Time to prep myself!
I have thoroughly enjoyed have a little break from working and school, but that is all coming to an end soon. I will be starting my first rotation as well as a job pretty much simultaneously and I think it is going to drain me of all my energy but I look forward to learning a great deal (hopefully!) and making some money.
I "interviewed" with Tim Walsh from Kinney's on Wednesday, but really we just chatted for an hour and a half and he went over the company's benefits for their employees. It sounded alot more like he was trying to hire a pharmacist than an intern, but I suppose with me being only a year out from graduation that is what my interaction with copmanies is going to start to be more like. He was really nice and made Kinney's sound like a nice place to work (which is his job so I'm sure he sugar coated it a little bit) but I'm looking forward to "getting to know" a new company and seeing if it's a place I'd like to work once I graduate. He told me I'd probably get an offer from the company in September or October...crazy to think about! Looks like I'll be starting out at the Hamilton and Chittenango stores for the summer, but once the college school yr comes around I should be able to get all my hours at one store.
On the 22nd I start my first rotation at Hannaford in New Hartford. I am excited and nervous at the same time. I feel like I'm behind all my classmates since I didn't have a rotation scheduled during the first module. I e-mailed my preceptor (I was going to call but then was worried I'd call when she wasn't working and deicded to just e-mail and then call Monday if I didn't get a response) and she got back to me today. She told me I'd be there from 8-4:30 Mon-Fri which is typical I suppose (although I thought we only we only had to do 8 hrs including our lunch break, not 8 1/2). Oh well, it's just 30 minutes, I'll live ;) I'm hoping Sara Siriano will be working there alot with me so I have someone familiar to lunch with. They're one of those places that close down the whole pharmacy for 30 mins for lunch so I guess I'll be dining with my co-workers. Also, my preceptor told me she's going to be on vacation the entire first week that I am there...so that should be interesting. Don't know if it's a good or a bad thing or if it even makes a difference. I started looking through the paperwork that I have to complete and it's moer than I initially thought. I didn't realize that I had to present patient cases in this rotation. Worse, they hav to be based on patients that I interact with so I basically have to con someone into talking to me enough so that I can all the nitty gritty details of their health and make a specimen of them. Something about that just makes me uncomfortable...I mean I wouldn't want someone presenting a case on me like that! Oh well, I will find a way to make it work...since, well, I have to.
In other news, my dad lost his job so we're really having to limit what we spend our money on. I hate feeling financially insecure and unstable and I know my parents do too. He's sent out his resume to a bunch of places but I know it's going to be difficult to find a job. I mean he was laid off because of the economy, so if people that already have jobs are struggling to keep them I know it will be an even bigger struggle to try to get a new job. Not many places are hiring, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for him. That means I need to be very financially independent. I mean I am mostly independent but I won't deny that my parents help me here and there and treat me to dinners and things like that. Now the pressure is on and I feel like I may even need to help my parents out. I mean I know they would never want to place that kind of burden on me and wouldn't exhaust all other options before they would....but it'd be nice to inadvertently do little things here and there to help the family financially without drawing too much attention for it. So that means I need to take all the hours I can get since my refund check doesn't even cover all the $ I need for rent and car payments. Oh and to top it off Joel was a tool and responded to my e-mail about rent basically saying he wasn't going to pay it and that legally we couldn't make him. I'm glad I never have to see him again because I've lost alot of respect for him.
This weekend I'm going to Philly with the family for my cousin's graduation party. It's nice to see family, but there are always certain family members I could do without....lol. I plan on bringing my book(s) with me and getting some good reading time in during the car ride and any other breaks in the action. The new season of True Blood starts Sunday and I finally got my box set of that series of books in the mail today so I want to fly through the 2nd book before the season starts...although I'm not quite sure if they're planning each season to be based on one book? I've gotten alot of reading done in the past few weeks and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm pretty sure my dad thinks I'm some kind of vampire freak now because of my attraction to that genre, but I really haven't been disappointed yet, so if it's not broke don't fix it, right?
i've gotten to see alot of my local friends since I've been home which is nice. I've hung out with Margi, all my guy friends, Colleen....it's nice to see all the people that I really don't get to see enough. I've known them all for so long that I feel like I rediscover old parts of me when I get to see them. They've known me during periods of my life when I was different than I am now and it kind of brings me back to those days when I see them. It's not like I have changed drastically and I can't even say I've changed for better or worse, but I have definitely matured and i think it's just natural to pick up different qualities when you come to know different people. It's not that I change drastically depending on the person I am around but different friends bring out different parts of me and some parts of me have been hibernating for a while and enjoyed the little wake up call :)
To change gears again, I've been thinking about my future alot lately. Overall I feel overwhelmingly excited. While becoming a real adult can seem scary I'm so ready to start a new chapter of my life, to be out on my own and find my own way. I still struggle with wether or not pharmacy is the field that I REALLY want to be in, but I think that with time I will come to love and appreciate it more and more...at least I hope I do. I'm ready to build a career and a life of my own. I have no idea where the future will take me, but I'm excited to find out.
I've gone all over the place in this journal entry, probably because it's been so long since I've written, but it has been kind of therapeutic. Someday I'll look back at this time in my life and I'll remember how it felt to be young with endless possibilities ahead of me :) So I'm getting off my computer now and enjoying that feeling! C'est la vie!
I "interviewed" with Tim Walsh from Kinney's on Wednesday, but really we just chatted for an hour and a half and he went over the company's benefits for their employees. It sounded alot more like he was trying to hire a pharmacist than an intern, but I suppose with me being only a year out from graduation that is what my interaction with copmanies is going to start to be more like. He was really nice and made Kinney's sound like a nice place to work (which is his job so I'm sure he sugar coated it a little bit) but I'm looking forward to "getting to know" a new company and seeing if it's a place I'd like to work once I graduate. He told me I'd probably get an offer from the company in September or October...crazy to think about! Looks like I'll be starting out at the Hamilton and Chittenango stores for the summer, but once the college school yr comes around I should be able to get all my hours at one store.
On the 22nd I start my first rotation at Hannaford in New Hartford. I am excited and nervous at the same time. I feel like I'm behind all my classmates since I didn't have a rotation scheduled during the first module. I e-mailed my preceptor (I was going to call but then was worried I'd call when she wasn't working and deicded to just e-mail and then call Monday if I didn't get a response) and she got back to me today. She told me I'd be there from 8-4:30 Mon-Fri which is typical I suppose (although I thought we only we only had to do 8 hrs including our lunch break, not 8 1/2). Oh well, it's just 30 minutes, I'll live ;) I'm hoping Sara Siriano will be working there alot with me so I have someone familiar to lunch with. They're one of those places that close down the whole pharmacy for 30 mins for lunch so I guess I'll be dining with my co-workers. Also, my preceptor told me she's going to be on vacation the entire first week that I am there...so that should be interesting. Don't know if it's a good or a bad thing or if it even makes a difference. I started looking through the paperwork that I have to complete and it's moer than I initially thought. I didn't realize that I had to present patient cases in this rotation. Worse, they hav to be based on patients that I interact with so I basically have to con someone into talking to me enough so that I can all the nitty gritty details of their health and make a specimen of them. Something about that just makes me uncomfortable...I mean I wouldn't want someone presenting a case on me like that! Oh well, I will find a way to make it work...since, well, I have to.
In other news, my dad lost his job so we're really having to limit what we spend our money on. I hate feeling financially insecure and unstable and I know my parents do too. He's sent out his resume to a bunch of places but I know it's going to be difficult to find a job. I mean he was laid off because of the economy, so if people that already have jobs are struggling to keep them I know it will be an even bigger struggle to try to get a new job. Not many places are hiring, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for him. That means I need to be very financially independent. I mean I am mostly independent but I won't deny that my parents help me here and there and treat me to dinners and things like that. Now the pressure is on and I feel like I may even need to help my parents out. I mean I know they would never want to place that kind of burden on me and wouldn't exhaust all other options before they would....but it'd be nice to inadvertently do little things here and there to help the family financially without drawing too much attention for it. So that means I need to take all the hours I can get since my refund check doesn't even cover all the $ I need for rent and car payments. Oh and to top it off Joel was a tool and responded to my e-mail about rent basically saying he wasn't going to pay it and that legally we couldn't make him. I'm glad I never have to see him again because I've lost alot of respect for him.
This weekend I'm going to Philly with the family for my cousin's graduation party. It's nice to see family, but there are always certain family members I could do without....lol. I plan on bringing my book(s) with me and getting some good reading time in during the car ride and any other breaks in the action. The new season of True Blood starts Sunday and I finally got my box set of that series of books in the mail today so I want to fly through the 2nd book before the season starts...although I'm not quite sure if they're planning each season to be based on one book? I've gotten alot of reading done in the past few weeks and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm pretty sure my dad thinks I'm some kind of vampire freak now because of my attraction to that genre, but I really haven't been disappointed yet, so if it's not broke don't fix it, right?
i've gotten to see alot of my local friends since I've been home which is nice. I've hung out with Margi, all my guy friends, Colleen....it's nice to see all the people that I really don't get to see enough. I've known them all for so long that I feel like I rediscover old parts of me when I get to see them. They've known me during periods of my life when I was different than I am now and it kind of brings me back to those days when I see them. It's not like I have changed drastically and I can't even say I've changed for better or worse, but I have definitely matured and i think it's just natural to pick up different qualities when you come to know different people. It's not that I change drastically depending on the person I am around but different friends bring out different parts of me and some parts of me have been hibernating for a while and enjoyed the little wake up call :)
To change gears again, I've been thinking about my future alot lately. Overall I feel overwhelmingly excited. While becoming a real adult can seem scary I'm so ready to start a new chapter of my life, to be out on my own and find my own way. I still struggle with wether or not pharmacy is the field that I REALLY want to be in, but I think that with time I will come to love and appreciate it more and more...at least I hope I do. I'm ready to build a career and a life of my own. I have no idea where the future will take me, but I'm excited to find out.
I've gone all over the place in this journal entry, probably because it's been so long since I've written, but it has been kind of therapeutic. Someday I'll look back at this time in my life and I'll remember how it felt to be young with endless possibilities ahead of me :) So I'm getting off my computer now and enjoying that feeling! C'est la vie!