>be in my 3rd year of pharmacy school
>super competitive and backstabbing with women becoming the majority in the field
>pay is going down or stagnating because of oversaturation
>have to suck manager dicks at CVS or Walgreens to even have a chance at a job after school
>independents are dying so opening my own pharmacy is out of the question.
>already owe 100k in loans
This is the worst decision I've ever made.
College is the worst decision ever, regardless of degree.
kek, imagine believing this
Same thing medical school. It’s soul destroying work and you give up the best years of your life memorizing facts and spending sleepless nights in the hospital
>Imagine not
Not to mention Amazon is going to completely replace the profession in a few years. What a joke.
>women becoming the majority in the field
>becoming
They have been for a long time now, where have you been? If your job can be done by a woman don’t expect to have any job security
wagie detected
>t. stem faggot in his freshman year
I guarantee it.
This. Went to university for meme degree(mechanical engineering). Get paid internship. Realize everyone I work with including myself hates the shit out of it. Drop the fuck out before I get in more debt.
I don't know it always seemed like a sweet gig to me but my arch nemesis from high school went this route and graduated working at a CVS now so if the industry crashes and he suffers it would give me some satisfaction.
>If your job can be done by a woman don’t expect to have any job security
OUCH!
Women are becoming the majority in all academic professions because they receive a lot of support, financial aid, and work/research opportunities purely from being born female.
Doctors will always be needed. It’s the most rock solid career there is. If America’s economy tanks, you can take your medical degree to a country that’s doing better and make a good living there.
Pharmacists basically only exist because of laws that say doctors and drug manufacturers can’t directly sell drugs like they used to. There is no actual reason they need to exist as a profession that pays more than minimum wage to package and deliver drugs.
I'm a pharmacist (graduated in 2015). You will always be able to get a job as long as you're fast, competent, and have aptitude for managing other pharmacists/technicians. Avoid CVS/Walgreens if you can help it. Grocery stores are the comfiest gig.
We do so much more than that. Educate yourself.
i wanted to be a pharmacist for a long time but then heard how oversaturated the field was so I went into accounting
That was a good joke user kek
>We do so much more than that. Educate yourself.
Nothing that a vending machine couldn’t do
This is really good bait tbqh. I can tell you have zero real world experience with either field
are you vietnamese tho?
100 percent false. Doctors are going to get fucking reemed by AI. Patient contact ie, nursing, NAs, PT assistants and shit like that are going to stay. Actual doctors will eventually dwindle and focus on patient contact, less diagnoses.
Any college students here want to recommend this lost soul a major or career area that's comfy and enjoyable?
I'm an undeclared freshman University student taking a bunch of different classes to figure out what I enjoy.
I did some basic programming back in high school and enjoyed the problem-solving behind it, but I also just finished an advanced class in history (1914-1945) and got a great experience out of it. I have no idea what I want to do but I just want to live a happy, simple life: work a reasonable schedule then come home and play some vidya and not feel drained.
Luckily my parents can happily afford my time here in addition to the benefits and scholarship money I got. Any major or career recs?
college is the comfiest time in your entire fucking life. sorry you faggots are losers/brainlets. losers because you had a shit time in school (no social life), brainlets because you had to study to succeed and you weren't gifted enough to have your school paid for. fucking plebs, you are literal scum between my toes.
Vintage mattress store manager
learn a trade
>being this triggered
Top fucking kek my sides.
>Patient contact ie, nursing, NAs, PT assistants and shit like that are going to stay.
Agreed, but pharmacists aren't in this category. They don't change bedpans or help a person walk again. They charge insurance and fill bottles with pills. Nothing a vending machine running a smart contract couldn't do, seriously.
>skip college
>become “unlicensed urban pharmaceutical sales representative”
>$300k starting
>best move I ever made desu
Become a welder or something like that--make 60k a year instead of nothing for 4+ years. College should be for smart kids that know exactly what they're trying to accomplish by going there. There's nothing stopping you from going back to school later if you have conviction. Or if your parents are rich and you just want an excuse for a 4 year vacation, go ahead and do that, who cares.
>vending machine running on a smart contract
>nurse has to wait 10 minutes before receiving epinephrine drip because cryptokitties network congestion
>patient dies
What? There are like 100 different sophisticated pill sorting machines. Wont be easy but I could see it. Most of this shit is going mail order anyways. Pharmacy will die just like all the other retail garbage.
Just fomoed all in on Eth. Thanks.
? accountants are in high demand and it's only increasing
Shit like that isn't prescribed, it's ordered by a doctor. That's literally the only thing doctors will retain is emergency/intense care situations.
Not everyone was born to become a wagie user. Some of us have aspirations for better things. Also, college is a meme. 95% of what you'll do on whatever shit job you end up getting will be learned on the job.
kek user stop, you are killing me!
LMAO WHAT? The only kind of accounting that's going up in demand is business consulting.
>Pharmacy will die just like all the other retail garbage.
based
Pharmacy is a con. Get these losers out of business. We don't need them and other outdated human kiosks (cashiers) in the 21st century.
Accounting will be replaced by robots before Uber drivers are. You are just moving numbers around in an Excel spreadsheet all day. Computers are superhuman at that.
>he makes career decisions based on the clickbait article that ranks first on Google
Posting some garbage that bases growth on population increasing and everything else staying the same. These organizations are absolutely GARBAGE tier at predicting job growth out side 1-2 years.
yeah the bureau of labor statistics is clickbait
That almost made sense user, care to try again?
>trusting the (((bureau of labor and statistics)))
>Reading comprehension
This scenario, like most in life, will not require a smart contract.
Im at the 4/6 year of my mech engineering, considering changing to CS since this shit is uninspired as fuck, it will even worse once 3d printers become efficient to use
What were you wanting to do with that me degree? I don't have any CS experience so I can't comment on that part.
Honestly i still don't know, at this point i want to finish to get a wage to sustain a very basic life, i don't even want to have family or other stuff, im black pilled to the max, i just need electricity, water, gas, food and internet, i don't even need to travel
my main issue is that maybe mech eng are long hours doing really stressful things, meanwhile CS since it's newer it's more relaxing since people overqualify your abilities, my biggest fear is finishing mech engineer and dying from
an heart attack from stressful work
degree thread?
>final year of a meme poli sci degree
>no friends, learned nothing, and hate every second of it
>no job prospects whatsoever
>only took it because i didn't know what i wanted to do with my life coming out of high school
>Currently reviewing my math (trig in particular) so i can get a diploma in surveying because it looks cool
Poly sci is comfy and you can get cushy jobs working for senators and representatives and shit.
From my experience yes it was stressful. You don't have to worry about getting a P.E license unlike a civil engineer but you'll stagnate. Working for a firm sucks too. Maybe go into a field outside of manufacturing or construction(hvac) since it is so fucking cut throath. Look into me jobs in the healthcare industry. That might be a little more chill and less dull.
Do they pay you to make these threads to incite people against learning?
How stupid as shit can you be to actually believe this?
This profession is in high demand in many places and it pays extremely well.
my mistake. there are some internship opportunities in ottawa as some senator's bitch. you only have to fight every other person with a shit poli sci degree to death for that spot. i'm bilingual too and i can't get that shit.
Been a pharmacist since 2012. Listen to OP its getting shittier every year mostly because so many new shitty pop up shcools pumping out new grads so it got over saturated.
Any other majors or jobs getting worst like this? I want to know to feel a bit better. Also how is computer science? I've wondered sometimes that I should of done that instead.
Probably because OP is a pharma-tech himself?? You can just do a web search and it'll return tons of a salt from current pharmacists who are thinking of ending it on a daily basis.
I have had a hard life already, it would be hell to have to be part of the ruthless manufacturing world, i hope i get some comfy office job, fuck the industry seriously, that's why i thought of "starting again" in CS (i would need 2 years and half to finish CS because i would have some convalidation of main algebra, calculus and other shit) because that career seems more oriented to some office job
Shhh...let him fud
but at the same time i feel i can learn some office job as a mech engi that is not soul sucking... maybe time will tell
user, engineering is mostly office work, 90% of it. You sit in a cubicle, looking at a computer screen all day. You are either looking at specs/contracts/emails/CAD/drawings/excel, etc. Don't fall for the university meme where they show videos of people doing cool shit in workshops or being out in the field. Those jobs are rare as fuck. Engineering is not like playing mythbusters, this meme needs to be put to rest by university recruiters.
Then find a company like Boeing, that has an engineering union. There are always positions open in western Washington. Boeing has something like 80,000 employees in the state.
No matter the career path, you're likely to have to put in 2-5 years of shit grinding before you move up. Engineering is pretty bad for shitgrinding at first. On location jobs, 30 days straight, in the middle of nowhere surrounded by pajeets. But after that, years 10-40 will be cozy.
Everyone knows pharmacists become millionaires by inventing sodas
> letting women work
biggest mistake ever
whatever you choose to do, do NOT come back here in 4-5 years and blame /biz for all your life mistakes and 'fell for the x meme' it is your own decision that you have to make. If you are passionate about history do that. but dont expect to make a million buck from it. there is no harm in doing something that you love first to give you a little bit more confidence and have something you enjoy under your belt and if you want to do something else after then try your hand at maybe stem or whatever. what coding you learned in highscool will be very basic compared to university so you should focus on what you are good in and excell in that and when you are more experienced and more disiplined try and tackle something a bit more difficult.
I can relate
Even if you 'made it' to a 'local' pharma retailer/distributor/dev, you'd still be buyin' generic pills from Pajeet.
Just lol @ all these wagies itt.
Imagine typing with this much rage on Jow Forums and expecting to be taken seriously
counting beans for peanuts leads to unironic thoughts of kms
Hmmm let's see here...
Business - Either sign up to corporatecuck life that will be eliminated soon or become an "entrepreneur" and compete for an ever-diminishing resource pool (you may succeed)
History, Philosophy, Literature, Arts, etc. - Starving artist...
Psychology - possibly lucrative as the new economy causes mass hysteria and social unrest
STEM - That's cool and all but it's oversaturated, AI will soon catch up, and frenzied competition (just think of how many % of people in shitty asian countries study STEM, then convert that into actual numerical figures and realise that they will flock to the job that you'll likely want) makes it essentially dead-end
compsci - also oversaturated and suffers the same problems as above. Perhaps if you specialise you could find work (expect to do a phd to find lucrative employment)
Marketing - total fucking meme just forget about it tbqhfam
Finance, Economics - the holy grail. combine with business knowledge for the holy trinity. Even if you totally fail at finding a job or starting a business you'll possess a sound knowledge of finance, both personal and otherwise, and a good understanding of how the economy works
optimal route - drop out and kys because life is suffering
I have a pharmacy degree too, but even as a freshman student I knew very well that I would kms if I had to work in pharmacy store, handing out prescription medicine. From my teens I did insane amount
of introspection and soul-searching in order to carve myself a fulfilling and also well paid career.
I self-taught myself programing during high school plus learned the deepest guts of unix systems by assembling Linux From Scratch at age 17. I choose to study pharmacy to be able to do a life-saving drug research, but under condition that I will be handsomely paid for it too.
So how to distinguish myself from the abundant and cheap white-coated labrats in R&D? -During my pharmacy studies I continued to build on my programming skills and did every MOOC on coursera and edx
on that new shiny thing that then 5-6yrs started appearing called "Data Science". Learned a shit-ton of statistics and mathematical modeling. On second year of my studies I found out about newly shaping fields of Pharmacometrics and Quantitative Systems Pharmacology and knew immediatelly this is what Iwant to do. No professor in my country ever heard about such things. Had to learn everything
all by myself.
Fast forward to my graduation, one day after my final state exam I started a at big american pharma as a "mathematical modeler in r&d", working with applied maths PhDs from MIT.
tl;dr: pharmacy student user self-taught himself programming, statistics, data science and mathematical modeling during any free time left instead of partying. Developed an inbreachable moat and edge against fellow pharmacists and doctors. Be an unicorn, getting a big pharma cushy R&D job with just MSc. on day one and doing cutting edge drug research
High tier pharmacist. Congrats
>CS god tier
>6 figures guaranteed even if you're shit
>if you're good you can more than most executives
>normal working weeks
>no postgrad required
PhD here, can confirm, it's shit.
As a self employed former college dropout making narly 500k a year, yes college was a monumental waste of time and money. I went for programming at a time when that was the next big thing... before H1B could bring a legion of sandniggers over to do it half as good for a third of the pay. You have to become self employed to truly make it, otherwise your immediate future is always in someone else's hands. Generally those hands are a mega conglomerate that has already reached critical mass and can only improve value for their shareholders by fucking over their employees.
>we do so much more than that
um sweetie
Self employed doing what?
Future forty hour a week wagie located. Enjoy college, when you're done you'll be begging some guy with a GED for time off days. but you won't have any because you'll be an intern. Then maybe someday you can start at the entry level 7 years behind all of the people who got started right after high school instead of buying the college meme.
pharmacist here OP, short answer: you're fucked
Fucking checked. RIP OP.
meme. the tech to automate accounting has existed since 1991 and the job demand is still insane. its much easier to just throw a body at the problem then map out and organize all your processes
t. cpa and programmer
I decided to leave pharmacy at the end of my 3rd year after working in one for 2 years. Your post is pretty much on point, ultimate cuck job since CVS etc taking over the industry.
Pretty accurate. But the internet is changing a lot of things. Already so many ways of completely automating simple tax scenarios for businesses, won’t be too long. Probably a startup in Israel working on it right now.
What a LARP.
Nice one!
>soul searching to find out what job to beg for
kys
not a larp tho. you can do this too user. best edX and coursera moocs are free. best books and textbooks also (b-ok.cc, libgen.io, sci-hub.io). People's minds, even the expert's ones are domain-dependent. My main strenght is that I am truly able to blend multiple disciplines. That is not aditive, but multiplicative regarding your price on market.
I searched my soul for what to do best with my life, considering what I liked to do, what I was good at, and what can do difference in world in other's people lives.
I chose to develop safe and lifechanging cures for people using pharmacology, math and programming.
In 3-4 years I want to be independent consultant in my field and be my own boss. I also have a consistent side income from swing trading markets, because what I do at my job (applied mathematical modeling) is basically risk management, which is also core to my trading strategy.
>kys
If you do not feel useful in your life, no amount of money will make you happy. My favourite book from when I was learning how to trade for myself was (and still is) "Reminiscences of a stock market operator". It is about Jesse Livermore, probably the best trader who ever lived. Yet he blew out his brains out, being worth millions and his granddaughter today is an unironical pornstar (Brandi Love). So if you do not find purpose for your life to feel useful, You will end up kys, not me.
I hope you dropped out from a 6-year program. Otherwise, you're an ultimate brainlet for quitting right before 4th year rotations.
they are also prone to mediocrity and conformity. modern society rewards people for checking the box (getting a degree) and women are more likely to try and check all the boxes no matter what.
my buddy got a 5 year pharmD degree and is avbsolutely killing it. He wqorks at the VA, works 1 week on, 1 week off and makes over $120K per year and has tons of vacation time. I regret every day not being a fucking pharmacist.
share you business plan or stop larping faggot
You know we don't actually count numbers anymore right?
The accounting field is already automated and has been for decades. Us accountants control and manage these automated systems and perform critical decision making. Unless the machines suddenly develop sentience (unlikely, Hard AI is probably impossible) there will still be accountants.
I'm in cs right now but I feel that it's a waste of time and right now programming is so over saturated that I worry I will even be able to land a job with a degree.
when chosing a degree, you do not look for what pays today, but what will be around in 10-15years at least in todays shape, probably better. Being a pharmacist in deugstore is not future-proof. 1in10 of best pharmacists will keep the job ,even have increased competencies and get rid of repetitive chores, but 9in10 will be replaced by machine-learning-powered vending machine operated by amazon or fighting for scraps
What's preventing Doctors from being automated like most other medical careers within the next ten years other than laws and human regulation?
Thanks for making me feel good about choosing Finance again, user
I'm sure that guy hasn't given your worthless ass a second thought since graduating.
You sound like a bitter loser.
>got degree in chemical meme engineering
>secure job at concrete plant, not super related but balancing admixtures and cement hydration reactions could be interesting
>I spend 8 hours a day teaching myself sequel and DAX because management just assumes engineering = code monkey
>spent 5 years learning thermo transport phenomena and control dynamics loops just so I can maintain a 20 year old database with IF AND OR loops
>yes I've considered suicide
Sucking dick, it even comes with free meals.
oh sweetie
ETH can't do smart contracts