when I grow up I want to be a dentist or a pharmacics which one pays more?

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How much an hour and how much a year

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Both are good choices right now.

With Walgreens and CVS having their little expansion war, being a Pharmacist is a good option. You can make up to $100,000 right out of school. The unfortunate part of being a Pharmacist is that most pharmacists hate their jobs. Computers check all the drug interactions and pharmacists are basically pill-counters. My friend is a pharmacologist (he makes the drugs) and has many friends who became pharmacists. He said they all have beautiful houses and they make tons of money, but they're not very happy with their occupations because it's very boring counting pills all day long. However, there are some nice perks. If you're willing to work nights or go into less desirable neighborhoods, they will pay you more and sometimes even give you a free car as a sign-on bonus. One of my friend's acquaintances took a job is a bad neighborhood and works nights. He started at $125,000 a year and they gave him a brand new 5-Series BMW as a sign-on bonus. Unfortunately, the BMW was stolen the first week he was working there. It was replaced through his insurance, but now he drives a beater to work. All in all, you might make a lot of money and get some nice perks, but you probably won't enjoy your job. Also, if you keep an eye out, you won't see many older pharmacists. Many of them retire early because they can't stand the tedium of the job.

As for becomming a dentist, this is also a great option. I am speaking from experience here. If you go to a state school, the tuition is pretty reasonable. If you go to a private school, you'll be paying for quite awhile on those loans. When you start off as a dentist, you have three main options (there are others, but this is what most do). You can work for another dentist, you can buy an existing practice, or you can start your own practice. If you work for another dentist, you won't be making very much money. If you buy an existing practice, you'll be paying off school loans as well as the loans you took out to purchase the practice. However, on the upside, you'll start out with a full list of patients. Two other downsides to this is that some of those patients will leave because they're used to the dentist you purchased the business from and more importantly, it can be difficult to find a dentist who is willing to sell his practice when he's ready to retire (many just hire new grads so they can still own the practice and have someone else do the work). The last option is opening your own practice. This can be difficult because you have no patients when you open for business, but if you hang in there, it'll eventually work out. You'll have a couple hard years, but once you get more patients and you start paying down those loans, the cash will start to build up. You could also get in on an HMO. They're tricky to deal with and HMO dentists are notorious for doing lousy work, but that's because HMO's only pay a certain amount of money per patient. The upside is that you're guaranteed to get an instant 10,000 patients and you get paid whether the patients show up or not. The downside is that you only get paid a certain amount for each patient and you're also only given 15 minutes with each patient. So if one patient needs a cleaning, you make money. If one patient needs dentures, you lose money. However, it works out becuase a third of the people never make appointments to see you, another third is routine stuff that doesn't cost you much in overhead, and the other third is expensive stuff, but you are forced to be cheap with materials so you don't lose too much money. It sounds strange, but it does work out. However, you don't get to spend time with patients and have any sort of relationship with them because the HMO forces you to run your practice like an assembly line. Overall, if you start a practice and work at it on your own, you'll probably "make-ends-meet" for a year or two. Then, you'll live comfortably for another seven or eight years. Once you hit the ten year mark, your loans should be getting paid off, your patient base should be substantial, and you'll start raking in the cash. By the time you hit 20 years, you should be living quite a life of luxury.

Both occupations have merit, but personally, I'd go for dentistry. With pharmacy, there's no struggling right out of school, but you have a monotonous job. With dentistry, you stuggle a little after you graduate, but every day is something new and every patient has something different. Plus, you get the title of "Doctor." Even when you get a Pharm. D (Doctorate of Pharmacy), they don't call you "Doctor." So, to me, it's a no-brainer. Be a dentist, struggle a bit at first, but reap the benefits of the hard work and a title of prestige.

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Orthandontist pays very well. So go for a dentist

dentist but it is much more stressful and the cost of schooling is higher.

A dentist pays more than a pharmacist, but don't only choose your career for how much it pay, also consider how fufilling it would be.

Both r rewarding careers. Follow your heart.

Dentist, especially if you have your own clinic. You have to shell out more money at the start to go to school and to start yourclinic but you will get the returns fairly quickly.

dentist thy extract more

Dentists are better paid. But the cost and years in school is higher. I guess it all depends on what you'd really like to do. Try to reach your goals and do something you would enjoy. If you are going to study and work a lot it should be something you'll enjoy doing. Good Luck!

well both profession are good and does pays good as well... dentist may pay a little bit higher than a pharmacist but their is also professional risk of your a dentist and patient sometimes can file for a medical malpractice which you can't do to a pharmacist... basically the pharmacist gives you medicine on doctor's prescription whether it's the right medicine prescribe by your doctor any complication against a medicine given by a pharmacist... the pharmacist is not liable with this.. all ways thinks a bigger pays comes a bigger responsibility and in the medical world there is always a medical malpractice..

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