that's amazing that's awesome and so this was a small CRO and then top talk
about how you know it was how long was it before they said that you could work
as a CRA or how long did it take for that opportunity come up um so the
opportunity came up exactly a year into my working there so it was May 2016
where a study was going to launch and we were prepping for it to launch four
months ahead of time but we thought that we may find a CRA that may be on the
west coast and able to handle flying into our CRO and then going to the sites
and we weren't able to find someone that was ready to do that and so the
president asked me do you do you feel comfortable doing it and that was
another one of those oops I'm jumping into the deep end because I had never
done CRA work before but it was great because I
got trained by the president of the company who has been in the industry for
how many years so that really helped and then on top of that I had the
opportunity to do a lot of random training through readings and things
like that okay yeah I mean that's one of the perks of working at a smaller
company is you get to try a lot of different things and opportunities come
up like that where you know you just say yes to it and then you're obvious I'm in
a different role so that's really cool yeah and that's one thing I definitely
recommend the larger zeros have the benefit of you know I guess job security
and things like that but if you aren't exactly sure what position you want
long-term smaller see arrows allow for you to learn a lot in a little bit of
time because you're always wearing multiple hats not that that's the case
for larger ones either but I think it's easier to do so in smaller companies for
sure so and then after you were doing the CRA
work were you just doing CRA work at that time or did you also have to wear
this study manager hat so at that time it became that others picked up a little
bit of the workload that I had as a study manager and because I was I was
going to the site's quite often I did the work while I was on the flights and
in between visits so that was fine but you definitely need to have extra backup
if you're trying to do both positions at the same time right so we just working
on one study at that time I was working on two and both of them were on the west
coast all right so you're traveling back and forth East Coast to West Coast long
flights during that time oh yes yep and that's one thing I can say if you can
make those productive then that's the the best thing you don't have to you
know there's so much downtime while you're sitting on the flights that you
can get a lot done worldwide or you can take it as you time especially if you're
flying a lot it's worth taking that as time to catch up on whatever you want to
do or training yourself on topics that you don't know yet he says professional
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