Who knew I'd be so happy while working just shy of 60 hours a week? Rotations are funny things, your experience is really dependent on your preceptor and the other people working there. I can't stand when people complain about work when they're at their job. I understand life and work can be stressful, but bitching and moaning isn't going to do anything to make it any less so. Luckily, my first site was full of friendly, helpful people. My preceptors were more than willing to answer any question I had and gave me enough varied assignments to keep my time there interesting. The store was busy a good amount of the time and I found myself running around as if I were working at my own store, not because they were telling me to do so, but because I wanted to help them out.
Anyway, while I could go on about how great the store was, a few interesting things did happen. I was told I looked like my preceptor three times. I seriously can't escape this, I sometimes wonder just how common my face looks. Towards the end of the rotation I was helping out at drop off and a burly old guy approaches with a couple of scripts. He says "hey good lookin', mind filling these for me?" I turn expecting one of the female techs to be behind me, but alas no one was near me. I got a good chuckle out of that.
I also found out just how small pharmacy is. My second week there, a floater pharmacist came in and it turns out I had worked with him at my store when I began working there last year. Further cementing the small size of pharmacy in my mind, a trainee pharmacist that was working at my rotation site is good friends with 2 of the pharmacist at my home store.
While I'm still not 100% sold on community pharmacy in my mind, I am happy that I had the opportunity to work with a great group of people outside of my store. With that said, I'm really looking forward to LIJ in February.
On a completely unrelated note, I do hope to update with a "new" (started it at the end of my summer break and never got around to finishing) attempt at writing...assuming LIJ doesn't completely eat all my spare time.
