Pursuing A Pharmacy Degree: Personal Statement

Earning a Masters in Business Administration has always been a long awaited goal of mine. I grew up in a small country in southern Africa known as Zambia and moved to the United States at the age of 16 with a goal of opening and managing my own pharmacy one day. I earned my Bachelors in General Studies at the age of 20 and my Doctor of Pharmacy Degree at the age of 24 from University of Louisiana at Monroe. After graduation, I knew the first thing I needed was work experience. I applied for several jobs and few weeks later I secured a position as a staff pharmacist with CVS. At CVS I found myself making the schedule, holding interviews to hire pharmacy technicians, making sure the inventory is managed correctly, and generating reports to provide a summary of the business to the pharmacy supervisor. As I continued to work and excel at my position, I was offered a promotion as a pharmacy manager which I thought about for a few weeks and finally decided to decline the offer and continue as a staff pharmacist.

My goal of earning an MBA degree was in front of me. I wanted to gain all the skills that are required to run a business effectively. It was the missing piece of the …show more content…
I was specifically looking for a school that allowed me to continue working because pharmacy is a career that is continuously evolving and if you are not practicing then you can miss out on the changes that are happening in the pharmacy world. For example, new drugs and new laws that are being implemented on a daily basis which means if I was not practicing then it will require me taking another pharmacy course to being me up-to-date with all the new rules and regulations. In addition to all of this, being able to work will mean that I can apply the knowledge that I am learning in the program to practical situations that present themselves while at