Dentist is a pretty sweet gig within the medical world. My buddy is pharmacist. That seems pretty great too. Didn't have the chemistry chops for that.

CalvinBall wrote:

JUburton wrote:just hung out with too many dentists this weekend rly

dentists or hygenists?

dentists.

and it is a great gig. 3 extra years of schooling, maybe a small fellowship after that and you can make 200k and the sky's the limit if you get your own practice. it's absurd.

youre just an ANTI-DENTITE

JUburton wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

JUburton wrote:just hung out with too many dentists this weekend rly

dentists or hygenists?

dentists.

and it is a great gig. 3 extra years of schooling, maybe a small fellowship after that and you can make 200k and the sky's the limit if you get your own practice. it's absurd.

I feel like you're underplaying the difficulty involved in getting your own practice. Same deal with vet degrees. Most likely you went to school forever, you have a job people assume is getting you rich as fuck and you're drowning in college debt.

also you have to put your fingers in people's mouths all day

some people pay for that kind of stuff

Soren wrote:

JUburton wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

JUburton wrote:just hung out with too many dentists this weekend rly

dentists or hygenists?

dentists.

and it is a great gig. 3 extra years of schooling, maybe a small fellowship after that and you can make 200k and the sky's the limit if you get your own practice. it's absurd.

I feel like you're underplaying the difficulty involved in getting your own practice. Same deal with vet degrees. Most likely you went to school forever, you have a job people assume is getting you rich as fuck and you're drowning in college debt.

No doubt having your own practice is difficult but most practices these days are bought/transferred rather than built from the ground up. Even if you work at someone else's practice you're still easily making 150k+ working normal hours. Vets are different.

just was approved to leave early from work today to attend a soccer game and i get an email 5 minutes later that the game was cancelled for whatever reason.

an entire hour by myself with no responsibilities...what to do?!

hang out on bsg and hit refresh

sounds about right

pacino wrote:just was approved to leave early from work today to attend a soccer game and i get an email 5 minutes later that the game was cancelled for whatever reason.

an entire hour by myself with no responsibilities...what to do?!

hm...

jack it

ReadingPhilly wrote:Dentist is a pretty sweet gig within the medical world. My buddy is pharmacist. That seems pretty great too. Didn't have the chemistry chops for that.

Pharmacists can make good money, but for many, in the end, it seems like you're basically working retail at Walgreens.

TenuredVulture wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Dentist is a pretty sweet gig within the medical world. My buddy is pharmacist. That seems pretty great too. Didn't have the chemistry chops for that.

Pharmacists can make good money, but for many, in the end, it seems like you're basically working retail at Walgreens.

Me ma is one them. When places call her to fill-in for vacations and leaves and stuff the money gets real stupid. She has also managed to work at very few retail places over the year. And usually never ridiculous hours with lots of days off. 6 years of college she did back on the day at Philly college of pharmacy. And she is still printing money in a part time gig. As such she will be moving to FLA shortly and just returned from looking at houses for a trial run. All while being a saint. Good woman.

You can also go in-house at pharma companies and make bank.

Was chopping up some fire wood yesterday so we could have a fire pit last night and I hurt my back. I didn't feel anything at the time, but yesterday evening it started feeling stiff and a little sore, and now it hurts like hell from the left side of my lower back down to the back of my left knee. Holy shit this hurts, can't stand up straight or walk normally.

Bill McNeal wrote:Was chopping up some fire wood yesterday so we could have a fire pit last night and I hurt my back. I didn't feel anything at the time, but yesterday evening it started feeling stiff and a little sore, and now it hurts like hell from the left side of my lower back down to the back of my left knee. Holy shit this hurts, can't stand up straight or walk normally.

Could it be sciatica? If so NSAIDs help

yeah you pinched a nerve

philliesr98 wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Dentist is a pretty sweet gig within the medical world. My buddy is pharmacist. That seems pretty great too. Didn't have the chemistry chops for that.

Pharmacists can make good money, but for many, in the end, it seems like you're basically working retail at Walgreens.

Me ma is one them. When places call her to fill-in for vacations and leaves and stuff the money gets real stupid. She has also managed to work at very few retail places over the year. And usually never ridiculous hours with lots of days off. 6 years of college she did back on the day at Philly college of pharmacy. And she is still printing money in a part time gig. As such she will be moving to FLA shortly and just returned from looking at houses for a trial run. All while being a saint. Good woman.

JUburton wrote:You can also go in-house at pharma companies and make bank.

Are there many of those types of jobs available, though? Feel like the vast majority of pharmacists end up at places like Walgreens or CVS working the 24-hour drive through window. And even those jobs aren't as readily available as they used to be. About 5 to 10 years ago a trend for the big chains and insurance companies was to divert maintenance drugs to mail order or central fill locations, where you could have a handful of pharmacists sitting at the end of an assembly line "checking" prescriptions filled by robots for an entire region, rather than staffing each individual location with enough pharmacists to handle the volume. In a short time it went from pharmacists being a very much in-demand profession to kids coming out of school not being able to find a job.

I haven't dealt with any of that stuff since about 2010 so admittedly things could have changed since then. I spent about 10 years working as a pharmacy tech and seriously considered pharmacy school. Really glad I ended up taking the easy way out and doing IT stuff instead

Grotewold wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Was chopping up some fire wood yesterday so we could have a fire pit last night and I hurt my back. I didn't feel anything at the time, but yesterday evening it started feeling stiff and a little sore, and now it hurts like hell from the left side of my lower back down to the back of my left knee. Holy shit this hurts, can't stand up straight or walk normally.

Could it be sciatica? If so NSAIDs help

I had a really bad lower back for a while. I washed down a handful of some badass pain killers a nurse friend of mine gave me with a six pack of brewskies. Back pain went away. It worked for me but it's not recommended.