Thursday
こんにちわ。
Well here goes nothing. I've never written a blog and never been exposed to Japanese. I decided to study Japanese because I intend to move out west and work as a pharmaceutical patent attorney. Especially out west, the US patent industry is closely linked to Japan and China so being able to speak the language, even at a basic level, is extremely valuable. I promise to work hard and がんばって。
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My goodness, pharmaceutical patent attorney? What a strangely specific and incredibly interesting job choice. I wonder how this interest found you.
ReplyDeleteOh, and yes, I do intend to be an English major (this being in response to your post on my own blog). Was it that obvious? Maybe I should employ a bit of subterfuge...
Like Conor said, that is an extremely specific job choice! It's great to know what you want to do with your life though. I'm starting out completely new to Japanese as well, so it's nice to see that someone else has had no exposure to it. Some people in class are way ahead, but maybe we will catch up to them by the end of the semester.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad other people realize how important learning Japanese can be to your future career. I'm taking Japanese for many of the same reasons.
ReplyDeleteI'm from the West coast, and I've worked as a pharmacy assitant...
ReplyDeleteI assume you know what you're going into and I'm not trying to argue anything, but from what I remember, it was a boring job and most of the company labels were American.
@Conor: My first exposure to Patent Law was my Uncle who is in the field in Atlanta. As I explored it more I realized it was very interesting and was one of the few professions in the chemistry field that has a high level of human interaction. (I want to talk to people outside a lab setting)
ReplyDelete@Yi: I have had some experience in actual pharmacies as well and while I agree an average retail pharmacy like CVS is not a very exciting job, what I want to do is very different and interesting. Working as a patent attorney at an intellectual property firm specializing in pharmaceuticals/chemicals or FDA I would be doing a lot of mechanistic checking of various synthesis and being exposed to interesting new products years before they hit the market. While the companies are American they tend to deal with Asian countries, specifically Japan, when patents are infringed upon or when the product is to be exported. So while the vast majority of my work would be English based, Japanese could be useful, or at the very least, marketable.