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Pharmaceutical Sales
ok so i have been thinking of what i wanted to do. I was in a doctors office and i saw this lady come in who was looking very cute in her out fit and i was checking out her car and it was a nice BMW. So i asked my mom who she was and she said that she was a pharmaceutical sales rep. Well i have been thinking and medicine is intresting and the human body is fun for me to learn about! So i was wondering exactly what they do! And how much do they get paid, thank you soo much! i rate easy 5s!
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They work for drug companies selling their products (whatever brands of medicines) they sell to doctors and hospitals. If someone works for a good company (like Johnson and Johnson, or Pfizer) and has a good territory (the town or the part of the city the company asks them to sell in) and they are good at sales they can make over $100,000. Go for it.
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Pharmasists fill out prescriptions and attempt to create new ones. They make $100,000, usually at base salary. Sales reps go around trying to get companies to buy and supply their product. That's in sales, usually around $50,000 base salary.
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does it matter how much you get paid if you're doing soemthing you love i mean i wish i knew alot about the human body because id be crazy enough to want to come up with a cure for cancer but i like to work with graphics and all that and im thinking about becoming a video games designer but my point is even if lets say i was gonna become a fortune teller (they dont get paid alot) id be poor but id be doing something thats worthwhile my time you know trust me you dont want to do somethign you dont like and bore urself to death just to make money
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OK. I don't know how much they get paid or anything. I can tell you what I know about them.
I have worked in Both doctors offices and a hospital.
Drug reps are not well liked by most. Hospitals usually show them the door.
Doctors offices will let them in because they shower them with little gifts in order for the doctors to listen to their spiel on how this drug or that is the one they should be prescribing.
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Well, hopefully if you go into this line of work you will make some changes for the better!
Paramedic though...if you want excitement look into it :)
Doctors are not known for their great knowledge of drugs. The one I worked for took every word the stupid drug rep said as truth.
So, what you wind up with is a doctor prescribing a certain medicine because some drug rep will send them steaks at Christmas and bring them free ink pens.
Neither of which knows or cares how the drug will affect a real person ( in my opinion). I truly doubt that all people educated on drugs are pretty or handsome but all reps are. Which only tell me they are chosen for their looks and not for their knowledge.
If you want to help people in the medical field become a doctor or a nurse. A paramedic is fun too and takes fewer years to study.
If you want to be in the pharmaceutical field become a pharmacist. They know more about drugs than doctors do because they keep up to date all all new drugs and what they actually do to a person. Doctors only learn what the drug fixes.
Hope that didn't bore you or discourage you. :)
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Pharmaceutical people make LOTS of money...basically they have to know a lot about medicine and how it affects the body. They are usually pharmacists at stores, or they sell the medicine to the doctors.
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