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Rated: 13+ · Book · Opinion · #2101544
Mutterings, musings and general brain flatulence.
#1009762 added May 6, 2021 at 11:57am
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Pharmacy 101
PROMPT: Write about a community service or volunteer experience you’ve had in your life that made an impact on you.


In Year 10 (approx 15yrs old), UK kids often do a work-experience placement for a couple of weeks. I wanted to something in the medicine line, but didn't really know what. Ended up working in a pharmacy for my two weeks, and at the end of it I was offered a Saturday job to help cover one of the dispensers who was about to go on maternity leave.

I ended up working not just Saturdays, but school holidays, and - once I was in 6th Form and had a weird timetable on a Friday - some lunchtimes too. My only two subjects on the Friday were biology (first period) and chemistry (last period); home was a three mile walk away (and not on a bus route) and all my friends had other lessons. So what's a girl to do? And it felt great to get paid *Wink*

Incidentally, my chemistry teacher took to collecting his prescription on Friday lunchtimes to "check you're gonna be there for my lesson later"....


That was 21 years ago. I'm now a pharmacist, rolling my eyes at teenage life choices *Rolling*

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