Pharma Veterans

Alert for Career and Profession Changes – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #888 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #888 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Marily Torres Credit: Monstera Production Workers of all grades! You guys should consider doing these things, now.  One, learn and keep learning new skills while you are safely tucked in your present job. Learn skills related to your current profession, and also the professions which shall be in demand in the future. Two, do take pride in what you are doing and have been doing, but be mentally ready that you may have to do some other work. It may be an emotionally stressful event, and if it is, seek help to overcome it. Three, ...

Is Pharma Industry Ruining Careers? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #830 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #830 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Nicola Barts Photo Credit: Mikhail Nilov Photo Credit: Monstera Photo Credit: Vantha Thang A colleague working in a large MNC, who was few years senior to me when I started, once told me this. “I was about 18 years of age when I joined as medical representative. I had a rather large territory, and I traveled a lot with several night stays. My expense statement was bigger than most and I earned almost 1800 rupees a month. Earning 1800 at 18 was fantastic”. In the early 1970s, this amount of money was large by any standard. The gentleman kept rising through ...

Getting Up and Restarting After Career Setback – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #820 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #820 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Ann H Photo Credit: Mizuno K I have found few people whose career trajectory keeps rising throughout the career span. For ordinary mortals like me and many others, there are ups and downs during a long career. Personally, I have faced serious setbacks more than once. I have also seen it happening to others, have talked about it, and tried to find solutions together. Experiencing a career setback is certainly disheartening and challenging, but it doesn't have to be the end of the road. Setbacks are a normal part...

Career Setbacks – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #819 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #819 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Ron Lach This post is generally aimed at all working women and men, and especially towards Pharma colleagues. Why Pharma? The turnover in pharma sales teams ranges from 25 – 50%; very high as compared to office jobs in the same industry and all jobs in other industries. And it is not just due to stress; people working in small businesses receive very bad treatment, poor salary, and everyday attacks on self-respect, but they keep working at the same place for years. It should also be understood that stress is deliber...

Should We have Only One Career in Life? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #804 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #804 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Alexander Suhorucov Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Sarah Chai Ms. Su-Yen Wong is Singaporean, a hardworking, hard driving lady pursuing several interests, and presently working as a board director for organizations around the world, a professional speaker, and an adjunct professor of leadership at the top-ranked National University of Singapore. We have been connected on social media for couple of years. Previously, she had been pursuing the same career for several years. She took a leap of faith and reinvented herself. She then launch...