When you’ve done four years of college, and then four years of pharmacy school, you should be well paid. Highly trained and specialized should equal well paid.
If that was enough earning potential for the investment in education, we would not have a shortage. The fact that there is a shortage tells you that that is too little earning potential for the education required.
If you would like the salary, feel free to put on the eight years. You’ll have to do well in school, by the way, it’s not easy to get into pharmacy school.
I actually disagree with you here on one aspect in regards to the “shortage “ circumstance.
I feel like there is a shortage in pharmacists really because there are not enough extremely gifted and intelligent to fill the pharmacy schools classes. That is my first thought here.
Second related possibility here… How many students are taken in per year in each Pharmacist school program ? I’d bet dollars to donuts it is a VERY low number per school
Here in Virginia when I was in school looking at nuclear med technician schools… Those numbers were extremely low. 10 per University. And there was only a couple of colleges in Virginia who even had that program available.
There is a large shortage of RNs has well.
And that has hardly nothing to do with the money earned is not worth the expense of college.
It has to do with each school having a limited number of places available for prospective students. With some of those schools being very strict in who they admit to their program. Because they all want a board pass rate above 90 percent.
I can only imagine how extremely difficult it has to be for someone to be admitted into a pharmacy school… I guarantee it’s way harder than getting into a RN program.
And like I said in my previous post that Jessie was extraordinarily gifted… He missed 1…. 1 test or quiz question out of 1,000 for an entire semester… And he was so doggone brilliant he corrected our professor three or four times and he was right every time. Jessie went to a pharmacy school in Ohio. He was amazingly gifted.
There are not many people waking around like that. And there certainly are hardly not many people waking around, breathing air who can be smart enough to be a pharmacist, physician, orthodontist, surgeon. Those people are in the top 98 or 99th percentile.
To get into nursing school you had to score above the 45th percentile on a general science and English exam to even be looked at getting into the school. I managed to score the highest at the Glenn’s RCC campus out of 22 students being at the 89th percentile. I beat this snobby lady who thought she was the best… She scored 87th percentile. I got a good laugh out of that.
Now I know for a fact that an extremely brilliant young lady Colette beat me by a good wide margin. She was at the other RCC campus in Warsaw. I studied with her one time and she memorized 200 more cards verbatim and she could apply them at a blink of an eye. She was in the top 99th percentile I bet.