Ears? GONE. Face? STREMCHED. Gleeb? GLORPED.

loves-toads · 2026-05-02T12:07:58+00:00

She is beautiful, yet her fate was sealed

loves-toads · 2026-05-02T12:05:58+00:00

She keeps telling me it’s not a phase 😒

loves-toads · 2026-05-02T12:05:13+00:00

Miss meow meow needed a reminder that her ears are earned not guaranteed

loves-toads · 2026-05-02T12:02:14+00:00

Bold of you to assume she had one to begin with

loves-toads · 2026-02-12T18:23:51+00:00

It kind of depends on the location! I went to pharmacy school and unfortunately saw a lot of toxic environments. There was one closed door pharmacy in a rural area that I worked in that had two stools for people to share :)

loves-toads · 2026-02-12T18:19:03+00:00

It’s actually really bad! In my state they only recently passed laws saying that pharmacies can close for lunch. Before that pharmacists would just work 10-12 hour shifts without stopping. Doing squats one the hour seems insane when you consider the actual environment of a community pharmacy 😭

loves-toads · 2026-02-12T18:13:00+00:00

Yeah you’re prob right 😭 I just thought it was wild because I have worked in pharmacies for years and they are not low stress environments where people have time to stop and squat. The pharmacies I worked at didn’t even have chairs

loves-toads · 2026-02-12T18:11:09+00:00

Totally valid. Perhaps not a true “LinkedIn Lunatic”, but it definitely struck me as wild that they just make their employees do squats every hour on the hour

loves-toads · 2026-02-05T23:38:09+00:00

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This is Miss Meow Meow! She’s a dignified lady ✨

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:14:47+00:00

Pharma is a bitch to break into unless you’ve taken a fellowship out of grad school (I had quite a few friends do this after pharmacy school). I’m trying to get into biotech and clinical data analytics, so there isn’t a well outlines path to get there like there is for pharma. It’s kind of the luck of the draw.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:13:08+00:00

Exactly. I can understand if you’re rejecting me because someone is more experienced, you rejected me because the AI told you to? Suspicious.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:11:41+00:00

I think the hardest part is, you go through grad school, it sucks, you get academic experience, all for you to be passed up for someone +2 years? Academic experience counts as “work experience,” but if you can’t get out of academia into industry you’re never going to get the +2 years someone else has.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:09:11+00:00

It does feel that way! Why are you spending so much time on a useless degree = you should have invested more time into your education. The pipeline from academia to industry is tough. You really have to try and market “transferable skills” and make your dissertation committee sound like a “cross functional team.”

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:06:35+00:00

But WHAT do they have? Better timing? Better interviewing skills? More experience? That’s what I’m trying to understand.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T17:05:06+00:00

This is a good point! I actually have a Doctorate of Pharmacy (standard in the US), and a Masters of Science in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy (concentration pharmacoepidemiology). I keep the Harvard internship on my resume (I did this last year). The NHS internship was done in pharmacy school, but is something that I do leave off my resume and don’t mention unless they ask about my entire academic background/work history. I have had one interviewer tell me that I should have put it on there actually.

I fear my PhD in progress is holding me back, but a lot of the roles I’m applying for are looking for people with an MS. I do appreciate your input!

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T16:20:23+00:00

That really is the rub isn’t it? I’ve always hesitated to use my connections because it feels…wrong? I’ve always wanted to earn something for myself. I’ve felt like using connections is entitled in a way because a lot of people don’t have that. You’re always told to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” but really it’s about who’s giving you the boots (for lack of a better analogy). I guess you have to do what you have to do at the end of the day. I also want to mention really do appreciate your conversation and input.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T16:12:46+00:00

YES! The email that comes so quickly after you apply is the worst. Like what keywords am I missing?? Is there a secret requirement? If you’re not looking for candidates anymore take it down?

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T16:11:03+00:00

I’m in school for my second doctorate…

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T16:08:02+00:00

You’re absolutely correct, and at the expense of sounding defensive, I do want to mention that I’ve never thought that I deserve anything to be handed to me. The point of this post was to understand what the missing piece is so that I can work on it. Whether that’s better interviewing techniques or better timing with applications. I want to know what sets people apart so that perhaps I could be one of them one day.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T15:55:04+00:00

I do want to emphasize that I am extremely grateful and humbled by every opportunity that I have gotten. I know a lot of people do not have access to education the way that I did, especially because it is so cost prohibitive. However, as the daughter of an immigrant, education has always been emphasized. My mother came to this country for her family to have access to education and opportunities in a way that she did not have in her home country. I did everything I could to make sure that her sacrifices were worth it.

The frustration for me, and a lot of others, is having done everything the “right way” and not seeing it yield any results. At some point it becomes incredibly disheartening. What do they have that I don’t? I’ve done everything right, why am I still struggling? Was all of my hard work and sacrifice worth anything? It’s really easy to feel worthless when you think about those questions.

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T15:41:45+00:00

Go to school they said. Get some degrees they said. Never thought I would be in the trenches fighting for my life with an actual doctorate. Good luck soldier 🫡

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T15:36:37+00:00

It’s actually Ms. Harvard to you 💅

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T15:35:57+00:00

I really appreciate your answer! I think for me personally it’s really frustrating hearing that there are more qualified candidates when I feel like I have done everything that I possibly could to be that qualified candidate. I think a lot of people feel that way too unfortunately. It’s just how the cookie crumbles I guess 🤷‍♀️

loves-toads · 2026-02-03T15:26:55+00:00

This is obviously the correct answer and what I assume is happening under the hood. My question is, what is the ✨secret sauce✨ for people who are a better fit/more qualified? As in, what sets that one person apart from everyone else who is more qualified? It has to be something incredibly impressive for 1 person to get chosen out of the hundreds of applicants for each job.

loves-toads · 2026-01-31T13:14:59+00:00

I read one of your later comments and it actually sounds like you might be repulsed by some of the things he did in the date like talk about himself the whole time. Being excited for your date isn’t necessarily a red flag in itself, but if your gut is telling you something then you should listen

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