Changing Careers

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I left Amarin in May. I took the summer to finish some prerequisites and now I am a full-time RN/BSN student at a state university. No more pharma for me ever. The prereqs took me 3 semesters, 2 full time and on pt while with Amarin. If you have a chem or bio degree that's less than 5 years your prereq's might be doable in a single semester. Salaries for new RN/BSN grads are comparable to what Amarin was paying but in a hospital setting you only work 3 12-hour shifts a week. I miss the paycheck but I'm already MUCH happier and looking forward to graduating and having some job security and opportunities for advancement again.

I'd be happy to talk about my experience with anyone who was interested, as I liked all the people I worked with at Amarin. Good luck to everyone who was cut and good luck to the ones that kept the job too...
 






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I left Amarin in May. I took the summer to finish some prerequisites and now I am a full-time RN/BSN student at a state university. No more pharma for me ever. The prereqs took me 3 semesters, 2 full time and on pt while with Amarin. If you have a chem or bio degree that's less than 5 years your prereq's might be doable in a single semester. Salaries for new RN/BSN grads are comparable to what Amarin was paying but in a hospital setting you only work 3 12-hour shifts a week. I miss the paycheck but I'm already MUCH happier and looking forward to graduating and having some job security and opportunities for advancement again.

I'd be happy to talk about my experience with anyone who was interested, as I liked all the people I worked with at Amarin. Good luck to everyone who was cut and good luck to the ones that kept the job too...
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Who cares about what you are doing. Most people cant go a semester or two without a pay check
 






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Who cares about what you are doing. Most people cant go a semester or two without a pay check
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Collect unemployment for the first semester. After the 1st semester in nursing school I'll be able to work as a student nurse when I get my CNA license. There's also lots of scholarship and grant $$$ for nursing students.

If you don't have the savings to go 3-6 months without a paycheck you missed a big lesson from the 2008 meltdown. Since 2009 we've live in a house we can comfortably afford on one income. My post is about changing careers, not changing JOBS, if you can't afford to go back to school, then good luck updating your resume and getting another sales job.
 












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Collect unemployment for the first semester. After the 1st semester in nursing school I'll be able to work as a student nurse when I get my CNA license. There's also lots of scholarship and grant $$$ for nursing students.

If you don't have the savings to go 3-6 months without a paycheck you missed a big lesson from the 2008 meltdown. Since 2009 we've live in a house we can comfortably afford on one income. My post is about changing careers, not changing JOBS, if you can't afford to go back to school, then good luck updating your resume and getting another sales job.
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How about the ones that has kids in college? Your path is very unrealistic for most. In my case I have kids in college and less than a year ago my spouse had cancer and could not work for nine months. I have learned a big less in 08 but other things happen.
 






Lighten up everyone, the OP just put out an option. If you can afford it great and want to do it great if not, move on and get another sales job with insurance. Whatever floats your boat or trips your trigger.

Leave your anger at Amarin they are the enemy.
 






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Lighten up everyone, the OP just put out an option. If you can afford it great and want to do it great if not, move on and get another sales job with insurance. Whatever floats your boat or trips your trigger.

Leave your anger at Amarin they are the enemy.
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Agree, I think it is an option for some. Best wishes on new career.
 






You are smart and incredibly fortunate to attend nursing school. I considered doing it a while back and I'm a dude. Stuck in rep careers, pluses but mostly minuses in my opinion. I just hate how unstable this career is
 






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Collect unemployment for the first semester. After the 1st semester in nursing school I'll be able to work as a student nurse when I get my CNA license. There's also lots of scholarship and grant $$$ for nursing students.

If you don't have the savings to go 3-6 months without a paycheck you missed a big lesson from the 2008 meltdown. Since 2009 we've live in a house we can comfortably afford on one income. My post is about changing careers, not changing JOBS, if you can't afford to go back to school, then good luck updating your resume and getting another sales job.
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Hey C!
 
























You are a total asswipe. Nurses are incredibly important to medical care and to the healing process. To make a comment like that is just plain ignorant. You obviously haven't had a family member or even yourself in the hospital, nursing home, or hospice lately. I have seen their incredible caring for my aging parents and friends. I am a sales guy, but I am just utterly pissed off at your comment. You are a loser, and karma has a way of biting one in the ass. You better hope for a kind and caring nurse you piece of garbage.
 


















But, who will deliver lunch for the lard-ass nurses and bovine office staff if there are no more sales reps? Who will AB blame for his own failures? Damn you Obama, damn you!
 












Re: Changing Careers; OP Again

This is the OP and I am highjacking this thread to talk about nursing again as a career option for displaced reps. Nurses make good money and it is a respected profession. We already know how to learn drugs and deal with difficult doctors, right? It takes a little persistence and creativity to deal with difficult patients and families, but pharma reps are good at that too.

One thing I wanted to add was that when looking at nursing school, there are three routes you can take: One you can become an LPN in a single year, but LPN's make less than RN's. If you can't afford to be in school for 2 years you can at least get into the profession and work your way up. Second you can become what's called an RN/ADN, which is a 2-year associate's degree from a community college. Good that you're an RN, bad that you get shut out of the best paid jobs because you don't have a BSN.

Third choice is what I'm doing, RN/BSN. Two years and the best job opportunities and money for new nursing grads. Down the road I can get a Master's, as I already have a business degree, and move into management. I can also practice for 2-3 years and then go back to school to become a Nurse Practitioner or a Nurse Anesthetist. I saw a job listing on Indeed.com for a psych NP that started at $105k and the average annual salary for a CRNA is $165k. A few years out an RN/BSN can make close to $100k per year in big cities too without overtime. Made sense to me in terms of replacing the money I made as a rep.

Intelligent replies invited. Stupid replies better be funny as hell.
 






Forget about the virtues of nursing, or absence thereof, it's all about economics. While it may be a sucky job, at least you can make $65-$85k a year as a pharma sales rep. You are talking about a path of 5-6 years to wind up making around $150k at best. That's 5 or 6 years paying tuition and deferring the $65-85k in salary. Do the math.
 












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