Running out of Options. Please Help

[Hopeless13]

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I am feeling completely and utterly hopeless about my career situation and my life in general. I have 7 years of retail experience with extremely positive work performance, including 2 years as pharmacy manager. I have been out of work since Jun 2012 because I blew a .09 and had to go to treatment, (please spare the comments or lectures about this situation, I made a mistake, learned from it, and have paid heavily). I never stole drugs or abused RX meds. 3 months ago, I went to the Board of Pharmacy and got my license reinstated with a PRIVATE consent order. Since this was my first time they were pretty easy on me. Now I am faced with the MONUMENTAL challenge of trying to find work again after being unemployed for 11 months. The 2 people who have called me back for application follow-up just shut down when I mentioned my consent order. I am so incredibly desperate for work, I would GLADLY accept minimum wage for a pharmacist or technician job. At least I would be back at work doing what I have done for most of my adult life, and I believe that I would eventually be able to negotiate a pay raise.

I am at a complete loss with nowhere to go. I am involved in an aftercare group and they are trying to help me, but the jobs are just not there. Its hard enough for someone without a "history". I fully believe that my motivation and desire for work is far greater than any one else's. I would GLADLY take the S**TTIEST store in the WORST location for MINIMUM WAGE, and I'd be extremely grateful for the opportunity. If you think this is BS you don't know me. I would GLADLY work rural/urban, high volume, no techs, people screaming at me, lazy partner you name it. I am hungry. My savings are completely gone, living off of credit cards, etc. Cant find other work - who would hire a former pharmacy manager applying for McDonald's job. They think I am insane. I have used this time off to obtain CDE, AE-C, and CGP, as well as volunteering, but nothing is working. Sorry for the rant but I have nowhere to turn, every day I grow more hopeless and I do not know how much longer I can keep going on like this.

 

[grumps]

Forget about a pharmacy gig, that train has left the station for everybody. What I did was alter my resume to fit the non-pharmacy job available. Many of the skills of a retail pharmacy are the same for other jobs. For instance, instead of titling resume EXPERIENCED PHARMACY MANAGER, try EXPERIENCED WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR, ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE CLERK, INVENTORY SPECIALIST, etc. Don't mention salary history if asked just lie.

And believe me once you are onboard they will appreciate you and realize they have a winner. They will bend over backwards to keep you with raises and perqs. We pharmacists in retail are supermen in the civilian world after being hardened by the ridiculous working conditions imposed by these corporate goons. We stay calm under stress and work nonstop w/o breaks. This just freaks them out.

 

[awval999]

I am feeling completely and utterly hopeless about my career situation and my life in general. I have 7 years of retail experience with extremely positive work performance, including 2 years as pharmacy manager. I have been out of work since Jun 2012 because I blew a .09 and had to go to treatment, (please spare the comments or lectures about this situation, I made a mistake, learned from it, and have paid heavily). I never stole drugs or abused RX meds. 3 months ago, I went to the Board of Pharmacy and got my license reinstated with a PRIVATE consent order. Since this was my first time they were pretty easy on me. Now I am faced with the MONUMENTAL challenge of trying to find work again after being unemployed for 11 months. The 2 people who have called me back for application follow-up just shut down when I mentioned my consent order. I am so incredibly desperate for work, I would GLADLY accept minimum wage for a pharmacist or technician job. At least I would be back at work doing what I have done for most of my adult life, and I believe that I would eventually be able to negotiate a pay raise.

I am at a complete loss with nowhere to go. I am involved in an aftercare group and they are trying to help me, but the jobs are just not there. Its hard enough for someone without a "history". I fully believe that my motivation and desire for work is far greater than any one else's. I would GLADLY take the S**TTIEST store in the WORST location for MINIMUM WAGE, and I'd be extremely grateful for the opportunity. If you think this is BS you don't know me. I would GLADLY work rural/urban, high volume, no techs, people screaming at me, lazy partner you name it. I am hungry. My savings are completely gone, living off of credit cards, etc. Cant find other work - who would hire a former pharmacy manager applying for McDonald's job. They think I am insane. I have used this time off to obtain CDE, AE-C, and CGP, as well as volunteering, but nothing is working. Sorry for the rant but I have nowhere to turn, every day I grow more hopeless and I do not know how much longer I can keep going on like this.

Did you blow a 0.09 in a car driving or at while at work?

Stop with all the minimum wage bull****. It makes you look weak to be honest. Why would anyone hire you if you say that? I'm a pharmacist but I will work for minimum wage? It throws up all sorts of flags.

I would look at hard to fill locations in TX, OK, NV, etc. Rural, rural, rural. I would also try to work in that you are "born-again" and hope you can be given a 2nd chance. You may be able to get a new bible belt Christian that will take a chance on you.

 

[inim]

Did you blow a 0.09 in a car driving or at while at work?

Stop with all the minimum wage bull****. It makes you look weak to be honest. Why would anyone hire you if you say that? I'm a pharmacist but I will work for minimum wage? It throws up all sorts of flags.

I agree with this. Stop feeling sorry for yourself! Hope things will work out for you

 

[rxlea]

Some border towns are probably looking for someone

 

[Hopeless13]

Did you blow a 0.09 in a car driving or at while at work?

Stop with all the minimum wage bull****. It makes you look weak to be honest. Why would anyone hire you if you say that? I'm a pharmacist but I will work for minimum wage? It throws up all sorts of flags.

I would look at hard to fill locations in TX, OK, NV, etc. Rural, rural, rural. I would also try to work in that you are "born-again" and hope you can be given a 2nd chance. You may be able to get a new bible belt Christian that will take a chance on you.

It's a long story, but it happened on the way to work after a hard night drinking. What a cluster-**** that was. Still blew 0.09 after sleeping for 7 hours. Ill be the first to admit that I had a drinking problem, but I have quit and I got help.

I fully agree how this attitude makes me seem weak but I am trying to emphasize how motivated and frankly desperate I am to get back to work. I haven't tried the "born-again" thing, that's a good idea. My problem is simply getting replies from applications. When 100 other people are applying for 1 job, my resume surely throws up a huge red flag, and the 2 callbacks I have gotten, it's the very first question they ask. I havent had the chance to "sell" myself first before talking about the consent order.

I am beginning to think, as the first reply said, that the pharmacy gig is done for me. I'm 31, unemployed, hugely in debt with CCs and still 50K loans, family doesnt have much means to help me out. I definitely do not have a "reboot" option at this point in my career to try and do something else. I dont have the ability or the mental endurance. My saving grace is that I am single and not tied down anywhere, but at the same time the prospects seem extremely dim. The only thing of worth that I have right now is my life insurance policy to be honest.

 

[awval999]

It's a long story, but it happened on the way to work after a hard night drinking. What a cluster-**** that was. Still blew 0.09 after sleeping for 7 hours. Ill be the first to admit that I had a drinking problem, but I have quit and I got help.

I fully agree how this attitude makes me seem weak but I am trying to emphasize how motivated and frankly desperate I am to get back to work. I haven't tried the "born-again" thing, that's a good idea. My problem is simply getting replies from applications. When 100 other people are applying for 1 job, my resume surely throws up a huge red flag, and the 2 callbacks I have gotten, it's the very first question they ask. I havent had the chance to "sell" myself first before talking about the consent order.

I am beginning to think, as the first reply said, that the pharmacy gig is done for me. I'm 31, unemployed, hugely in debt with CCs and still 50K loans, family doesnt have much means to help me out. I definitely do not have a "reboot" option at this point in my career to try and do something else. I dont have the ability or the mental endurance. My saving grace is that I am single and not tied down anywhere, but at the same time the prospects seem extremely dim. The only thing of worth that I have right now is my life insurance policy to be honest.

1. Stop listening to the forum gold bug--- grumps.
2. Get a state license for TX
3. Apply for a rural, rural, town. Read the bible. Sell the "born-again" route. That you need a chance for redemption. Praise Jesus.

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Could take a look at these hard to staff jobs:

https://www.3rnet.org/search-opportunities

 

[xiphoid2010]

Some border towns are probably looking for someone

That's about right actually. The turn overs in some of the hospitals i heard is up to 30%

 

[rxlea]

That's about right actually. The turn overs in some of the hospitals i heard is up to 30%

Yup!