Working full time for these past two weeks has been a refreshing break from study. While I complain that pharmacy can have a tendency to become rather monotonous, it is the patients that make it entirely worthwhile. It's so nice being able to have a genuine interaction with them, as opposed to highly structured OSCEs or awkward encounters in HIC where we try and understand how their illness affects their life and blahblahblah *coughfakeempathy*. It's a nice change being able to joke with them and to see how much they appreciate it when you go the extra mile. While work life has its own downsides such as needing to wake up every morning at 7am to fit in exercise and getting back home at 6:30pm, and then having only enough time to shower and cook dinner before it is time to sleep, I can also see the benefits. Well, mainly the money. And the feeling of knowing that I don't need to study.
Maybe I wasn't ready for work life two years ago or maybe I just needed a break because I felt a bit burnt out from semester one. Whatever it is, I've really appreciated working again. And now I almost don't want to give up my APC for next year. Except $1000 to keep practicing makes being a pharmacist a rather expensive hobby.
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