hummingbird521
06-23-2006, 04:09 PM
This has been the worst day i have experienced in quite some time. On a previous post i stated that i was so excited to have found my dream job. The one where i could go back to respiratory therapy for a dme/pharmacy company. Well now i can't. the state medical board sent my another application (since i had let my license expire) for me to reapply for another one. I received it yesterday. I call the board for help filling it out. It had a section in it for education for the school to fill out. I attended school for 2 1/2 years but did not graduate. i was grandfathered into the license because at one time you could on the job train for it. For years you could do this. so this is how i obtained my original licensure. So when i called the board back they told me that since i had grandfathered in this way that now i would have to attend school and graduate to take the state board test. I cannot pick up schooling where i left off. And the course i took originally was a correspondence course which the board does not recognize anymore. In short i cannot sit for testing alone, school is what i would have to do. the closest school to me is in the state capital. that is 5 hours away from here. i called the pharmacist that offered me the position and spoke with him about it. he is unsure now if he can place in the position or not. he is doing some checking to see if it might be possible or not. so i am up in the air now. don't know if i have a job or not. need one NOW. gave my notice 3 weeks ago and yesterday was my last day at work. he has already hired someone else as well. i cried all morning about it. talked with my husband at lunch as well. he won't admit it but he is worried about bills now. why is it that every time i think life is going well, something happens. am i doomed or what. now all i can do is pray that the pharmacist finds something for me or can still use me in the capacity for which i am qualified. i do not want to go back to school again, and quite honestly can't afford it, and can't live there for 4 years either. :(