Journal 31

My job shadowing experience was not that great. I job shadowed a pharmacist at Complete Care Pharmacy, and he was pretty busy. It was the beginning of the month so everybody was getting social security checks and spending them on their medication. The pharmacist was on the phone seventy-five percent of the time, so I did not really learn anything. I already know a lot about pharmacy, so he would not have been able to teach me a lot. But he basically just stood in one spot the whole time. The only new thing I saw was a machine that contained half of the medicine in the pharmacy, and it could dispense whatever was needed. Most of the information was on a computer program, so the guy was on the computer also. I still want to be a pharmacist. I am really interested in it, and I think it is the right career for me. I think the person I shadowed enjoys his job, so I think I will too. I have always been interested in chemistry and anatomy, which makes up a lot of the curriculum; I obviously want to help people too; and it pays off financially in the end. I used to want to be a dentist, but I definitely do not want to work with teeth all day. I would much rather work with weird people and medicine than cavities and tooth decay. I do not mind having to talk to all of the different people because in the end they are getting the medicine that they need. I will probably have to continually go to school even after I graduate from pharmacy school, and I do not mind that. I am not sure what branch of pharmacy I will end up pursuing, but I think I will either be a typical pharmacist, a hospital pharmacist, or a nuclear pharmacist. It would have been better if I could have shadowed a different type of pharmacist to see why he or she went into that specific field.

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