Life choices.

Ever since I was in high school, I always wanted to become a pharmacist, so I made sure to always work hard to receive excellent grades and become a straight A's student. Finally, after all this time my hard work finally paid off, and I graduated from high school! But now...I am wondering if I should EVEN go to CEGEP and just apply for a regular job? Now, I am stuck with these two options: Look for a job or enroll into CEGEP.

Choice 1 : Job hunting.

Choice 2 : Enroll into CEGEP.

Job hunting.

So, I decided not to put myself the extra stress of CEGEP and decided to go out to look for a job. Yeah...apparently, even when I was at the top of each of my classes in high school...it's still hard to find a decent job when you just have a DEC. Most of my days are now just sitting around looking at applications, going to interviews where I PRAY that the'll hire me and moping around when I get rejected. My parents are trying to cheer me up (god bless them), so one day my dad tells me: Son if I were you, I would enroll in CEGEP, while you still have a chance. So, because of that now I'm wondering:

Choice 1 : Keep looking.

Choice 2 : Try again

Enroll into CEGEP.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to enroll into CEGEP. I sent a request to enroll at CEGEP Montmorency in the programme Natural Science, and I was accepted! The first few weeks were good....but slowly I started putting aside a lot of homework, and I noticed that my grades where going down faster than I expected, and it was really maddening! So, one night I sat myself down and asked myself:

Choice 1 : Suck it up.

Choice 2 : Try again

Keep working.

So, in the end I decided to suck it up and to keep working (mostly because NOW I had bills to pay). Everything was going good, I was making fewer mistakes, found new ways to work that won't cause me serious pain when I'm older, but there was just ONE problem...I usually make sure to keep away from office politics, but more often then not it still found a way to pull me in. There was this other employee who would undermine me and also spread rumors about me. One day, a colleague pulled me aside saying how that one employee was going to tell the boss that I was doing some SERIOUS misconducts on the job. So now, I'm left with 2 choices:

Choice 1 : Do nothing about it.

Choice 2 : Go to HR.

Suck it up.

I rolled up my sleeves and started working harder now. I made schedules to help with my time management, and I found tricks to help me pass my classes, like a glossary to help me remember specific words for my biology class (I kept mixing up meiosis with mitoses). It was overwhelming, but I was able to pull it off, and I was able to graduate! But after all this time and work, I realized that If I wanted to become a pharmacist, I would still need to go to university and do an internship before I can even get my license, so during the celebration party my family threw me (they were really proud), I thought to myself:

Choice 1 : Look for a job.

Choice 2 : Go to University.

Do nothing about it.

I decided to do nothing about it because I taught the boss would not believe him....oh how I was so wrong. Apparently because of ALL the mistakes I did in the beginning, it wasn't hard for my boss to believe that I would be doing a number of misconducts on the construction site...So, he fired me. Now I'm moping around, I had to move back into my parent's house, since I couldn't pay my rent anymore. So, one night as I'm eating a big tub of ice cream (don't judge me!), my father comes up to me and says : Adriano, if I were you, I would enroll into CEGEP, you still have time and because you were a straight A's student in high-school of course they would accept you into whatever program you want. So, now I'm left with only one option:

Choice 1 : Enroll into CEGEP.

Go to University.

I decided to enroll to university and to be honest...it's really fun actually. Hanging out with friends, going to parties, going on dates, I taught I somehow went to heaven. But just like CEGEP, I started making the same mistakes, my grades were slipping, and I was getting really frustrated. It even dawned on me that this would be my life FOR FOUR LONG YEARS!! And I'm telling myself I'm doing all this, so I can accomplish my dream of becoming a pharmacist. So, one night I sat myself down, because now I had a really important choice to make that will determine the REST of my life:

Choice 1 : Follow my dreams.

Choice 2 : Quit everything

Go to HR.

Instead of doing nothing, I went straight to HR and told them everything. They fired the employee that was dragging my reputation threw the mud, and I was given an extra weekend day (as compensation). After that, it gave me the energy to work more. Slowly slowly, I started getting promotion after promotion where after a while I was now the head director of the Construction company. Years later, I can finally enjoy my retirement, my mortgages were paid off, and I can travel wherever and whenever I want with my family thanks to all the money I set aside. But now, as I'm relaxing under the warm sun of the Caribbean's, I ask myself how my life would have turned out if I made different choices in my life?

Choice 1 : Try again

Follow my dreams.

I decided to follow my dreams of becoming a pharmacist and to finish university...that and also because I was too scared to tell my parents that all the money they spent was going to waste. So, I buckled down and did all the same tricks that I used for CEGEP. It took a while, but I quickly got back into it, and I finished with honors! Now, all I had to do was go to pharmacy school to get my license. One day, my mom showed me this pharmacy school that would let me take up an internship to become a pharmacist, and I would finish much quicker. So, now I had two options:

Choice 1 : Take the internship.

Choice 2 : Just go to pharmacy school.

Take the internship.

I decided to take the internship, since it would give me the chance to get my license earlier, it would also give me a glimpse to what its like being a pharmacist. So, there's the part where your behind the counter and help customers with their prescriptions, witch I already know, but I discovered, that it's only one of the parts of the job. So, apparently pharmacist also have to take care of the managing aspect of the pharmacy, like hiring employees, purchasing the stocks and many other things. I also discovered that pharmacists were usually always on their feet. With all this new information, I'm wondering if I would be able to take on all this extra responsibility or if I should just quit and find another job:

Choice 1 : Look for a job.

Choice 2 : Receiving my license.

Just go to pharmacy school.

Instead of taking the internship, I taught it would be best to go to pharmacy school, do the time I need and then get my license. The problem with this is that even with ALL the tricks I've acquired from CEGEP and university, my classes are still tough due to all the remembering I need to do. One night during my study break I'm wondering what if it just wasn't for me since the start, maybe I should just stop and look for a job, maybe I should take the internship to lighten my work load, or maybe I should just stop complaining, I made it this far, so I know that I can finish this:

Choice 1 : Look for a job.

Choice 2 : Take the internship.

Choice 3 : Receiving my license.

Look for a job.

Apparently even with my CEGEP and university degrees it's still hard to find a good job for my field. The only job that's looking promising is this position for a Construction company. It's not too late, I haven't dropped out of school yet, so I can still get my license, or should I just risk it all and quit:

Choice 1 : Receiving my license.

Choice 2 : Job hunting.

Receiving my license.

I did it...I ACTUALLY DID IT! I got my license, all my hard work as finally paid of, I'm now a pharmacist!! This is the greatest moment of my life. It took about a week, but I found this great position for a pharmacist in my local Pharmaprix with a premium wage. But, before I can accept, I remembered that since I am a licensed pharmacist, I can open and run my OWN pharmacy. With these two great options, I'm wondering if I should:

Choice 1 : Take the position at the big-chain pharmacy company.

Choice 2 : Open my own pharmacy.

Take the position at the big-chain pharmacy company.

At the end I decided to take the Pharmaprix position. Everything was going well, I had a great schedule, a fantastic salary, and I was quickly promoted to a higher position, so now I also take care of the managing position of the store. One night, after completing the inventory log I had an epiphany. I've been working for this branch for a while, and I know how they operate, and I also have a decent amount of money set aside so...why not just open my own pharmacy in the end? But, not all businesses succeed so should I just stay where I am now:

Choice 1 : Open my own pharmacy.

Choice 2 : Stay where I am.

Open my own pharmacy.

After a lot of thinking, I decided to open my OWN pharmacy, thanks to the money I borrowed from a bank. At first, things were rocky, but then after a couple of months everything was running smoothly. One day, I'm approached by a company that would like to buy the rights to my pharmacy and to turn it into a franchise (like Pharmaprix, Jean Coutu, etc.). They offered me a VERY generous compensation package with enough money that with some smart investing and saving, me and my family would never have to lift a finger ever again. So, that night I was thinking to myself, should I keep my pharmacy or should I sell it and retire earlier than planned?

Choice 1 : Keep the pharmacy.

Choice 2 : Sell the pharmacy.

Stay where I am.

In the end, I decided to stay where I was. After 50 years of helping customers, of hiring new employees and what felt like an ETERNITY on my feet, I can now retire in peace. I was given a very generous pension by the people of Pharmaprix and tanks to all the money I set aside from investing wisely, I was able to pay off my mortgages. Now, I can travel whenever and wherever I want with my family. As I'm relaxing under palm trees in the Caribbean's, I wondered how my life would of turned out if I made different choices?

Choice 1 : Try again

Keep the pharmacy.

In the end, I decided to keep my pharmacy instead of selling it. After a few years, I put up a few more pharmacies and quickly turned it into a franchise all on my own. After years of running the company, I past it down to my children so that I could finally enjoy my retirement by traveling wherever and whenever I want. One day, as I relax under a palm tree in the Caribbean's, I wonder how my life would have turned out If I made different choices threw out my life?

Choice 1 : Try again

Sell the pharmacy.

In the end, I decided to sell my pharmacy to the big name company, and they quickly turned it into a franchise. Thanks to their compensation package, me and my family would NEVER have to lift another finger ever again. Now that I'm retired, I usually spent most days just traveling whenever and wherever I want, one day as I'm relaxing under a palm tree in the Caribbean's, I wonder how my life would have turned out if I made different choices?

Choice 1 : Try again

Keep looking.

After a while I FINALLY found a job! There was this Construction company that had a vacant position for a laborer, so I took it. I figured "eh, my grandfather did construction when he immigrated to Canada, so how hard can it be?" OH DEAR LORD, it's harder than it looks! When I first started, I did on-the-job training, and since there was no one for me to talk to when I had questions, it led me to make plenty of mistakes. This led my boss to withhold my pay (witch already wasn't that great). So, now I'm in the scorching hot sun, breaking my back for peanuts, thinking to myself:

Choice 1 : Keep working.

Choice 2 : Enroll into CEGEP.