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I'm a college freshman and still unsure about my career path: Pharmacy or Dentistry? |
I'm currently a Bio major because I know I want to do something in the medical field...I'm stuck between Pharmacy and Dentistry and I need to choose fast. So benefits and drawbacks of each would be great! Also, salary, hours of work per week, years of school, difficulty of school, etc. Thank you! Well, I don't know what to tell you...I don't know what I want to do either and I'm 20, been in college since 2005 studied and recieved certification in Medical Transcriptionist and Business Management....now I am going for degrees I have a friend who is going into pharmacy....let me tell you the pay is great....and as far as I know you always have someone there to ask questions to where as dentistry you usually just go off on your own. If I had to choose I would have to say Pharmacy because it has to do with helping people a lot in an area people don't think they need help in...or are more comfortable asking the pharmacist than the doctor....Dentistry to me is awkward with the customers and I don't think people appreciate you enough...the see you as a money sucking wombat lol...and some are...well it just costs a lot and you are seen as the bad person. Whichever one you more passion for and could see yourself doing. I don't know anybody that has done both.......but Pharmacy has been good to me. I cannot comment with authority on the 'life' of a dentist. However when it comes to hours of operation, they got pharmacy beat by a mile. my wife is married to a pharmacist Jen there are just too many benefits of going pharmacy compared to becoming a dentist. The advantages of becoming a pharmacist are: 1) Most jobs are 9-5 meaning that you will have time for family 2) It takes less time to finish and be licensed compared to dentistry 3) Most starting salary are 75-150k depending on location and need 4) You can get $1,000,000 malpractice insurance for only hundreds of dollars per year. compare that to medicine and dentristry 5) You will have a life and a job for the rest of your life 6) http://www.pre-pharm.info for more information |
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