Are you being serious? Pharmacists have to do a four year university, get good grades, then get accepted to and complete a four year doctoral degree. Not easy stuff.We've only had one pharmacology class in medical school and it is hard as hell trying to remember 50 or whatever drugs and all their contraindications and side effects.And yes, getting into med school/completing it/finishing residency is extremely difficult, too. So if you really want to get the "big bucks", try to make it into one of these professional programs.Society values doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other health care personnel relatively poorly. This is evidenced in how much sports athletes and celebrities make. If people didn't pay so much attention to them and spend so much money on games, they wouldn't get paid so much.Finally, it is true that some professions are much easier to get into. I could very easily have become a teacher for very little effort or become a police officer or fire fighter. The barrier to entry is much lower than that of professional schools.They have important roles in society, but it is much easier to become one of the above professions than becoming a PhD, MD, etc.Not every job is as easy and some majors are harder than others, that's the facts.
RunninginCircle wrote:
Is it from being able to read doctor's terrible handwriting?
I understand that they have to know how the drugs interact with the body, but can't the pharmacy tech just look that up online? Is it from requiring them to go to school for unnecessary length causing unnecessary shortage?
I feel like pharmacy techs could do all of the job at $12/hour.