The earliest glimpse of my future was at an elementary career day years ago. When I filled out what I was going to dress up as I wrote the word, “farmacist.” My mom was a pharmacist and I looked up to her and wanted to be just like her! So when career day rolled around I dressed in a white coat carrying a big bottle full of M&M’s to dispense to my classmates. Now so many years later here I am actually about to take on graduate school and follow in my mother’s footsteps to become a pharmacist. Of course my career path has been less than a straight line from “farmasist” to pharmacist. My passion and talent for math and science in high school allowed me to seriously consider a career in engineering. However, the more I considered engineering, the more there seemed to be something missing. As much as I loved solving problems I did not see …show more content…
The ability to reach out to help others on a daily basis just did not seem to be part of that equation. Ultimately I decided that a career in Pharmacy was perhaps the best way for me to utilize my talents, while at the same time meet my passionate desire to make the world a better place. What better way to help people than to give them medicine? From that point onward my decisions have been geared towards achieving my goal of becoming a Pharmacist. I realized that going to college for 7 or 8 years to achieve my dream was going to be a very expensive proposition. So I took as many AP and community college classes as possible to lessen the financial burden on myself and my parents. Luckily one of the colleges that had a Pharmacy School that I applied to also offered me a
This was one of the main aspects that brought me to this crossroad that I am at now and that I faced at the beginning of my college career. When I decided to go to college I wanted to be a doctor, so that is how I started out. Looking at the challenges ahead of me on that path I did some research and decided to change paths and pursue a career in Health Services. In health services I can still help people the way I like and it also fits into my plan for myself. With what makes me myself I look at the crossroad I am at now and all I think to do is to keep moving forward and straight. Looking back is a different me and going left or right provides many new challenges, so forward is my only option. Even though I will run into many other crossroads and challenges on my current path, I feel the way I am put together I can overcome anything that comes my
Pharmacology is the study of drugs. Pharmacologists, also called pharmacists, have many responsibilities and go through more than a few years of college to obtain this career. The average yearly salary of a pharmacist guarantees that they won't have a problem paying back their student loans.Also, many universities in the U.S. offer pharmacology as a major.Future pharmacists have a long 6 to 7 year journey to being pharmacologists.
I chose my past career pharmacy technician. A pharmacy technician assists the pharmacist in filling prescriptions for the patient. There are many different settings and positions in this career. My favorite is the inpatient hospital setting. The technicians prepare IVs, patient medicine trays, and sometimes packages them in the pharmacy so the nurse is able to scan the medications. Other settings include, retail pharmacy where one would interact with the customers, and the main job is to fill the prescription bottles, and sometimes mix up creams in the compounding lab.
My immediate professional goals are to become a licensed pharmacist and work at a drugstore. My long-term goal is to educate and advise the public about the correct way to deal with medicine. So, obtaining the Doctor of Pharmacy degree is vital to accomplishing my goals.
At the start of this, it was hard to narrow it down to interviewing one person. I had forgotten that I was allowed to give them a survey as well. I decided to interview the person I knew was farthest along in the Major. Her name is Maria (I changed her name due to confidentiality reasons).
I worked at this hospital for two years. During this time, I had opportunities to work with clinical pharmacists. Basically, I assisted them to deliver medications from the main pharmacy to other departments in the hospital. Moreover, I also had a change to observe clinical pharmacists compound sterile medications. Finally, one of my strongest inspirations for being a pharmacist is my wife. She supports and encourages me. When I have free-time, I enjoy walking with her along the shore to see the peaceful sunset. Furthermore, I also love camping and hiking. I hiked at Grand Canyon National Park, and it was an astonishing time in my life. Both volunteering activities and the support from my family motivate me to be a
Putting together a puzzle is comparable to the road in becoming a pharmacist. It involves patience, thinking from many different perspectives such as using trial and error to find the solution. As a freshman in college, I was doubtful about what to major but suddenly one day, I witnessed my mother’s deteriorating health due to her suffering from high blood pressure. This made me feel pity and if there was a way out of everything, I was willing to take that path to help her. During my visit in Vietnam, I also encountered many close family members who were sick due to many types of illnesses. Globally, people are affected everyday by new evolving illnesses such as the swine flu and there are no cures for most of them. I understand that if they just had the right medications and treatments, they would be able to live their daily lives. According to these reasons, they have influenced me in becoming a Pharmacist, where I can aid sick people in the world, especially those who mean a lot to me and put effort into trying to reduce the widespread of these sicknesses. Pursuing a career in pha...
I selected pharmacy because I have a sincere interest in the field of study and a desire to help people. I’ve always been extremely interested in science, especially in chemistry and biology. I began looking into careers in which I could continue studying these subjects, using the information in a practical way. Throughout my undergraduate career, I have eliminated areas of health care, and narrowed my focus to pharmaceutical health services based on my strengths. I know pharmacists face challenges everyday and I feel that I am driven enough to persevere and find solutions. Obtaining acceptance into a Doctor of Pharmacy program is the first step in reaching my immediate academic goal. My professional goal is to practice as a licensed pharmacist;
Many high school juniors, seniors, and even some college freshmen do not know what they want to do with their lives, but I have known since I was nine years old. From an early age, I decided I wanted to become a computer software engineer, and seven years later I still have the same goal. I still have a copy of a letter that I wrote to Google in elementary school asking them how I could eventually work at their company; although it embarresses me that I did this, it is a good reminder for me of how lucky I am to have found a passion at a young age. Besides my career, I feel as though I have always had a clear view of how I want my future to turn out. However, as I get older, the specific details of my “perfect future” have become less important
I should have listened to my gut in LA, and never started pharmacy school to begin with. I chose pharmacy school as a way to build career in pk/pd with a backup plan as a pharmacist. I knew, in case of failure, that pharmacy would bring a better life for us monetarily, so we could get to the next stage of our life. I
In this essay/report I will explain to the best of my abilities, my possible career path. I have wanted to be many things. In grade 1, I wanted to be a superhero, and that hope stayed out for a while. Later on, when I was 10, my brain started getting new ideas, exploring the world around me, thinking of other things aside form cartoons and I thought to myself, how in the world am I going to become a superhero? I started thinking of other jobs like firefighter, police officer, engineer, construction worker etc., etc. But then I decided it was no good. Then one day when I was watching an interview on TV, a firefighter was being interviewed and one of the questions was: How long did it take you to decide what you wanted to be? And he said a long time. Then I wondered how long a long time would be, I wanted to jump into the TV and ask the guy how long a long time was. Hmm, I wondered, how long is a long time and then I answered my question. “It’s going to be a long time ‘till it’s a long time, I’ve got nothing to worry about.” That question just flew off my mind until at the start of grade eight when I encountered this question again, and I answered it. It took a while and some research but I answered it. I want to be a Neurosurgeon when I grow up.
As I have grown up and experienced college, I have encountered numerous people and fellow students aspired to become engineers and doctors, all eager to become esteemed members of the community because of the status such careers bring. I, however, have always been drawn to the career path of pharmacy and becoming a contributing member of my community in that particular outlet. A pharmacy is in many ways a pillar of a community’s overall health and wellbeing as well as a valuable resource for medical and insurance related information. As a young person, I had always wondered what went on behind the high desks and cabinets in a pharmacy. I was always drawn and curious about the science and technology that was just behind those barriers that would ultimately bring good health to many patients every day. This is what peaked my interested in striving to
It has taken a very long time for me to decide on the path that I wanted to take for my career. I have almost always known that I wanted to be an engineer. I was always more interested in applying my knowledge to solve problems rather than just research and understand the world. However, I had little to no inkling as to which field of engineering I wanted to go in to. I had always been a dabbler, involving myself in a large variety of activities with the interest of learning about how stuff works. I started out learning how to use the tools in the shed outback, making pinewood derby cars and model rockets. I would help my dad with home improvement and repair projects around the house. As time went on, my ability learns and apply
Pharmacists have very important roles in healthcare from all angles. Physicians and licensed practitioners that write a written prescription, the pharmacist reviews patient history, health conditions, and interactions with the new medication prescribed. As a pharmacy technician (for six years) I had a somewhat of an overview on what they accomplished in a shift but did not know everything on what I know now from this research. Pharmacy students that are in the process to obtain their doctor of pharmacy (D.Pharm.) go through a series of training, education and internship to become a well-rounded pharmacist.
In high school my ideal career seemed to change from day-to-day. I tried working at a fast food restaurant, and ice cream parlor, a day care, but none of these led to any career decisions. I wanted to join the military so I took the ASVAB but I was not confident enough in my ability to make it through basic training so I gave up the idea. I wanted to be an architect so I applied for admission to the CAD program at ITT Technical Institute and was accepted. I was scheduled to start classes on June 12, 1989, but deep down what I truly wanted was to a wife and mother and the idea of getting out of Rantoul, Illinois did not hurt either. My unspoken desire came to the fore when I met my future husband in January of 1989. We were married on June 10, 1989, four days after my high school graduation and two days before I w...