Pharmacist as a career?

Medicine is out. Do not go to medical school unless you are a top student with a realistic shot at becoming a specialist and you actually want to be a doctor. How do you know if you want to be a doctor? Would you mind being around the sick, elderly, and obese for the rest of your life? Would you want to serve these people? If you get squeamish at this thought, then take a pass on medicine. And oh yeah, the debt is absolutely crushing. Student loan rates are not cheap and have not been cheap for about 8 years. The stories of 1-3% student loans are long gone. Expect 6.8-8.5% student loan rates, with most of those loans being unsubsidized, meaning interest gets capitalized during both school and residency. Unless you are getting help from elsewhere or are preternaturally thrifty expect to go into forbearance during residency. You will pay about $500,000 in principal and interest for a medical education, and will lose out on average of maybe $400,000 in lost income from the training. You better be able to recoup those costs in practice to make the career financially worthwhile. Do not recommend. The number of pharmacy schools, and the capacity of previously exisiting schools, has expanded rapidly over the last 5 - 10 years. As in a close to 50% increase in number of graduates. Supply has gone way up and demand has faltered. Many programs have yet to even graduate a class. The job market is contracting very quickly. Combine the rapidly worsening job market with long educational path (minimum of 6 years in school, most students spend 8 years), increasing need for residency (1 or 2 years post graduation) to get hospital/clinical work and a high cost of education and you have a bad bet. Go with engineer.

I am Currently enrolled in a Pharmacy program at St. Bonaventure. Its pretty simple to get involved. If you were taking RN classes you may have fulfilled majority of the BA degree requirements. So talk to colleges with PharmD programs. If you don't have all the requirements make sure what ever school you go to has automatic admission into the PhramD program because some school make you reapply. Everyone Thinks PHarmD is a lot of work and it is. But it is way less work then becoming a Doctor or a Nurse in my opinion.