Every year, the honors biology students who attend Rockford High School travel on a school bus to a secret location. Some years, the windows on the bus have been blocked with black construction paper so the eager kids dressed in their old sweat pants and shirts will not be able to memorize the path taken by the driver. After journeying on endless dirt roads, the school buses emerge to see a farmhouse with nothing except for a vast wilderness behind it- and of course, the students are not there for the farmhouse. One group on the annual bog walk last May were my closest friends and I. Walking through the woods was nothing new to us, but treading through a viscous bog filled with logs and animals that could be lurking right in front of our next step, was a completely different story. One moment, I was stepping on the comfort of dry land, and the next, I was wading waist deep in the unknown cold, black water. Towards the end of the trip, my class and I approached a field surrounding a puddle of murky water. “Jump in,” my teacher told us. Immediately, a group of students took the plunge and were submerged into the swamp. I kept asking myself, “how deep is it? Would I touch the bottom?”. I had to push all of those thoughts out of my head. I took the hands of my friends, and together, we leaped into uncharted territory. …show more content…
As a junior in High School, working in a pharmacy would be a new experience for me, but I have never let the fear of the unknown prevent me from pursuing what I am passionate about. I would love to become a pharmacist one day because I want a career that will enable me to help others. Having the knowledge that I will be making the necessary medications to help people feel better will give me a tremendous amount of satisfaction in my
For all of my life, I knew that I wanted to help people. I didn’t know how or when I was going to, but I knew that I needed to do something that helped others. We see people helping each other every day, but I knew that I was not like other kids who wanted to be a fireman or a police officer. At the same time, helping people to me wasn’t going to be me becoming a surgeon and saving lives; I do not have a strong enough stomach. For a very long time, helping people meant that I was going to teach high school classes in the sciences. I continued looking around for other career paths and began diving more into the medical field and it fascinated me. Eventually, I came across pharmacy, a career where I can exhibit my need of helping others and my interest in science.
The road to choosing pharmacy was a winding path. I knew from a young age that I loved science and that the medical field would someday become my home. As I progressed through high school I explored other careers, like physician’s assistants and medical school but I never felt like I had found my niche. I started working for Publix and soon found myself working in the pharmacy as a technician to gain more knowledge about medicine. Before I knew It, I was hooked. I knew I had found my dream field of work. The combinations of Sciences, patients, and the flexibility of the changing world of pharmacy is enticing. I have a wide interest in the scope of pharmacy and find comfort in knowing I can have many different careers within the field. While competing at the Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) student leadership conference I met a faculty member from a nearby University who inspired me with stories of various careers all within my reach. The following year I had the pleasure of presenting with her at the 2017 HOSA conference and was able to share my experiences as a Pre-Pharmacy student, as well as knowledge on the career path to high schoolers. This inspired me further and I found that I enjoy teaching and sharing my passion for pharmacy. As I come to my third year as a Pharmacy Technician my passion for pharmacy has only increased. Not a day goes by that I am not inspired by my pharmacist. My work in pharmacy has presented me with many skills from pharmaceutical
Choosing the field of Pharmacy as your career requires a rigorous education and licensure process before being certified and being able to work as a Pharmacist. There are many responsibilities once they are in as well.
I have chosen Pharmacy because that is the career I am currently pursing. I have taken a step ahead by studying for the Pharmacy Technicians License Exam this summer in order to gain practical knowledge and experience in the field, similar to why I hope to be a part of the Willow Clinic. As a Pharmaceutical Chemistry major, and I am pursing pharmacy because I hope to become an expertise in medicine and in chemistry so that I can effectively communicate factors that must be considered
Before I decided to follow the career path to becoming a Pharmacist, I wanted to become a Doctor, Police Officer, and even a Musician. The decision to become a Pharmacist was not made overnight; it was a process that started from the days of my youth with many factors playing a part. When I was ten years old, I had a ringworm infection on my left wrist and an asthma condition that prevented me from doing certain things as a child. My mom was a nurse working long shifts and my dad was a truck driver, so my siblings and I were used to having babysitters. I became accustomed to the fact that I had to start taking responsibility since my parents weren’t always around and the babysitters we had weren’t always the best.
I have always wanted to go to pharmacy school ever since I was little. My family has been very close to one another, to a point where if one person is hurt we are all hurt. I was inspired to learn about medication and how it work in the body by my grandfather. He was a great man and filled with so much wisdom in till he fell very ill. We went to doctors after doctors, and he was told to take so many medication and they were the expensive ones. However, once he was reached his time and he died, a doctor that he went and saw called and said he found the problem and recommended a medication, but we told him it was too late. From that day I wanted to know and learn about how medication work, I did not want to lose anyone so close to again. As I
I care about how people are doing, and I want them to be happy and healthy. Pharmacist do this every single day. Every day, they help make someone life better, and that is really important to me also have the skill-set needed to become a pharmacist. Pharmacist need to be very meticulous in very detail, and I do that. I will be the first in my family to go to medical school, and I am very excited about that. I want to attend Kearney because when I toured the school, I loved the campus and class size. After I graduate from medical school, I want to live in a small town. My parent’s own businesses in rural towns through Nebraska, so I spent many hours in those towns. I grew to love the lose-knit aspect those towns have, and I hope to own my own pharmacy in one of those towns. I am very ambitious, so I know that nothing will stop me from reaching my
It seems like a great field to get into; its job outlook, annual salary, and different kinds of flexibility are ideal for me, especially because I love to change things up. I could genuinely see myself loving my job as a pharmacologist—I’ll be able to help people, perform experiments, use the analytical part of my brain, and, most importantly, have fun, all at the same time, and that’s what I want to get from my
I feel that Pharmacy is a challenging yet rewarding career that makes a positive impact on the lives of individuals. My A-levels have provided me with a range of useful skills that I will be able to apply within a Pharmacy degree.
Becoming a pharmacist became more of a goal as I looked for a profession that would best suit me, and I began my college work already determined to pursue this career path. The desire was furthered while working the past two years with Landy Gamble at Landy's Pharmacy. As a pharmacy technician, I enjoy interacting with customers of all ages to help them understand their prescriptions, medication needs, and health goals. I have enjoyed and learned from watching Landy educate customers about available pharmaceuticals, and compounding options for both themselves, their pets, and even nutritional supplement
Life after high school offers many options for all student bodies at schools across the nation. Everyone has to make their own path to decide what they will do with their future. The pathway which I will be pursuing is to attend a six to eight year program for pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. I made my decision at a young age to follow in my oldest sister’s footsteps. Jordan is an alumni of Ohio Northern University and currently serves as the pharmacists in charge at CVS in Gallipolis, Ohio. As I see myself as a natural leader I will be able to benefit pharmacy stores with my leadership skills. Having an impact on people’s life is also very important to me, and one way to do that is give others the medicine they need to help them get better.
Even though I lost a year when I transferred, I did not let interfere with my studies and learned that without failure, there will be no success. The attributes of leadership, service, and scholarship are aspects I wish to embrace in my future pharmacy career. From the clinical and research opportunities the field has to offer. The School of Pharmacy will teach me how to promote a more just humane society, by trying to eliminate health issues, that people today are facing. I want to work hands on with society and apply my knowledge of chemistry and mathematics to real life. I wish to make society aware of the severity of health issues and the harms of taking medication that is not prescribed. There is flexibility in the pharmacy career and I will still be able to provide for my family and have stability. Pharmacists are well respected and are a vital part of the community; which will bring many opportunities to continue my success. Life itself can be a roadblock at times when trying to accomplish ones dreams. My family and friends are my number one motivation; they support me and are always there in my time of
The career that I am interested in pursuing is a Pharmacists. The number one reason I have decided to become a pharmacist is because I want to help and assist others. The satisfaction of me helping a patient get better quickly is the motivation that drives me. The second reason is the act of working with other health care professionals. Pharmacist have to communicate with other professionals as a team to avoid errors. Communication and connection is a major key in today’s society, in which I like with a passion. The big career dream began when my older cousin sister became the first in the family to graduate from college with a college degree. Her getting a well-paying job and taking care of my aunt and uncle led me to work hard and achieve pharmacy just like her. HCC will help me pursue my goals by helping me get high grades and achieve a high GPA. By me getting an Associates in Science I would then transfer to a big university like University of Houston to continue for higher education.
One afternoon, six other staff members and I between the ages of 14 and 16 decided that we wanted to explore the creek on the edge of camp. Sometimes we took the campers down there to search for fossils, but we weren’t allowed to travel past a certain point. Today, we wanted to venture beyond and examine how far the creek went. First, we needed to hike through some fields and then wade through a bit of stinging nettle, but eventually, we reached the water. We were all expecting to become fully drenched, so we brought bathing suits and water shoes. It started off shallow, but gradually grew deeper and deeper, with some areas of the creek as high as waist deep. After
Becoming a pharmacist is a very time consuming process. Students must complete all of the pre-pharmacy requirements, take licensure exams, and finally get into and graduate from an accredited pharmacy school with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. While that might not sound like a lot, it takes eight years of hard work. A lot of undergraduates journey into the field with visions of dollar signs floating in their heads. Then they start taking their pre-pharmacy courses and decide that maybe becoming a pharmacist is not their calling. Many people have told me that hard work and determination going into a precise goal will get you anywhere you want to go in this world. My grandfather has told me countless times “Don’t blame someone else for you