Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities: Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners. They prepare the medication. Pharmacists weigh, measure, and mix drugs to make the medicine. They answer pharmacists answer patients and customers questions about drugs they are taking and which can be sold over the counter. Pharmacists are responsible for ordering any drugs which they are low on.

Salary: $33,000-$51,000

Education: Students should take AP classes in high school.

All pharmacists need to graduate from a college of pharmacy. Most pharmacy schools require applicants to take the Pharmacy College Admissions test, and some will require up to two years of pre-pharmacy education. Other schools will admit students straight from high school.

Reflection: I would like to be a pharmacist because it sounds like an interesting career and it is something I would like to do.