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|MAKING DRUGS                         |
|         Not the cool ones           |
|My life wasted serving Big Pharma    |
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The title is about as complete a summation
of my carrier as any other one I've tried
to write on LinkedIN.

I started working in Biotech in the mid
to late 90's. I found myself in a chance
temporary position proofing and finish
editing artwork for drug and supplement
packaging. Any time I sought work
elsewhere I always ended up falling onto
something that went back to that experience.

Fast forward many decades and I have spent
most of my professional time doing some
sort of work that involved the developement
of clinical-to-commercial drugs.

And before you ask, no I don't name them.
I am many things but I am not an idiot!
Ubrelvi, Umfenxin, Imfinzi, Durvalumabab.

At this point I'm thoroughly convinced
that not only do we allow AI to do the
protein research we also let it name
the product and write the scripts for the
commercials.

That's the only way I can fathom we get
commercials with a grandmother of non
indentifiable ethnicity who teaches a
basket weaving course at a community
college then stepping into her TransAM
to hurry to a mountain summit/baloon
release for her husband who also had Type
2 irritable earlobe chronic staph
inflammation.

Mind you this is all while a soft spoken
lady reads a list of some of the most
foul side effects and contraindications.
"Red mouth, ringed nostril, excessive
eye crust, peanut butter butthole"
"Don't use Urfuckedup if you have had
any childhood traumas or are on the
Virgo side of being a Leo"

Do I like what I do? Initially yes and for
many many years I couldn't figure out
how an entire industry got such a bad
wrap. It wasn't until COVID that I saw
my fairly harmless company turn into
something completely different.
That is a story for another time however.

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07MAY24

I spent the bulk of my career split between
worlds.

The clinical proto formulation
process where I took part in the developement
formulation so we could refine the process
and prepare to scale up to go to market.

Final Product Packaging. I would take
newly minted market drugs and help guide
designers on what packaging, fonts, colors
and internal configurations to use in order
to be compliant with Federal Regulations
and still have it be a nice product to look
at (Yes I know it's a medicine).

My duties included figuring out pallet
configurations so they took up as little
warehouse space and were rigid enough for
transport when they shipped. (Yawn)