As for Me....

I often get the question... "Why did you decide to become a pharmacist, anyway?" I have decided to use this post to attempt to answer that question the best I know how... 

I guess you need to know that my dad opened up Carroll Pharmacy when I was in the first grade. So needless to say, I have literally grown up in the pharmacy. Much of my time as a child was spent hanging out around the pharmacy looking for ways to occupy my time. Many may think that growing up in a pharmacy would make one want to run the opposite direction, and for some it does. My brother is a telecommunication/ film major at Alabama right now, pretty much as far away from pharmacy as you can get, but as for me I guess I just decided to stick around.

I grew up watching my dad serve the community through the pharmacy. Even as a little girl I could tell that he was helping people. I started working at the pharmacy officially when I was 15, and as a teenager, I could definitely begin to see what being a pharmacists was all about. I decided to go to pharmacy school my sophomore year at Alabama, even then, I still don't think I fully realized what I was getting in to.

Trussville Total Care Pharmacy opened in 2010, and I have spent the past four years during pharmacy school going between the stores working as a intern. I think it was during this time that I started to understand what being a pharmacist really meant to me.

Today, in both of the pharmacies we have these paintings hanging...

I think those paintings hanging up in the pharmacy really display why I decided to go to pharmacy school and work in my family's pharmacy. When I go to work everyday I not only feel like I am "helping people" and serving my community, but I feel like I have the perfect mission field to serve the Lord. Plus, I know I work for a company that has the same values and priorities as I do. I can't imagine myself doing anything else. When I talk to teenagers about what career that they may choose, I always tell them to make sure they pick a field where they feel called to serve God and His people. I'm far from where I want to be in my serving, and if I'm honest I know that there are some days when I am at work and I leave my godly attitude and heart at home, but I do know that everyday I try my best to serve  my patients and my Lord through what I do. My prayer for my career as a pharmacist is that I can make people's day a little better when they come see me at the pharmacy and that I always allow the love of Christ to shine through me. Like I said, I am not where I want to be yet, and I hope that I continually want more out of myself as I grow as a pharmacists and in my relationship with God.