Job interview question

I'm on Facebook with 3 people from that job, so I'll also keep you folks posted on how THAT company's doing. It's a saga that gets curiouser and curiouser all the time.

Update on this job: Yes, I know I should be grateful to have a job, but honestly, I don't like it. I work with a great crew of people, but this job just takes so much out of me, I'm starting to have health problems that are quite likely anxiety related. I had a massive dizzy spell at work a few weeks ago that landed me in the ER (fortunately, all they had to do was take me upstairs) and honestly, I dread going to work every day, mainly because I'm afraid that's going to happen to me again.

There's really nowhere else where I can say this right now. I just hate the idea of quitting a job after 6 months, when it took me so long to find this one, but I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it. The pharmacy field is oversaturated and my bachelor's degree is pretty much worthless nowadays; now, they want people with the 6-year Pharm.D. degree and now residencies too. And as I found out during my unemployed period, having a pharmacy degree pretty much prevented me from getting a job doing anything else.

I don't know what to do. And I don't like living where I am either.

You don't have to tell potential employers you have that degree unless it's needed for the job you're applying for

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I'd start with trying to figure out what was making me unhappy... the job or where I was living. The job may not be the problem but you may be placing you "unhappiness" with the living the arrangements onto the job (i.e. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for this job). Of course it may be the reverse and the job is what is the issue. In which case the question is why do you not like the job? Is the work not what was expected? is it the hours? Environment? Too much work to do in too little time?

Once you identify those things then you can come up with a plan for the future. If it's the job, what else can you apply your skills to that might not have those issues (is it different working for a chain pharmacy vs. a hospital?) If it is where you are living is it the town (too big, too small, etc).

In the interim, the job is a means to an end. It pays the bills while you plan your next step and put that plan into motion.

We all make choices.. sometimes we have to make what turns out to be the wrong choice to know what the right answer is. What I'm trying to say is, don't beat yourself up over this, it may be what pushes you in in the right direction for you and in the end will have been worth the suffering.

Personally, I had "checked" out of the high pressure career oriented job. I'd had enough and needed to "re-focus" my priorities. I moved cross country to get a different way of life. The first few years, I truly wondered if I did the right thing... now however, it was all worth it. and yes, I was in a job for about 5 months, realized it wasn't for me and gound another one. No shame in that. Finding the right fit can be challenge, but you have to know what the right fit is to recognize it.

Hang in there and good luck.

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Discretion is the better part of Valor.

You are working part time, though a temp agency.

Your new boss could dump you Monday morning. You owe nothing to no one.

Everyone should always keep their options opened.

PS.

A sign does not get much bigger than this.

That was the temp job I had this summer. I left there in July when I was offered this job, and this place pays me on time and has excellent benefits, which actually started on day 1 which is quite unusual.

Honestly, the job is really boring most of the time, and I totally feel like an outsider because the others have been there for many years. I was told from the outset that I wouldn't feel really competent for at least a year, and I've been there 6 months so I guess I still have a ways to go. For now, I think I'll stick around; they were very shorthanded all summer (couldn't find someone who was a good fit) and I just don't want to leave them in the lurch like that.

Apply at all the drug companies. Pharms are valued!

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I was going to give my notice today (and probably quit today too - it's gotten that bad ) but my manager wasn't there. I did go home sick, and will talk to him tomorrow. Wish me luck.

I do plan to move back to a city where I used to live, and still have connections, and will worry about what I'm going to do when I get there.

Hoo boy, I am not looking forward to tomorrow, but I am too at the same time.

That ones easy... blame Bush.

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