Computer Science Job
- COMP SCIENCE BASICS:
- average salary per year: $90,000
- computer science is good for math nuts who are also very creative
- best districts to live in to make the most money:
- El Centro (silicon valley)
- Schooling:
- Required classes for degree in comp science
- Software analysis and design 1
- supervised programming lab (recommended)
- discrete structures
- computer architecture 1
- software and analysis design 2
- computer theory 1
- software and analysis design 3
- computer architecture 2
- operating systems
- computer architecture 3
- capstone coures in computer science
- Calculus 1
- Calculus 2
- Matrix Algebra
- Applied Statistics
- 2 semesters of a foreign language
- 11 other elective credits
- Bachelor's degree recommended*
- extended computer science classes
- TOP SCHOOLS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS:
- Carneigie Melon
- MIT
- Stanford
- University of California - Berkeley
- University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Cornell Univesity
- University of Washington
- JOB OPPORTUNITIES:
- Software Architect
- Information Technology (IT) Consultant
- Project Manager, IT
- Database Administrator
- IT Manager
- Systems Engineer (Computer Networking/IT)
- Software Development Engineer
- Systems Administrator
- the list goes on......
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Pharmacist:
- makes 116,000 on average per year
- best compensated are the
pharmaceutical and medicine making industry
- best places to make most money as
pharmacist:
- California areas like Chico, El
Centro, and Gadsden, Alabama
- very economically stable and
constantly rising over the last 25 years (in payroll and employment)
- SCHOOL:
- Pre-pharmacy requirements (Pharm D
- 4 years)
- general chemistry and laboratory
- 1 year
- organic chemistry and laboratory
- 1 year
- general biology of zoology with laboratory
- 1 year
- general physics with laboratory -
1 year
- anatomy - 3 semester units/4
quarters
- microbiology - 3 semesters/4
quarters
- biochemistry - 3 semesters/4
quarters
- calculus - 1-2 semesters
- Pharmacy school (2-4 years)
- requires:
- pharm D
- pass PCAT (pharmacy college
admissions test)
- 8-10 semesters of foreign
language
- competitive science GPA
(3.0-4.0)
- personal and profile essay
- letters of recommendation
- extracurricular activities
(community involvement, pharmacy internship)
- what happens in pharm school:
- pre clinical classes
- advanced clinical classes
- anatomy
- physiology
- pharmaceutics
(preparing/calculating medicines)
- pharmacology (how drugs work)
- pharmacotherapy (diseased
states, pathophysiology, epidemology, diagnosis)
- advanced practice in pharmacy
experience
- extra activities required during
pharmacy school:
- clinical activities (internship)
- 750 hours of outside work in the
workforce with pharmacy experience
- JOBS:
- different types of jobs:
- retail pharmacy careers
- dispense medications at drug
stores/grocery stores
- clinical pharmacy careers
- work in hospital as part of medical care team
- Long term care, "closed home pharmacists"
- pharmacist works at the facility, where nurses care for the patients, and the pharmacists dispense drugs
- Nuclear Pharmacy Careers:
- measuring and delivering radioactive materials which are in digital imaging
- requires very early morning work (hours range from 4 AM - 2 PM)
- Pharmaceutical Benefit Management
- negotiators between pharmaceutical companies and medical companies for reimbursement for drug costs on various health plans.
- Non-clinical industry jobs:
- regulatory affairs
- medical sales
- medical writing
