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Catching up.
Mar. 14th, 2010 12:28 pmSo since it's been quite a while since I've last posted anything of importance here, be prepared for a long entry on My Life in the Last Two Months.
Let's start with January:
I started back to Rotations with my Internal Medicine block. Which basically meant that for six weeks I reviewed patient charts looking for screw-ups. Actually, it was pretty interesting and I really do feel that I learned a lot. The big problem that I had with the hospital is that my workstation was in the break room. Now, in the beginning I didn't think this would be so bad - I mean, being right by the coffee is Not Necessarily a Bad Thing. But oh, how wrong I was. Being incessantly asked about the weather (from where I was sitting, the window looked liked a mirror and I couldn't even see anything outside!), and having to listen to the same griping, inane conversations over and over nearly drove me to the brink. Not to mention having to listen to one of the technicians talk on her cell phone all the time. In Russian. There are no words to describe the lack of etiquette there.
But minor problems aside, the preceptor was good and I got to give some presentations to the pharmacy staff about new drugs and medical journal articles, so at the very least I was exposed to some more things.
January also brought me the first of my Pharmacy Residency interviews. This was a County Hospital not far from my parent's home, so if I got the residency I could at least save some money and move back home for a year. I really liked the people I interviewed with, and could really see myself being happy working there...except for the hours. 10-11 hour days, five days a week? Um, no. So that was a definite black eye for that site.
February was nothing if not an eventful month, in so many ways!
I had my second residency interview at the Catholic hospital where I did my Internal Medicine rotation. This is where I would probably be happiest to end up, if only because the hours are normal. I'm really, really over the whole "work tons of hours for nothing!" mentality. The disadvantage of this site, of course, is continuing to have to deal with some of those really annoying employees.
This month also brought the start of a new rotation. I started my Community Pharmacy rotation at a really small, nice little semi-independent pharmacy (which is associated with the hospital I did Internal Medicine at). The customers are way nicer than at CVS, and there's a lot of hospice work involved as well. Plus, the people I work with are a hoot. We laugh every day and have a good time! If only I didn't have to stand all day (which is killing my feet and back), I could really see myself working somewhere like there.
But the big news of February is that I NO LONGER WORK FOR CVS! There is actually a humorous story associated with this. I was at a Career Fair a few weeks ago and right before I was going to interview with CVS (out of courtesy, if nothing else), I was getting a call from my home store. Well, I didn't answer it right away, but at the end of the day, I listened to my messages and it was a call from one of my pharmacists saying "I don't know what you've been told, but we still really need you to work this Sunday." I was like "huh? Wouldn't I normally work on Sunday like every week?" So I gave her a call back, and it turns out our regional manager had been in that week and said that I was no longer working for the company. Which was news to everyone. Including me. Nobody ever called me or anything. Assholes. So AT WORK on that Sunday, I got the call from my manager that I was being let go, basically because I didn't sign with the company ages ago and instead wanted to pursue the option of residency.
And you know what? Once I found out I had all the hours I needed for my license, I didn't really care. CVS was slowly poisoning me the longer I stayed there. It's a bad company that treats their employees like dirt, and aside from the paycheck I don't think I'll miss anything about working for them. It's nice to have my Sundays back, too.
So that's where I am now. Graduation is coming up in two months, and I'm really, really ready to be done with this whole school thing. Six years is a long time to be working toward something. :)
Let's start with January:
I started back to Rotations with my Internal Medicine block. Which basically meant that for six weeks I reviewed patient charts looking for screw-ups. Actually, it was pretty interesting and I really do feel that I learned a lot. The big problem that I had with the hospital is that my workstation was in the break room. Now, in the beginning I didn't think this would be so bad - I mean, being right by the coffee is Not Necessarily a Bad Thing. But oh, how wrong I was. Being incessantly asked about the weather (from where I was sitting, the window looked liked a mirror and I couldn't even see anything outside!), and having to listen to the same griping, inane conversations over and over nearly drove me to the brink. Not to mention having to listen to one of the technicians talk on her cell phone all the time. In Russian. There are no words to describe the lack of etiquette there.
But minor problems aside, the preceptor was good and I got to give some presentations to the pharmacy staff about new drugs and medical journal articles, so at the very least I was exposed to some more things.
January also brought me the first of my Pharmacy Residency interviews. This was a County Hospital not far from my parent's home, so if I got the residency I could at least save some money and move back home for a year. I really liked the people I interviewed with, and could really see myself being happy working there...except for the hours. 10-11 hour days, five days a week? Um, no. So that was a definite black eye for that site.
February was nothing if not an eventful month, in so many ways!
I had my second residency interview at the Catholic hospital where I did my Internal Medicine rotation. This is where I would probably be happiest to end up, if only because the hours are normal. I'm really, really over the whole "work tons of hours for nothing!" mentality. The disadvantage of this site, of course, is continuing to have to deal with some of those really annoying employees.
This month also brought the start of a new rotation. I started my Community Pharmacy rotation at a really small, nice little semi-independent pharmacy (which is associated with the hospital I did Internal Medicine at). The customers are way nicer than at CVS, and there's a lot of hospice work involved as well. Plus, the people I work with are a hoot. We laugh every day and have a good time! If only I didn't have to stand all day (which is killing my feet and back), I could really see myself working somewhere like there.
But the big news of February is that I NO LONGER WORK FOR CVS! There is actually a humorous story associated with this. I was at a Career Fair a few weeks ago and right before I was going to interview with CVS (out of courtesy, if nothing else), I was getting a call from my home store. Well, I didn't answer it right away, but at the end of the day, I listened to my messages and it was a call from one of my pharmacists saying "I don't know what you've been told, but we still really need you to work this Sunday." I was like "huh? Wouldn't I normally work on Sunday like every week?" So I gave her a call back, and it turns out our regional manager had been in that week and said that I was no longer working for the company. Which was news to everyone. Including me. Nobody ever called me or anything. Assholes. So AT WORK on that Sunday, I got the call from my manager that I was being let go, basically because I didn't sign with the company ages ago and instead wanted to pursue the option of residency.
And you know what? Once I found out I had all the hours I needed for my license, I didn't really care. CVS was slowly poisoning me the longer I stayed there. It's a bad company that treats their employees like dirt, and aside from the paycheck I don't think I'll miss anything about working for them. It's nice to have my Sundays back, too.
So that's where I am now. Graduation is coming up in two months, and I'm really, really ready to be done with this whole school thing. Six years is a long time to be working toward something. :)
