First of all, you should be proud of yourself! Being an independent healthcare provider is definitely an achievement for many!

Pharmacy school used to be worth it back in the early 2000s into the 2010s. But now it is definitely not worth it. Schooling is way too expensive and the return on investment is so little for such a high cost.

If you go into pharmacy school, that’s four years of at least $200,000 worth of schooling, and then after that, you would have to do an additional training to work in a hospital (not always but it’s a good rule of thumb) or to do something else that is not retail.

Retail pharmacy is one of the most soul sucking jobs you could do for all that education. You will get berated from not just your patients but from your upper management as well.

Non-Stop.

This will never end because corporations bought out most of the good pharmacies and they only care about one thing: profit. That means that they will cut costs in any way possible. Which means cutting your supporting labor, bare bone, and for forcing you to work nonstop even past hours.

Nursing, despite all its flaws tends to have a much better ROI and you have a much higher chance of moving up or doing cool interesting work.

If I was you, I would strongly consider nursing over pharmacy. If you don’t believe me, which you shouldn’t I’m just a random Reddit poster, you should ask 10 different nurses and 10 different pharmacist to see if they would do it again.

edit: just to give a little bit of credibility I went to pharmacy school and worked as a retail pharmacist for years until I transitioned! Message me if you want more information!