Target update
What’s up, party people?
Well… just got off the phone with the Target regional manager (the one that’s over 60 stores in the Tennessee and Georgia areas, he works at the main target offices in downtown ATL)… asked him about some more specific information about the next year or so… the plan was for me to “float” in the Nashville area for about a year and then take over the new pharmacy in the donelson store- and he said that’s still his plan for me, but (as I expected) the new store would probably be pushed back to the END of 2009, and he said once they start, it’s about an 8-month process before it’s up and running… he said that I’d probably be spending a good bit of my “floating” time filling in at the Mt. Juliet Target as both of the 2 current pharmacists there are leaving (one’s pregnant with her 2nd kid and the other is moving to Alabama for something)… he was kind of vague about stuff… he said the plan was the same, just pushed back about 6 months to a year, and that he didn’t want to lock me into 1 pharmacy right now because he wants to see how I fit in at each one and figure out where I’d fit best… I guess I’m just kinda new at all this and I’m not really sure if that means where I fit in best for Target or where I fit in best for me- hopefully some of both. I’ve got to be honest, I think they’re really going to like me because I know how to go the extra mile and all my ambulatory rotations have given me great confidence in my ability to talk at length about most common chronic ‘ambulatory’ diseases (and their appropriate medical treatment of course)- I feel like I’m going to do well- which is a good feeling- but there’s really no way to achieve that right now so I reckon I’ll just have to wait and see how it works out—I guess there were some sacrifices to make for working at Target as several other places told me I could hand-pick my location or at least gave me a choice of locations to be at (not to mention I thew the whole ‘sign on bonus’ out the window and sacrificed 1 week of vacation time!)- I feel like there’s a lot of “let’s wait and see how you do before we set anything in stone”, whereas at other places they had the hammer and chisel out ready to talk about the future… not whining- I just don’t like uncertainty- I need something to hang my hat on.. and I had honestly hoped to get a little closer to Nashville so that I might be able to go to church somewhere downtown where I could be on my own and get to know some single people my age? I know it sounds crazy, but that’s what I had planned…
5 comments:
Ideally do you want to work at the MJ Target? I mean if you had your choice?
I'd prefer to give myself just a tad bit of distance between where I grew up and where I'll spend the NEXT 26 years 'growing up'- I don't want to get away, really, I just feel a need to establish something new, something that's truely mine- I wouldn't want to be anywhere other than Middle Tennessee, I just feel like I owe it to myself to start my own bubble that isn't completely enclosed within the bubble I spent the first part of my life growing up in-
it's weird to think about going to pick up a prescription and you being the pharmacist i get it from. just... weird.
also, you dont have to be downtown to enjoy downtown. we live by the airport and go to church on the opposite side of nashville (21st & 440) but it's not a big deal. it's like a 10min drive.
It would be hard for me to choose to live on the west-side. I'm just partial to the east...it feels unpretentious and cultured in comparison. We'd love to just drive around Nashville and surroundings with you and show you the stuff we love and the other stuff.
"It won't be long (yeah yeah). It won't be long (yeah yeah yeah). It won't be long (yeah) til you belong to Nashville."
Hello Scott Burka! Looks as though your hard work is paying off. Speaking for the entire baby boom generation, let me say that we're so thankful that there are young whippersnappers out there, such as yourself, who find interesting all the chemistry, biochemistry and 75 other topics you've studied at length. Because we'll be needing lots of prescriptions in the next few years. Your professional skills plus your people skills, all add up to a fine package Scott. Keep up the good work!
I hope too that you'll soon find a place a bit out of MJ. But for selfish reasons, I must confess. See, traditionally there is a room for me at the B__ Bed and Breakfast. And. . ., well, I understand that it's actually your room. No pressure, of course but...where will You stay when I'm passing through town. ;) (just teasing)
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