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Certification for Career

Detroit, MI

I am hoping that someone out there can lend me a little advice. I am currently in the mortgage business and have been thinking about changing feilds for some time now. After a a lot of research I am trying to get into pharmaceutical sales. I know I can sell I just don't have the experience. SO I found a few website that send you books (for $300)... then you take their test and get a certificate for the feild. If this is a scam? It seems like a good idea.. Other than this certification I don't know how to get my foot in the door. Compared to the mortgage industry, pharmaceutical sales just seems much more stable. Maybe I'm wrong...

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New Boss

Minneapolis, MN

I have a new boss (my old one was shown the door about 6 months ago) who is based in another state, and has only last week had time to meet with me individually for my performance review. She did say that she didn't know enough about us yet to judge, so she used comments she got from other people. One comment was strikingly similar to a comment my ex-boss made (which I feel was unjustified; it said something about not being at the level I should be at for this stage in my career!). I was really hoping the new boss would wait to make an honest assessment on her own, and it's bothering me that she now has this negative impression of me without even knowing me. I didn't go into detail with her that several others had left the company under the other boss, and all the complaints about her. Should I have said this? I don't want her to get the impression that I'm complainer, but at the same time this has been eating at me all weekend.

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