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Originally Posted by wooohooo
Haha quite true, but they also need the knowledge. There's more than just your superstore pharmacist. A lot work in hospitals and rural areas where they do more than just count pills. It's a good stable career to have, but it's boring as hell.
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I don't know about boring. In small communities, that's where the fun and the challenge is. Rural pharmacies have to compete against big box stores that fill prescriptions cheaper so they have to offer more service and varied products. The pharmacists here in Sundre offer a ton of knowledge on vitamins, natural products, home health care options, body building supplements, etc. They do the ordering, sometimes scouring the internet to find the best options available in alternative health care.
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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja
$120K sounds great except for the part about having to be a Pharmacist... Spending the whole day in some supermarket drug store on your feet counting pills, by yourself, with the occasional 1 minute conversation taking money from a sick person. With that kind of boredom, it would just be too tempting to start dipping into the supplies.
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The pharmacists in Supermarkets are exactly that. The supermarket pharmacists are filling cheap prescriptions with basic instructions and no personal interactions. There isn't an extensive front store side with lots of health care options, so there's no need for them to step out from behind their counter. Because of the shortage of pharmacists, they get paid well, and their lives probably are boring.
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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja
I don't know, in the two pharmacies near my house (neither of which are that busy), the pharmacists seem to usually be working by themselves at the back. I'm pretty sure they are pharmacists and not techs, these places aren't usually busy enough to have more than 1 staff. (Do techs work alone ever?)
Also, don't you get stuck with a lot of sucky evening and weekend shifts?
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No techs never work alone. It's against the law for a pharmacy to be open without a pharmacist on shift. Check their hours of operation. Small pharmacies are usually open shorter hours. And because pharmacists can ask for a variety of benefits (and get them), there exists a loosely jointed network of relief pharmacists that will cover nights, weekends, holidays ect. for the right price.
They might not be busy because of the trend of customers who want the lowest price, not the best service. Small, independantly owned pharmacies will usually bend over backwards to give their clients superior service and they make an effort to establish a rappor with their customers. That way, they can order supplies and products that best serve needs.
Like any job, it's only as challenging as you make it. Absolutely, pharmacists can pick an enviroment that suits what they want their career to look like.