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Sep. 8th, 2014 12:34 amI'm considering taking a training course to be certified as a pharmacy technician. I'm not 100% certain I can do this because of my criminal record, but it was so long ago that I hope it won't matter.
We found a school up in K'town that looked like it might be good, but it's a for-profit school and I'm the tiniest bit leery of them so I hoped I could find a community college to attend instead. I wasn't thinking much about it until tonight when I was reminded by John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on for-profit schools and their predatory ways. So I did another search and discovered that Los Angeles City College has a pharmacy tech program which is not only two months shorter than CBD's but at $3,000 is just 1/4 the cost of CBD's program.
It's the cost that really sells it but I'm relieved to find that students will be placed in an externship (which I presume is like an internship) with an actual working pharmacy for a total of 120 hours over the duration of the course. CBD's site said nothing about this that I could see.
If this goes well, by next summer I could be working at a good job making a decent wage. I have nothing against part-time work in a grocery store (or any kind of work like that), but I would like something a little less hard on my body and which will provide me with something better than minimum wage. Or maybe I'll get through this and find that working in a pharmacy is just as stressful and offers even less chance for decent wages. Either way, I'll be getting out and doing something with myself.
We found a school up in K'town that looked like it might be good, but it's a for-profit school and I'm the tiniest bit leery of them so I hoped I could find a community college to attend instead. I wasn't thinking much about it until tonight when I was reminded by John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on for-profit schools and their predatory ways. So I did another search and discovered that Los Angeles City College has a pharmacy tech program which is not only two months shorter than CBD's but at $3,000 is just 1/4 the cost of CBD's program.
It's the cost that really sells it but I'm relieved to find that students will be placed in an externship (which I presume is like an internship) with an actual working pharmacy for a total of 120 hours over the duration of the course. CBD's site said nothing about this that I could see.
If this goes well, by next summer I could be working at a good job making a decent wage. I have nothing against part-time work in a grocery store (or any kind of work like that), but I would like something a little less hard on my body and which will provide me with something better than minimum wage. Or maybe I'll get through this and find that working in a pharmacy is just as stressful and offers even less chance for decent wages. Either way, I'll be getting out and doing something with myself.
