to be a nurse or a pharmacist?

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There are lots of professions, and its tough to choose what field you want to spend the rest of your life. I have a fourth year niece which on March will graduate from high school. She is really bothered what course to take. She wanted to be a pharmacist, but her parents bugged her to be a nurse. She is 95% decided to take the course that she liked but she is persuaded very hard not to pursue it(by her parents) just of the mere reason that pharmacists here in the Philippines are regarded as low professionals, I mean they are always mistakenly known as "tindera's"(sales lady/sales boy) unlike being a nurse they have always the opportunity to go abroad to work and earn more. I think her parents are really wrong in their view of the pharmacy profession, if they only knew that their daughter could earn more. Though, pharmacist may have not that big pay in terms of being hired in drug stores or private companies, yet if they will help her raise her own business (a pharmacy) could be a to their financial very big break their financial assets. Well what you think?