TWO interview requests in one day!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was telling my Realtor about cancelling that interview on Monday, and she said that she has some friends who live in that city (it's a Chicago suburb). If I worked there, I would probably be facing a long commute, because even on a pharmacist's salary, I couldn't afford to live there. 😱
In the meantime, I've scheduled yet another one! Things are looking up. 🙂
p.s. The most supportive person in regards to cancelling that interview was a Facebook friend (we were in the GIRL Scouts) who works in HR.
In the meantime, I've scheduled yet another one! Things are looking up. 🙂
p.s. The most supportive person in regards to cancelling that interview was a Facebook friend (we were in the GIRL Scouts) who works in HR.
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You turned down an interview in the Chicago area? I'm sure the hundreds (maybe thousands) of unemployed pharmacists in the area send their appreciation.
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You're weird to cancel on an interview based on a non-founded hunch that something is wrong. Maybe you ate something bad for breakfast?
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Thousands (or even hundreds) of unemployed pharmacists in Chicago? Call me skeptical. Glad I don't live in Chicago though.
What? You can live in Chicago/suburbs on a Pharmacist's salary, heck, you can live in Chicago/suburbs on a resident's salary.
Where do you live?
No, it's true. Every resident of Chicago makes > 100K per year or they couldn't live there.
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I finally had the F2F interview yesterday. One of the interviewers said that this place, which currently has 71 FTEs and will be hiring 1 or 2 more (they haven't finalized it yet) always, until about 2 years ago, had 3 or more RPh openings at any given time, and if they got an application, that person would definitely be interviewed and probably hired unless it was clear that they were a very poor fit for the job, or obviously impaired in some way. Now, they post an opening and they get a dozen or more applications. ETA: He agreed with me that online applications are the reason for this.
He and another pharmacist in the room had both been there over 20 years, and both had left retail pharmacy because they no longer felt like pharmacists, but instead felt like computer operators and insurance company drones. And that was in the mid 1980s!
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