Pharmacist

• 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