New grads - How difficult was it to find a position?

[youRCC]

For most people, probably a deal breaker just seeing you took 6 months off.

The real issue here though is that during those 6 months all the (desirable) jobs were taken by grads that wanted to go to work immediately.... leaving you currently jobless.

PharmDBro --> PharmDPro

If you are still not employed, I would spin it as looking for FT work even if you weren't looking for 6 mo

YOU. I like you.

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[lord999]

I didn’t realize you could fail at being a porn star. Surely there is a type for everyone? Or perhaps your acting wasn’t up to par?

I kid, it’s actually pretty cool story. I would tell it at parties.

From someone who actually ran the state health clinic for them both, studs mostly get paid more than girls. The "explained" difference had to do with the physical endurance of the performance and getting guys who were unmemorable enough to replace as a self-insert which make them harder to recruit than girls (and unlike girls, were much less likely to have addiction issues that lower their asking rates). I used to actually believe that if you legalized prostitution and made porn more widespread, the problems attendant with them being restricted and/or illegal would go down. Now, I know better as with better treatment and safety protocols in NV and CA, many studios have decamped to OR and WA which have much less government supervision of the trades.

I actually make it a specific point that if any applicant worked in adult entertainment, that they get special consideration. I was classmates with two studs and four girls, and my usual finding is that they have no motivational issues with work, because they did work in something far worse. (If you work in Phoenix, let's just say that both of the nuclear pharmacies in the city have former porn stars working for them, and they are pretty obvious who they are if you met them.)

 

[MatCauthon]

From someone who actually ran the state health clinic for them both, studs mostly get paid more than girls. The "explained" difference had to do with the physical endurance of the performance and getting guys who were unmemorable enough to replace as a self-insert which make them harder to recruit than girls (and unlike girls, were much less likely to have addiction issues that lower their asking rates). I used to actually believe that if you legalized prostitution and made porn more widespread, the problems attendant with them being restricted and/or illegal would go down. Now, I know better as with better treatment and safety protocols in NV and CA, many studios have decamped to OR and WA which have much less government supervision of the trades.

I actually make it a specific point that if any applicant worked in adult entertainment, that they get special consideration. I was classmates with two studs and four girls, and my usual finding is that they have no motivational issues with work, because they did work in something far worse. (If you work in Phoenix, let's just say that both of the nuclear pharmacies in the city have former porn stars working for them, and they are pretty obvious who they are if you met them.)

6 pornstars in your pharmacy class? Something doesn't sound quite believable about that

 

[Deja]

I feel like lord999 has a story for everything and has experienced everything under the sun

 

[lord999]

6 pornstars in your pharmacy class? Something doesn't sound quite believable about that

Yeah, I didn't believe it myself that we had even one until it came up in admissions and state board applications. To give you an idea of how screwed up the demographics of my class were, I was one of three people under 22 at P1 and this was in the era where it was a two-year entrance and it was around 15% who had 120 credits or more. The class median was in their 30s and most came from other careers, had families, and many of them had pasts. Since my school was not fully accredited when we came on, they got candidates that were not exactly sterling academic backgrounds. In the case of three of them, they actually worked together and applied together. The others were Californians who were rejected by the academic establishment. The class fell into three different groups, and what was funny about it was that the least professionally successful group from that year was the academically pedestrian. All the people who made it were people who had secondary careers (even adult entertainment ones) who had real reasons to succeed and were old enough to know that money was the only thing that was real to them.

It depresses me that once accredited, my school started getting all the boring, regular admits instead of taking risks like they did with my class and the ones before me. By and large, having a bunch of nontraditionals and people with serious pasts who are motivated make for harder workers and a more interesting mix than a bunch of academically qualified but boring like me. But, weirdly enough, I got my taste for informatics from the experiences of the disenfranchised tech workers in my class getting as second career, and contacts for consulting work that I do in present day for those industries due to database optimization issues (who do you think sinks all that money into no-SQL image databases, it certainly is not Amazon).

There are certain schools that have reputations for admitting non-trads, Nova and Creighton are the ones that comes up every so often as very forgiving institutions for having a past and becoming respectable in training.

I feel like lord999 has a story for everything and has experienced everything under the sun

I do have stories for many things. I've always found other people's experiences entertaining in a nihilistic and ultimately destructive existence. In a different world, I would have become a historian. Unfortunately, I'm paid to be a bureaucrat and right now a detective, so I hear all the sad ones...I also have never been particular about where I work, what I work on, and the circumstances surrounding it, so I have seen and will get to see things that most don't. Someday, I hope to get the USAID job, but that's a reach too far considering my health and anxiety issues with violent death (I'd like to live to old age and not die like the last two heads there). The interest is living and learning vicariously through others, I'm too much a coward to do any of the really interesting things myself (except possibly conspiracy, but that's a story for another time).

 

[APN-59 rph]

Yeah, I didn't believe it myself that we had even one until it came up in admissions and state board applications. To give you an idea of how screwed up the demographics of my class were, I was one of three people under 22 at P1 and this was in the era where it was a two-year entrance and it was around 15% who had 120 credits or more. The class median was in their 30s and most came from other careers, had families, and many of them had pasts. Since my school was not fully accredited when we came on, they got candidates that were not exactly sterling academic backgrounds. In the case of three of them, they actually worked together and applied together. The others were Californians who were rejected by the academic establishment. The class fell into three different groups, and what was funny about it was that the least professionally successful group from that year was the academically pedestrian. All the people who made it were people who had secondary careers (even adult entertainment ones) who had real reasons to succeed and were old enough to know that money was the only thing that was real to them.

It depresses me that once accredited, my school started getting all the boring, regular admits instead of taking risks like they did with my class and the ones before me. By and large, having a bunch of nontraditionals and people with serious pasts who are motivated make for harder workers and a more interesting mix than a bunch of academically qualified but boring like me. But, weirdly enough, I got my taste for informatics from the experiences of the disenfranchised tech workers in my class getting as second career, and contacts for consulting work that I do in present day for those industries due to database optimization issues (who do you think sinks all that money into no-SQL image databases, it certainly is not Amazon).

There are certain schools that have reputations for admitting non-trads, Nova and Creighton are the ones that comes up every so often as very forgiving institutions for having a past and becoming respectable in training.



I do have stories for many things. I've always found other people's experiences entertaining in a nihilistic and ultimately destructive existence. In a different world, I would have become a historian. Unfortunately, I'm paid to be a bureaucrat and right now a detective, so I hear all the sad ones...I also have never been particular about where I work, what I work on, and the circumstances surrounding it, so I have seen and will get to see things that most don't. Someday, I hope to get the USAID job, but that's a reach too far considering my health and anxiety issues with violent death (I'd like to live to old age and not die like the last two heads there). The interest is living and learning vicariously through others, I'm too much a coward to do any of the really interesting things myself (except possibly conspiracy, but that's a story for another time).

The impression is that you are (were) an Rph..with a lot of stories..involving anxiety..violent death..questionable health..and works as a chicken hearted bureaucratic detective....with a USAID target job.....If you advance a credit card #...we can talk...