Sunday, May 2, 2010

Pharmacist

So I'm still not sure if a mathematician is a broad term for many different careers within it. But, my parents have been bringing up the idea a lot lately that maybe I should be a pharmacist. I can't really figure out what that has to do with math like they said it does. I briefly researched it actually today. I questioned ask.com and the answer it spit out at me was basically that pharmacists calculate amounts of drug components to mix together taking into consideration the weight of the drug itself, the dose, and the time it takes to dissolve in a body. I'm guessing that it's more complicated then a little multiplication here and there and maybe a couple equations but I'm sure it's not that simple. Drugs are really harmful if not used carefully and correctly so I might be kind of nervous to "hand out" my concoctions to sick people everyday.

The reason that I do like the sound of this career for me is that I've always kind of liked the idea of working in some kind of medical career but I also like math. Being a pharmacist might just be the one job for me...