As a pharmacy tech, it varies greatly, and depends on your disposition. Best case scenario is working at a hospital pharmacy, where most of your “customers” are going to be other people who work there.
But in retail environments like CVS and Walgreens… at the very least you need to be a very patient person.
Also, I am not making a livable wage, at least not yet. And I am not educated, lol. Though I am in the process of receiving necessary trainings and stuff.
The joke is that guys get turned on by the goth girl aesthetic, but would not actually enjoy hanging out with a goth girl when faced with the reality. The joke works not because there is anything wrong with being a pharmacy tech, but because it paints a picture of the kind of person you would be dating. People immersed in the culture the joke was made in will have intrinsic, perhaps previously unnoticed, associations with this collection of personal details, and the sudden realization combined with the dig at guys’ unrealistic fantasies creates humor.
The deeper joke is that actual women who dress in the goth aesthetic are not as appealing as partners as, say, sexy pics on the internet imply. The picture being painted here is the millenial woman who was a goth girl in high school and never changed. It wasn’t just a phase, and it turns out, that was a bad thing. It turns out, she isn’t actually deep and profound, but just has depression, and used clothing and makeup choices to cover up her lack of an interesting personality. Now more than a decade out of high school, she still hasn’t changed, and her worldview and lifestyle are taking their toll. She took a low effort path to get a pharm tech certification, and now works a job that has basically no opportunity for advancement or better pay, but which requires few social skills and lets her dress however she wants. One of her main interests is Invader Zim, a show that had its merits, but which certainly isn’t still worth talking about as a regular topic more than a decade after it ended. And with the outline sketched, our mind can fill in the rest of the picture - her, standing with a scoul in her black lipstick and fishnets, the mandatory blue walmart vest clashing with her otherwise all-black aesthetic, holding back a sigh as she waits for a customer to fumble with their phone for 5 minutes to figure out if this is the pharmacy their perscription got sent to. Next back in line, an overweight 57 year old contractor in a RealTree hat leers at her cleavage, which she has mixed feeling about because on one hand, she finds this man’s attention disgusting, but on the other, she knows she no longer meets acceptable female beauty standards. A complete lack of exercise, plus lifestyle of staying up late doomscrolling and watching tv while downing canned seltzers with her cats has left her overweight, and looking haggard and prematurely aged. And as she ages out of the goth/punk/emo scene in the mid-sized midwestern city she never bothered to leave, she finds her social circle shrinking more and more - the only people she really interacts with regularly anymore are her coworkers, who dress normal and don’t really find her goth aesthetic important or interesting. But she keeps putting on the black lipstick every morning out of habit - since the alternative would be to face the embarassment of admitting to herself that she should have left this phase behind 10 years ago.
It’s kind of like the joke that all bodybuilders are losers who work at rental car companies or supplement stores.
Also, this comment should not be taken as any actual condemnation of goth girls. It is just a description of the picture painted by OOP given our larger cultural context. I actually went on a date with a goth-y girl yesterday, and she was fun, sexy, smart, and had a lot of great things happening in her life. But no big tiddies 😭
Fam, this was great. Seriously, I go to readings by the fiction and poetry students at the local college, and this would be politely applauded. One point of order tho:
as she ages out of the goth/punk/emo scene in the mid-sized midwestern city she never bothered to leave, she finds her social circle shrinking more and more
afaik most goth scenes are pretty welcoming to “original generation” people. I think this is also true about punk scenes. I don’t know much about emo but I read that it’s having a bit of a revival, i.e. clubs are having nostalgia “emo nights”. So I don’t think she would age out as you describe. What’s more likely is that as her peers move away or drop out of the scene, she’d become bitter and/or gatekeepy and/or passive-aggressive so people would just start to be emotionally distant around her. Hmm… come to think of it, yeah, her social circle would shrink. But it wouldn’t be directly related to age.
Yeah, also medium sized Midwestern cities remain a hub of those countercultures, not because people never bothered leaving, but because they remain trapped, or maybe because thats where they managed to leave to. It’s easy to think that if you don’t wind up in a major coastal city you failed to make it, but for some people getting out of their home town and making it in the city means moving to Cleveland.
Is there something wrong with being a pharm tech?
The standing and walking gets a little bit tedious at hour 8, she’s going to need foot massages. Oh wait damn, another bonus.
my steak is too juicy and my lobster is too buttery!
This beach is too sandy and the water is too wet.
And I’d give it zero stars if I could.
I’m glad someone caught that.
Pharmacy techs are educated and make good money. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
They make a barely living wage in a job with high turn over because it sucks ass.
I know a couple and they make great money and enjoy their jobs.
As a pharmacy tech, it varies greatly, and depends on your disposition. Best case scenario is working at a hospital pharmacy, where most of your “customers” are going to be other people who work there.
But in retail environments like CVS and Walgreens… at the very least you need to be a very patient person.
Also, I am not making a livable wage, at least not yet. And I am not educated, lol. Though I am in the process of receiving necessary trainings and stuff.
The joke is that guys get turned on by the goth girl aesthetic, but would not actually enjoy hanging out with a goth girl when faced with the reality. The joke works not because there is anything wrong with being a pharmacy tech, but because it paints a picture of the kind of person you would be dating. People immersed in the culture the joke was made in will have intrinsic, perhaps previously unnoticed, associations with this collection of personal details, and the sudden realization combined with the dig at guys’ unrealistic fantasies creates humor.
The deeper joke is that actual women who dress in the goth aesthetic are not as appealing as partners as, say, sexy pics on the internet imply. The picture being painted here is the millenial woman who was a goth girl in high school and never changed. It wasn’t just a phase, and it turns out, that was a bad thing. It turns out, she isn’t actually deep and profound, but just has depression, and used clothing and makeup choices to cover up her lack of an interesting personality. Now more than a decade out of high school, she still hasn’t changed, and her worldview and lifestyle are taking their toll. She took a low effort path to get a pharm tech certification, and now works a job that has basically no opportunity for advancement or better pay, but which requires few social skills and lets her dress however she wants. One of her main interests is Invader Zim, a show that had its merits, but which certainly isn’t still worth talking about as a regular topic more than a decade after it ended. And with the outline sketched, our mind can fill in the rest of the picture - her, standing with a scoul in her black lipstick and fishnets, the mandatory blue walmart vest clashing with her otherwise all-black aesthetic, holding back a sigh as she waits for a customer to fumble with their phone for 5 minutes to figure out if this is the pharmacy their perscription got sent to. Next back in line, an overweight 57 year old contractor in a RealTree hat leers at her cleavage, which she has mixed feeling about because on one hand, she finds this man’s attention disgusting, but on the other, she knows she no longer meets acceptable female beauty standards. A complete lack of exercise, plus lifestyle of staying up late doomscrolling and watching tv while downing canned seltzers with her cats has left her overweight, and looking haggard and prematurely aged. And as she ages out of the goth/punk/emo scene in the mid-sized midwestern city she never bothered to leave, she finds her social circle shrinking more and more - the only people she really interacts with regularly anymore are her coworkers, who dress normal and don’t really find her goth aesthetic important or interesting. But she keeps putting on the black lipstick every morning out of habit - since the alternative would be to face the embarassment of admitting to herself that she should have left this phase behind 10 years ago.
It’s kind of like the joke that all bodybuilders are losers who work at rental car companies or supplement stores.
Also, this comment should not be taken as any actual condemnation of goth girls. It is just a description of the picture painted by OOP given our larger cultural context. I actually went on a date with a goth-y girl yesterday, and she was fun, sexy, smart, and had a lot of great things happening in her life. But no big tiddies 😭
What about girls who weren’t goth in school but later found out they liked the goth aesthetic so they became goth girls later?
Thanks Peter.
Fam, this was great. Seriously, I go to readings by the fiction and poetry students at the local college, and this would be politely applauded. One point of order tho:
afaik most goth scenes are pretty welcoming to “original generation” people. I think this is also true about punk scenes. I don’t know much about emo but I read that it’s having a bit of a revival, i.e. clubs are having nostalgia “emo nights”. So I don’t think she would age out as you describe. What’s more likely is that as her peers move away or drop out of the scene, she’d become bitter and/or gatekeepy and/or passive-aggressive so people would just start to be emotionally distant around her. Hmm… come to think of it, yeah, her social circle would shrink. But it wouldn’t be directly related to age.
Yeah, also medium sized Midwestern cities remain a hub of those countercultures, not because people never bothered leaving, but because they remain trapped, or maybe because thats where they managed to leave to. It’s easy to think that if you don’t wind up in a major coastal city you failed to make it, but for some people getting out of their home town and making it in the city means moving to Cleveland.
Yeah. Why are they all so damn hot? They’ve gotta be up to something.
Eyeshadow, mostly.
It makes everyone hotter, it’s just how it works.