At the brink of a career change...

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[xeno]Julios wrote:hey if your wife is willing to bear the burden for a few, I'd think it would be crazy not to do this.

:)

that's my uninformed 2 pesos.
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You don't need a change of career you dumb fuck, you need a change of country.

Move to canada or some other backwater shithole that ISN'T reverting to the dark ages.
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If you are going to go back to school to be a pharmacist, you'll need 6 years to do it. That's assuming you are able to fit all those classes around your life.
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Deathshroud wrote:If you are going to go back to school to be a pharmacist, you'll need 6 years to do it. That's assuming you are able to fit all those classes around your life.
and also wallet, mind, and......... religious beleifs.
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Foo wrote:
Deathshroud wrote:If you are going to go back to school to be a pharmacist, you'll need 6 years to do it. That's assuming you are able to fit all those classes around your life.
and also wallet, mind, and......... religious beleifs.
But hey, my boss is a pharmacist and owns an Audi S4, and a $350,000 home. Which is not bad. :p
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Deathshroud wrote:If you are going to go back to school to be a pharmacist, you'll need 6 years to do it. That's assuming you are able to fit all those classes around your life.
I don't think he's interested in being a phamacist. If so he'd go to med school. It'd probably be less than 6 years for him, too, assuming he could follow up on research he's already completed.
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Pharmacology is a chemistry based profession, so some of his Bio classes might help, but even then you're still widdling down 6 yrs worth of work which is a lot to start with.
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TBH it doesn't matter what you do with 6 years of your life, from my perspective. So whittle it away on a degree, or trying to create a better Daikatana.

Both are equal, really. One might allow you to give people more enjoyment life, and the other is Daikatana.
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Perhaps, but most PhD programs are 4-5 years, and classes typically only constitute the first part of the program. Most is research, so if he already has a headstart on that, it could reduce the time required.

edit: then again, I don't know which school he's thinking about
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But did you ever play Daikatana?

Go sit in the corner.
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Post by Maiden »

follow your heart man. I'm in the same boat. I'm thinking about leaving what has been a damn fine paying job, to move all the way down the coast and being a part of something i truly love.
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Maiden wrote:follow your heart man. I'm in the same boat. I'm thinking about leaving what has been a damn fine paying job, to move all the way down the coast and being a part of something i truly love.
John Romero?
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lol, I'm not that dumb
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Yeah, I don't know if he wants to be a pharmacist. Or be the guy that developes the drugs for the pharmacist.
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So, do I leave a secure job as a teacher (which isn't all bad since I get extra money from side work like my textbook writing stuff), or go back to being a starving PhD student for 4 more years...?

Is it sold in stores or just in your school library.

I want one. You are so smarter in a way then I am.

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I find beauty in Pete's words.
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Post by tnf »

PhD in pharmacology - not the same as becoming a pharmacist.

I'd be on the drug research/development end of things (which some pharmacists also do...)
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Post by tnf »

I'm looking at one lab right now that investigates the different responses to opiates and THC in males and females.....might take a bit of discipline to work around that all day....
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Need any test subjects? All in the name of science, mind you. For the good of all mankind and such.
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Post by tnf »

It's way to early to start signing people up for that...I don't even know if I'll pursue it for sure...and if I do, it won't be until Spring semester of 2006 anyhow. And its all done on animals...heh.
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