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Retail pharmacist is not a growing field. In demand pharmacist is one with at least a BS in pharmacology. Try to interview a hospital pharmacist or talk to a person in HR at a large hospital.
That's right, O*Net Online lists pharmacist as lower than average growth in the period 2014-2024. I'll bet this is due to the increasing number of people filling prescriptions online or via email. If the OP chooses to avail himself of the link to O*Net I provided earlier, he can see what the employment trends are like by state in this period (as well as average earnings).
Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT). Fun thing is, you can go to a 2 year tech school/community college and get an AAS in Medical Laboratory Technology and get a decent job paying $25+ an hour (medical lab technician)...or you can do the full 4 and get a job paying $35+ an hour (medical lab technologist). You can work in hospitals, private labs, government labs, universities, clinics, etc. Medical technology is an always growing/evolving field. Companies include LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics, Quintiles/Q2 Solutions, Fresenius, Grifols, Genentech, Siemens, Abbott, Kaiser, Ameripath, etc. It's really interesting work running complex lab tests on patient specimens with high tech equipment, actually being the lab guy in a lab coat and gloves.
For the record, I work in medtech/pathology/toxicology....no degree at all just a HS diploma and only 2.5 years experience in the field...started at 28k a year with 0 experience, now I make $43k a year with generous benefits including 16 days vacation, 40 hours sick time, 9 paid holidays, and a 12% christmas bonus... Not rich by any means, but much more blessed than millions of others and living a comfortable lifestyle in a thriving metropolitan area.
I don't know about that but a PA can. my college room mate became a PA and opened a practice doing just paps smears, rx's for birth control, all the stuff except deliveries. This is the way the insurance companies wil be going, less need for doctors exept under emergiencies.
We need nurses. Get a BSN. I know nurses that work for law firms, they can work from home etc.
Or one can go into med equipment/RX sales. Or work inside the med equip/rx companies. Or work in a specilist office, not all doctros are jerks.
Sure you might have to start in a hospital setting, but can move out affter a few years experience.
Don't blame you, wouldn't want to dedicate 11 years of my life to be a doctor. Hubs went to dental school, graduated and never practiced a day in his life. Don't cry for him, dentists make a fraction of what he does with out sticking his hands in patients mouths.
We don't need nurses. Nursing is saturated right now. Soon the NP market will be glutted as well.
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