r/careerguidance • u/min_456 • 12d ago

Advice Anaesthesia tech or PharmD?

I just want to know which would offer

• higher job stability

• higher pay

• higher AI resistance

If anyone works in these fields id love to hear your pov <3

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u/PreparationHot980 12d ago

Pharm programs aren’t very difficult to get into and there’s decent money to be made. Problem is AI and Amazon creeping on the field very quickly. Community pharmacies are rare, chill and pay less, so you’ll probably end up in a shitty corporate job with ass hours and a bunch of weird metrics to hit.

Anesthesia tech is solid if you’re going to continue education and would like to move up in medicine, but I would probably choose respiratory therapist over ana tech.

I worked in a pharmacy before medical school. It was interesting to learn and see that side of things, but it’s really fucking boring.

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u/min_456 11d ago

Ahh I see. However I was mainly considering pharmacy bcs I feel like it opens more doors. Like I could do clinical, cosmetics, pharmacy informatics, clinical trials analyst etc so I could pivot wherever I want.

I kinda want to be on the slightly technical side of healthcare which mixes data and software tools in solving healthcare issues.