Bitter Truth #2: Not a job for the fainthearted

Like what I wrote earlier, kaaway tayo ng mga pasaway at nagmamarunong na nagseself-medicate. Don't get me wrong – From what little experience I have had, I can say that people are generally nice. However, we have to accept that some people are just plain mean. May mga taong salbahe lang talaga.

Because of their limited understanding, these people will treat you as if you're beneath them. You are not a certified Community Pharmacist until you have been scolded and cursed at. Sisigawan ka, duduruhin ka at/o mumurahin ka. This can all be done simultaneuosly to you.

It can traumatize you (it did me). You see, nobody told me that the job of a Pharmacist is not for the fainthearted. Don't worry, as we have no choice but to grow stronger emotionally and not let some people's meanness and stupidity get the best of us.

It is through these experiences that you will appreciate further the nice customers – the ones who give the effort to smile or thank you, the ones who have been patient and did not complain aloud to you when they had waited a very long time for their turn, the ones who are understanding even when you aren't able to give them enough change because you just didn't have anymore centavo coins. GOD bless these people for making our work more tolerable.