Okay, so I'm about to graduate from Pharmacy School. I work for a retail chain. I start training as a pharmacist (30 hours a week) in May until July (thats when I get license), after July I'm on my own as a full fledged pharmacist with no older experience pharmacist looking over me. NOW an internship at a great insurance company was just offered to me. I would love to be a pharmacist at this insurance company, better hours and lower stress than retail pharmacy. BUT the internship runs from May until August (40 hours a week). Meaning this internship runs the same time as my training as a retail pharmacist. So 3 scenarios:
1. I say no thank you to the internship and start my training as a retail pharmacist and start my career in retail, and hope in the near future I can apply as a pharmacist at the insurance company
2. I take the internship, I don't do my training as a retail pharmacist. Hopefully the internship turns into a job offer.
3. I take the internship, I don't do my training as a retail pharmacist. I don't get a job offer at the end of the internship. I can go back to my retail job, BUT the retail training is now only 2 weeks at most (since Im license now and now my wage has increased/double). In retail, they dump you in and its sink or swim. So the training as an months intern training is very valuable.
Did the math, the 3 months of internship at the insurance company is $7500 in pay. The 3 months of retail intern training/working as a license pharmacist comes out to $1200 in pay. So during my internship at the insurance company, I'll still be pay an internship pay my last month, even though I'll be license pharmacist and can easily make 3 times more.
1. I say no thank you to the internship and start my training as a retail pharmacist and start my career in retail, and hope in the near future I can apply as a pharmacist at the insurance company
2. I take the internship, I don't do my training as a retail pharmacist. Hopefully the internship turns into a job offer.
3. I take the internship, I don't do my training as a retail pharmacist. I don't get a job offer at the end of the internship. I can go back to my retail job, BUT the retail training is now only 2 weeks at most (since Im license now and now my wage has increased/double). In retail, they dump you in and its sink or swim. So the training as an months intern training is very valuable.
Did the math, the 3 months of internship at the insurance company is $7500 in pay. The 3 months of retail intern training/working as a license pharmacist comes out to $1200 in pay. So during my internship at the insurance company, I'll still be pay an internship pay my last month, even though I'll be license pharmacist and can easily make 3 times more.
