snlstarlette42 wrote:
 It amazes me how many jobs should be entry-level but require 3-5 years of experience and/or a master's degree.
Quite frankly, it's because they know they can get away with it. Get someone with more experience for lower pay. It made me sick to see a receptionist position listed a few months ago for a doctor's office. They wanted someone preferably with a BS degree. The pay was $10/hr. smiley: indifferent

I agree with waitwhat on the pharmacy school issue. It's not as bad as the law school situation but it's heading there. I don't know if the job problem is due to the effects of the new schools though. Most just opened and have not had their first graduating class yet. The demand for pharmacists was really big during the whole real estate boom. With this shitty economy, retail stores are no longer expanding so the demand has declined. But think of how much worse it will be once those new schools do start turning out graduates. And I will be right in the thick of it. smiley: frown Residency is the way to go from what I've heard. Which pisses me off because most 1-yr programs are really just a way to get cheap labor, imo.

The other professional schools (medical, dental, veterinary) won't have as much trouble as pharmacy and law schools because their respective associations were a lot more proactive in holding back the new schools boom than the AALS and AACP.