career: February 2008 Archives

Marine Pharmacist

By Keith Chung, PharmD on February 12, 2008 5:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

While attending UC Irvine, I was a member of Marine Corps Reserve, a weekend warrior. I worked at UC Irvine library as a security and also worked briefly (4-6 months) at TGI Fridays, and Robinsons. Upon graduation from UC Irvine, I got a job as a QC Chemistry Laboratory Technician. However, three months into the job, Uncle Sam called. "Desert Storm". Desert Storm was a life learning experience for me. My MOS, military occupation speciality was Artillery. I wanted to speak to my recruter... Anyways, due to my natural charmisma, I attended many different school and training. The last title I held was safety NCO. It was a perfect job, I just have to make sure we are safe to fire. I was one of the few college students in my company. After 7 months of duty, I returned home and I returned to work 1 week after coming back. I moved through the ranks swiftly and I received few promotions, but I was not completely satisfied I realized that for me to earn enough money to lead a comfortable life I had to become at least a vice president of company. I just didn't have patience and I wanted a concrete guarantee of earning potential. I knew that eventually I have to return school to further myself in life. But I wanted a degree with an entrepreneurship possibilities. 4 years at USC was probably the fastest 4 years period that I could remember. I thought that pharmacist just counted some pills and school would be a walk in the park. I was proven wrong because I had to repeat Biochemistry class in summer session. I didn't see any summer session in school brochure. It was a remedial class. I still graduated in 4 years and my first job offer or contract was for $120,000 a year. Pharmacist career has been glowing in media and to public along with pharmacist salary. Becoming a pharmacist was my best life choice I have managed to achieve. I have met 2 other pharmacist who are former US Marine. Marine Pharmacist would be title that we should name because once a marine always a marine and can't change my career now. How many pharmacist(s) do you know who is a US Marine or was a US Marine?

« career: December 2007 | Main Index | Archives | career: March 2008 »

career: February 2008 Archives

Marine Pharmacist

Links

Search

About this Archive

Categories

career: February 2008: Monthly Archives