Pharmacy school applications hit record high

Of course the multiples are happy. More supply will decrease wages in real terms. And they have plenty more bods to burn out then move onto the next fool!

What a joke the industry has become.

Universities are churning out unemployable and unrealistic numbers. Where are the new job creations? Where do they expect them to find work?

The reality is this qualification has become as useful as a stint in jail. At least there your fed and clothed!

Good luck trying to find full-time work graduates.

Great work UNIVERSITIES increasing your bottom line.

How I wish I had chosen a different career! I am stuck now with bills and a mortgage, change is highly unlikely but what Pharmacy has become is definitely not what I signed up for. Graduates, Undergraduates and College students take heed DO NOT make Pharmacy your career put your considerable talents into something that will be rewarding and undermine your education.

*not* undermine your education.
P.S Lloyds has been peddling that rubbish about 'cream of the crop' for very many years as a consequence nobody in my year at uni applied for their pre-reg programme!

Yes its great, I have had to move away from home (Northern Ireland) to get a job, away from my partner and my family. They don't care about that though, when is it going to stop? How many unemployed pharmacists will there be in 5 years time?? I dread to think. If I was choosing a career now, it would not be pharmacy.

I would agree with some of the comments about the risks of too many graduates being produced from the schools of pharmacy and not enough pre-reg posts to let them qualify let alone jobs being available.
The PDA manpower survey would seem a very sensible step as long as it informs and influences the Universities and GPHC decision making process.
As for all the people who are unhappy in their role as a pharmacist, its not a prison sentence its your choice. If you are unhappy in your job then try something else within the world of pharmacy or in another field altogether. If you are not committed to the job or hate it, then over time your sadness will make co-workers jobs a misery too and most important of all lead you to not caring about your patients.
The wider world is a tough place for everyone at the moment and its even tougher if you hate your job so make a new years resolution and do something about it.

Its not that people are unhappy in their jobs, would just be nice if you were able to have job security. And I know for a fact when I go home in the next year or two that I will be going home to be unemployed... I don't have a choice though. Locums are getting paid less than £100 a day in some areas of Northern Ireland, doesn't sound like a professional wage to me!