In Texas, there’s a career school that offers pharmacy technician programs that may completed in as little as a couple of years. This is just one of many pharmacy technical institutes across the United States that delivers an exciting, rewarding educational program that lets you do the unthinkable–work with drugs!
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “job opportunities are expected to be good” for the pharmacy technician. For a college student following the health care industry like myself, or for anyone with their hands even mildly wet in politics, the knee-jerk response is–”Of course it is! It’s in the health care industry, the largest growing industry in the United States thanks to national health care reform!”–but don’t be so quick to act. The pharmacy technician is the not the person you think of, handling the health affairs of individuals across the United States.
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