ummmm....Where the nearest exit ?
Living the dream, late 20's making 6 figures..company car, good benefits, free gas but loosing my mind.
Where do I begin?...been in Pharma for a little over a year and it finally hit me I'm not cut it out for this travesty. My gosh...its hard to up get it in the morning. Yes i've had others jobs were the work was more and pay much less and customers where tough to deal with but the mind f*ck of this industry is unparalleled.
There is absolutely no respect or value in this field. I joined pharma thinking I was going to have an impact on people, a rewarding job where I was respected by my customers and peers. A place where advancement opportunities came to those who put in the time and worked hard. A company where my supervisor didn't play favorites and invested his time in my development, a place where people worked as a team and collaborated to increase sales.....but boy has this been anything farther from the truth. Instead my job description best suits a clown with his red nose and floppy shoes who works in a circus and sole purpose is to entertain the office cows in return of access and scripts.
In this job all laws of logic, science and reason are thrown out the window and if you dare use them you are the bad guy! If you want to get into pharma consider the following..
#1 Laziness has killed this industry. The lazy rep becomes the lazy manager, the lazy manager expect knowledge and results of things he was too lazy to address. Your lazy counterparts are offended if you log in too many calls or work a full shift. Oh, and heaven forbid you get to see a doctor more often by waiting a bit longer than they are used to, then your added effort will be seen as call falsification and will need to be explained with your manger on your next field ride.
#2 Avoid jobs with Pods - Honey Booboo has been with the company...oh my... for 4 years and she has still not gotten her promotion!!! Well, Honey Booboo will and start canceling your lunches and appointments with doctors behind your back, accuse you of call falsification and report the slightest mishap just to make sure you don't get ahead in line (True story). Trust no one. Anything past hello or goodbye will be scrutinized and used against you in the court of morons.
#3 Do you need a signature?! - look around if you don't see anyone from Fedex or UPS then this is you cue to put on the show! start juggling chainsaws as you deliver your 10 second detail approved by your retard manager. Don't worry about the mindless look on the Doctors face after all you dropped the samples and gave them lunch so your job here is done!
#4 The rejects ruin the culture - See that miserable rep from Pfizer or Merck on other blog hating his life and the values of his company...well guess what?! soon he will be your new manager...Surprise!! Ironically he'll start implementing the same stupid tactics down the food chain and pass on the misery from all his previous jobs on to you.
#5 Check your ego at the door...no better yet throw it out the window. The longest intellectual conversation you will have with anyone in an office will be with the MA about last night's episode of the Kardashians or about what type of food you are bringing next time. Would you like fries with that? White or wheat? Diet or regular? Somedays I swear i'm fooled into thinking that I work for either UPS or McD's or both! (Disclamer: nothing wrong with working at McDs or UPS both of these professions have more value than a pharma rep)
#6 - The higher your emotional intelligence the more you will suffer. If you held any real sales job before AND were ever good at it then you've developed the ability of sensing emotions and picking up cues rather quickly. The moment you realize that on your best day the same value you bring can be done by a 12yr old delivery boy then thats the day the floor will be removed from under you. Hence, the industry is left with either A) individuals with no emotional intelligence AKA retards, meatheads and bimbos or B) those who have sold out for the money...same class as strippers, prostitutes, used car salesman and debt collectors.
#7 Being a pharma rep is like buying a new car, the more miles you have in the industry the less value you in the market. "Pharma Reps need not apply" or "Will entertain the idea of pharma reps with no more than 5 years of pharma experience" are the words under some of the other sales jobs I've encountered. Your better off deleting pharma of your resume and just telling your new employer that you just woke up from a 5 yr self induced coma.
My job is up for grabs you can have it. I'm done
Living the dream, late 20's making 6 figures..company car, good benefits, free gas but loosing my mind.
Where do I begin?...been in Pharma for a little over a year and it finally hit me I'm not cut it out for this travesty. My gosh...its hard to up get it in the morning. Yes i've had others jobs were the work was more and pay much less and customers where tough to deal with but the mind f*ck of this industry is unparalleled.
There is absolutely no respect or value in this field. I joined pharma thinking I was going to have an impact on people, a rewarding job where I was respected by my customers and peers. A place where advancement opportunities came to those who put in the time and worked hard. A company where my supervisor didn't play favorites and invested his time in my development, a place where people worked as a team and collaborated to increase sales.....but boy has this been anything farther from the truth. Instead my job description best suits a clown with his red nose and floppy shoes who works in a circus and sole purpose is to entertain the office cows in return of access and scripts.
In this job all laws of logic, science and reason are thrown out the window and if you dare use them you are the bad guy! If you want to get into pharma consider the following..
#1 Laziness has killed this industry. The lazy rep becomes the lazy manager, the lazy manager expect knowledge and results of things he was too lazy to address. Your lazy counterparts are offended if you log in too many calls or work a full shift. Oh, and heaven forbid you get to see a doctor more often by waiting a bit longer than they are used to, then your added effort will be seen as call falsification and will need to be explained with your manger on your next field ride.
#2 Avoid jobs with Pods - Honey Booboo has been with the company...oh my... for 4 years and she has still not gotten her promotion!!! Well, Honey Booboo will and start canceling your lunches and appointments with doctors behind your back, accuse you of call falsification and report the slightest mishap just to make sure you don't get ahead in line (True story). Trust no one. Anything past hello or goodbye will be scrutinized and used against you in the court of morons.
#3 Do you need a signature?! - look around if you don't see anyone from Fedex or UPS then this is you cue to put on the show! start juggling chainsaws as you deliver your 10 second detail approved by your retard manager. Don't worry about the mindless look on the Doctors face after all you dropped the samples and gave them lunch so your job here is done!
#4 The rejects ruin the culture - See that miserable rep from Pfizer or Merck on other blog hating his life and the values of his company...well guess what?! soon he will be your new manager...Surprise!! Ironically he'll start implementing the same stupid tactics down the food chain and pass on the misery from all his previous jobs on to you.
#5 Check your ego at the door...no better yet throw it out the window. The longest intellectual conversation you will have with anyone in an office will be with the MA about last night's episode of the Kardashians or about what type of food you are bringing next time. Would you like fries with that? White or wheat? Diet or regular? Somedays I swear i'm fooled into thinking that I work for either UPS or McD's or both! (Disclamer: nothing wrong with working at McDs or UPS both of these professions have more value than a pharma rep)
#6 - The higher your emotional intelligence the more you will suffer. If you held any real sales job before AND were ever good at it then you've developed the ability of sensing emotions and picking up cues rather quickly. The moment you realize that on your best day the same value you bring can be done by a 12yr old delivery boy then thats the day the floor will be removed from under you. Hence, the industry is left with either A) individuals with no emotional intelligence AKA retards, meatheads and bimbos or B) those who have sold out for the money...same class as strippers, prostitutes, used car salesman and debt collectors.
#7 Being a pharma rep is like buying a new car, the more miles you have in the industry the less value you in the market. "Pharma Reps need not apply" or "Will entertain the idea of pharma reps with no more than 5 years of pharma experience" are the words under some of the other sales jobs I've encountered. Your better off deleting pharma of your resume and just telling your new employer that you just woke up from a 5 yr self induced coma.
My job is up for grabs you can have it. I'm done
Broke into Pharma...and Now I want out
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