re: Pharmaceutical Sales

Stability depends on the field you're in. My field is relatively stable, but layoffs are happening constantly in many areas. My friend was laid off at the end of last year due to some drugs going off patent, and she had left her previous company a little less than a year earlier because she knew layoffs were about to happen there as well. Also, some are contract jobs, and once the contract is up, you're gone.

I wouldn't want to go into human pharma right now, but that's just me.