Pharmacy/Commerce

[Mr Keshy]

I hate being a girl lol, finding a suitable uni course is just so difficult. I was going to put aerospace as one of my first preferences, but then my physics teacher( a female) told me that its difficult for females to be easily accepted for an engineering job as she herself studied engineering but then transferred to teaching because none of engineering companies accepted her. 

I dare say that it could've just been her. I don't think she can label it difficult for all females just because she found it difficult. I could be wrong though. Monash have a scholarship for women doing engineering. Aerospace is pretty much Mech with a bit of fluid dynamics and stuff so I've heard people say that aero students are put in front of regular mechanical engineering students as well.

Don't know if you need to do engineering/commerce to modify cars lol

I'll design a door, and it'll just fall off because there is too much torque being put on it for it to stay in position It's useful knowledge nonetheless

[peterpan101]

I hate being a girl lol, finding a suitable uni course is just so difficult. I was going to put aerospace as one of my first preferences, but then my physics teacher( a female) told me that its difficult for females to be easily accepted for an engineering job as she herself studied engineering but then transferred to teaching because none of engineering companies accepted her. 

I have a girl friend that has just graduated and she said that companies are very keen to hire women engineers!
(she and the other few girls all have excellent jobs)

[MJRomeo81]

I have a girl friend that just graduated and she said that companies are very keen to hire women engineers!
(she and the other few girls all have excellent jobs)

Yeah same with IT.

[sluu001]

Dont let that kind of bias discourage you from doing what you enjoy.

Having said that, the aerospace industry in australia is practically non existent - so that might also be another reason why your physics teacher found it hard to gain entry into the industry.

[Fantasia94]

Thanks guys so do you all really think that it is really that hard to actually find a career in pharmacy. I'm so concerned atm as I have put pharmacy at Monash and rmit in my top 2 preferences. I seriously don't know what to do as I really wanted to do pharamcy:(

[sluu001]

First thing to do if u start pharmacy school is to get a job at a pharmacy - working as a dispensing technician and even a webster packer (if your pharmacy provides for
Nursing homes). These will be invaluable when you look for a trainee spot after you graduate and also when you do become a pharmacist. The market might be saturated with new pharmacists, but experienced ones are very hard to find.

[Fantasia94]

Okay, how about Oral Health?? Can you easily find a job for that and if you do is the pay good??

[paulsterio]

Actually there are some that can get in with high 80's. I think the reason they don't report the cut off is more because the cut off is so much lower than one would anticipate.

The reason they don't report a cut-off is because there hasn't been a cohort based on ATAR-only yet...

[Greatness]

Pharmacy isn't really a great place to be right now :/ Asian families still envisage it as a highly profitable and stable career but it is much less so these days compared to 10 years ago. Like others have said job stability is questionable atm, even for experienced pharmacists - particularly if you want to be paid well as the employers can employ pharmacists who will work for less. This is the case for students who have graduated, they get paid very low so some students are leaving the industry completely because of the limited jobs and/or salary/stability. I know a few people studying pharmacy atm looking to study post grad med or dent, even engineering now. Also, it would be incredibly difficult to start your own pharmacy these days you have the huge retailers such as Chemist Warehouse who simply dominate the market. They purchase in absolute bulk and sell at very low prices and are driving private owners and businesses out of the industry, simply because the latter cannot compete. I'm currently working at a chemist and I can tell you now that it's not exactly what you'd imagine it to be. The big retail chemists only care about profits. Management and the owners push the franchises to sell more, then everyone in the chain tells people below them to do this do that and at times due to this, store people and even pharmacists disregard customer health and safety :/ Also, the pay is crap - for everyone, I know a couple of pharmacists who want a pay rise but the employer won't give it... Everyone hates the joint, but hey, you've got to pay the bills and keep a roof on your head.

I think the Oral Health course at Melbourne Uni trains you to become a dental technician so you're not a dentist. Also, I'm not entirely sure but I think you can't do post grad dent with that because you don't satisfy the pre-requisite units for dent. Double check that though! I'd say job wise it'd be easier to get than pharmacy and the pay would be ok - that's just a guess I don't know any specific figures. Well according to this: http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Dental_Technician/Salary $30k-$68k~

[Fantasia94]

Okay, so now I am beginning to think that probably Engineering will maybe be more suitable for me atm. Now, the question is what type of engineering do you think will enable me to find a job easily, I'm a female btw, and will also provide me with a good pay??

[paulsterio]

Okay, so now I am beginning to think that probably Engineering will maybe be more suitable for me atm. Now, the question is what type of engineering do you think will enable me to find a job easily, I'm a female btw, and will also provide me with a good pay??

Civil or chemical

[Mr Keshy]

Okay, so now I am beginning to think that probably Engineering will maybe be more suitable for me atm. Now, the question is what type of engineering do you think will enable me to find a job easily, I'm a female btw, and will also provide me with a good pay??

Aerospace (slight bias).

Reason? Pretty much what I said before. But since you were inclined to pharmacy, how about Chemical? or Biomedical Engineering?

Someone else would have to comment on jobs and salaries though.

[Fantasia94]

Sorry for the so many questions I'm asking lol but how many years all together will it take if you wanted to study biomed then dentistry at Melbourne?

[Mr Keshy]

Sorry for the so many questions I'm asking lol but how many years all together will it take if you wanted to study biomed then dentistry at Melbourne?

Does this answer you question?

http://coursesearch.unimelb.edu.au/pathways/2-dentistry

[Fantasia94]

Yeah it does, thanks man