More rambling from your resident pharmacist
What’s with the blog-mania in the last few days? Glad you asked.
I am applying for a few jobs now that I am about to graduate in 3 months. Holy hell, I have 3 months to finish school, find a job, and pass the boards!?!?!? Yet I digress, I am applying for a few job positions. My top pick right now is with the FDA. I think it would be really cool to be involved with the regulation of the food and drugs here in the states. This way when outbreaks of lead infested food, anti-freeze flavored dog food, and hydrazine foreboding bombs (wait, I guess the FDA wasn’t involved in this one) are making their way into the US market, you can all call me and give me a great razz about the wonderful work of the federal government. In all honesty though, I think that the work at the FDA seems very rewarding to pharmacists and I am excited about the prospect of working there. What does this have to do with my increased blog presence? Well, it does.
The entity that I am attempting to get in the FDA with and the FDA themselves require 12 binders of paperwork to be filled out and signed, physicals that are so invasive they seem illegal to me, my first born son (I am hoping to trade a daughter in first, joking), my left femoral artery for research purposes, and ever so much more. You get the point. They want A LOT of things completed in order for them to even review me as a potential candidate. Every night for too many nights, I have been attempting to fill out all of these applications. I finally muddled my way to the vacancy specific core questions. Oh boy, does the fun stop here? I sure hope so. These questions are horrendous. Absolutely and completely eye-stabbing with a dull pencil, horrible. For starters, they require you to essentially brag about your capabilities and why you would make a great employee. I am not a lawyer and such, bragging does not come easy. Sorry lawyer friends. I’ve spent the past few weeks working on questions such as, ” Elaborate on which best describes your skill in applying qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques to the identification, consideration, collection, analysis, and summarization of scientific and technical information.”
Feel my pain yet?
How this ties in my extra blogging is simple. These questions bore me because I do not find them easy to answer. I divert my attention to other matters such as the World-wide web. I am sorry if I am boring you with many aimless ramblings lately, but then again, no one is forcing you to log on and read. Happy reading and if any of my lawyer friends aren’t too mad at me, I’ll pay you to come over and brag up my vacancy specific core questions.
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