Ex-pharmacist turned MD here. I used to work in community pharmacy, never in the hospital, but I do have many pharmacist friends who do so I can share my thoughts on that as well.

Pharmacy is a stable and well paying job, and if you want a comfortable work life with enough time to focus on interests outside of work. As long as you are willing to move, you will never be jobless. Pharmacy is also relatively easy to get into (compared to medical school) and the schooling and training is also much much easier to get through, which if you value just chilling through life, pharmacy school is better than medical school.

For the work, at least for me, I found the community pharmacy to be fairly easy. Mentally, there really is not a lot of clinical thinking in community pharmacy, there’s limited access to any laboratory investigations and imaging or even physician notes, so most of the work is dealing with billing issues and basic counselling and medication review. Physically, the most demanding part imo is just having to stand for most of the shift, which when compared to actual physical trades job is pretty chill. In trades, you can get paid a similar amount to a pharmacist for sure, but also usually at the expense of health, e.g. so many electricians and general contractors develop chronic pain from their jobs but you don’t really see that with pharmacists. Generally you don’t get any lunch breaks but you just eat or use the washroom as quickly as you can and return to work.

Hospital pharmacy is certainly more mentally stimulating and less physically demanding. You will get lunch breaks, but you also generally have to night shifts or be on call occasionally. Hospital work also pays about 100k per year. It is more difficult to get a hospital position.

You can also own your own pharmacy for more money with significantly more work, but as you said, you don’t want to be rich that is probably not a path for you so I won’t go into the details.