I must have terrible odds

I'm not sure why I keep rolling the dice and getting snake eyes, but every time I get a new job, it ends up being a disaster.  As I had stated earlier in my posts, one of the pharmacists did not like me and was making my life hard.  It turns out that she decided she did not want me in the pharmacy anymore and ended up having the technicians nit-pick every little thing I did and bring it to my boss.  Now, I know I'm not the best pharmacist.  I am not perfect nor would I ever expect anyone else to be.  But to have every little spelling mistake, every mistouch of the keyboard, every decision I make, questioned and doubted over and over again, it made my pharmacy life a living hell.  The only light was my co-worker Kelly, who would check my work and she knew what they were doing was wrong.  I think without her, I would've felt that I was completely incompetent.  I was assured by her, a pharmacist who has worked in retail for 11 years and has worked with many different pharmacists, that I am not incompetent and in fact one of the better pharmacists she has met.  She defended me on so many occasions and we even went to the head of the pharmacy department to plead my case.  Nothing worked.  My boss decided that he would rather take the word of a pharmacist who has gotten 2 other pharmacists fired rather than listen to reason.  So 2 weeks ago, I made the decision to quit.  It was really hard and I am still extremely angry about the whole situation.  However, crying before work everyday and crying before bed every night is not a way to live.  In the end, the people who defended me even agreed I was making the correct decision and could not believe the villainy of the whole situation.

So here I am, jobless.  Happier, that's for sure.  I've decided that with my free time, I'm going to travel a little bit.  Since I have a trip to Greece coming up that was planned almost a year in advance, I really can't work until after the trip.  So I'm spending an extra week down in Florida visiting my best friend from University at Buffalo who is also a pharmacist.  I am also heading up to Albany to be with my family, who were incredibly worried about me because of the stress the pharmacy caused me.  I know I should be able to find a job soon, however the timing is unfortunate and I am worried that many jobs will be snatched up by new graduates.  Hopefully my experience will help me rise above the rest.

Looking forward to an amazing family vacation away from all this.