Do you like your job as a retail pharmacist

[LLUK77]

Hospital/retail is easier to get into than Industry. I don't think Industry does itself any favours- at my careers fair at Uni no-one from industry showed up - but retail and NHS representatives did

Re: Law - that is exactly what I am doing- but it is very expensive - esp if you want to do the BVC or LPC. Some people do set out wanting to study further but other commitments tend to intrude - family/ mortgage etc. My advice to anyone is to do it soon after Pre-reg. With fewer commitments, one can locum on the side and scrape by till the qualifications are in the bag.

[Asterix]

Hospital/retail is easier to get into than Industry. I don't think Industry does itself any favours- at my careers fair at Uni no-one from industry showed up - but retail and NHS representatives did

Re: Law - that is exactly what I am doing- but it is very expensive - esp if you want to do the BVC or LPC. Some people do set out wanting to study further but other commitments tend to intrude - family/ mortgage etc. My advice to anyone is to do it soon after Pre-reg. With fewer commitments, one can locum on the side and scrape by till the qualifications are in the bag.

Can you expand more on BVC or LPC. I really am exploring the idea as I truely hate retail and hospital pay scale is poor. Have you done such a course, would you mind briefly going into more detail.

[unholyteddy]

Can you expand more on BVC or LPC. I really am exploring the idea as I truely hate retail and hospital pay scale is poor. Have you done such a course, would you mind briefly going into more detail.

BVC and LPC courses are outrageously expensive- especially if you want to do them at the best institutions. For example, the LPC at the College of Law is over £10,000. Even during/after doing the course, you are still not guaranteed a pupillage/job. And in the first place, the law conversion course is highly competitive- with graduates from Oxbridge with first class degrees even being rejected.

[Asterix]

BVC and LPC courses are outrageously expensive- especially if you want to do them at the best institutions. For example, the LPC at the College of Law is over £10,000. Even during/after doing the course, you are still not guaranteed a pupillage/job. And in the first place, the law conversion course is highly competitive- with graduates from Oxbridge with first class degrees even being rejected.

If I was to do one how exactly would you it combine with pharmacy?

[unholyteddy]

If I was to do one how exactly would you it combine with pharmacy?

Specialising.

[Asterix]

Specialising.

I suppose an MBA may be better and cheaper.I have heard you can combine pharmacy with IT???

[Pharmanaut]

There are a few IT specialist pharmacists at the PPD in Newcastle, a few working on the CfH EPS project and a smaller number working in the commercial sector, such as First Databank Europe, and our PMR suppliers, such as cegedimrx.
Possible route is for you to do an MSc in computer studies?

[Asterix]

How long would that take and what are opportunities after as such?

[LLUK77]

Asterix - an MBA is defo not cheap - I have an MBA and after finishing, the cost for me (including hidden costs) was approx £85k - for one year!! - plus the astronomical workload meaning that even the odd locum is few and far between. But I would say go for it or consider doing it part time - that way you can still work -eg University of Kent is AMBA accredited and costs £17.5k for the two year course - but the advantage is that you go for block teaching - i.e one week at a time.

I'm now doing Law via the CPE route - I got in no problem ( phew)! but yes, unholy teddy is right - since the downturn, many bankers/city workers have been using their redundancy pay to retrain - Law applications have gone through the roof.

[johnep]

As computers have changed from a speciality to a commodity and no longer do we have to submit data to the Data Processing Dept, but can enter ourselves, IT jobs have diminished.

My son made redundant from his IT job a couple of months ago.

Just as shorthand typists, copy typists and comptometer operators have vanished, so will the bulk of IT jobs. Mainly staffed by immigrants from Asia anyway, or outsourced to India.
johnep