accepted to a pharmacy school are open about the fact that they are doing it because it is similar to becoming a doctor but with a lot less work and not too much worse pay.

admission to those schools becomes more competitive each year as more people jump on the bandwagon, but the booming growth industry of selling people pills for their character flaws and all the physical problems that arise from living to 103 will probably continue to make it an attractive career int he years to come