Better job Specialty Pharmacy or Oncology

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What is a better job to have, Specialty pharmacy? Or to have a job working in oncology sales. More stability in pharmacy, but is the larger pay-day in oncology worth the lack of stability? Also is oncology fairly stable, or are you prone to get the pink-slip at anytime? Serious thoughts and well though out witty comments will be greatly appreciated.
 




i REALLY hope someone responds to this thread, as I have THE EXACT SAME question. I"m hearing from all my peers at my prior pharma company that "you made the right move getting out of pharma.." also if you look at the most recent news about medco being bought, there's a comment from the wall street journel about how the future is huge for s.pharmacy and the workload is only going to increase..." so i battle with disliking my boss & the culture of caremark, but do i stay b/c "its the smart thing to do for now.."??? (see below) here's what i wrote in another thread.
"I was encouraged to go on here and read about caremark, despite already have taken the tse position with them. although i was encouraged this would be a "great stepping stone to get out of pharma/pushing pills" I am starting to resent that move. bottom line, there is NOT ONE OUNCE of positivity in our division(i'd rather not say where but it's not oncology) I heard Oncology VP is a huge believer in motivating his people, team building and keeping a positive environment. I cannot stand the lack of urgency, organization(another tse shared that he's assisted in getting the last 15 reps up and running and a single rep had a pleasant, nor positive, experience.) this is due mostly, for me, to the lack of support from my manager (who quite frankly is the worst manager out of the 8 I've had in my career) he has no sense of urgency, no positive feedback...I'm open to some coaching points. for the love of God give me some reason to respect you. his passion is like subzero weather. it's quite a shame b/c at the the end of the day this job could be a lot of fun. Unlike specialty pharma, this company puts as much focus on 6 excel spreadsheets(a lot of which are redundant info) then making sure their people are in front of their customers selling. admin and selling is 50/50 focus, versus 20-30%admin and 70% time in front of customers. it's a shame and i've watched reps drop like flies due to all the above. I'm regretting taking this position,...the only thing keeping me hanging on is our national director is energetic and encouraging... at least that's been my experience. these geographies are way too large to enable us to have the frequency to "our big guys" required to build that solid relationship we all know is half the battle.
best of luck to all...i'm in limbo if i'm staying or going to start interviewing. this culture is just way to unhealthy and disorganized for me "
 












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