MANY pharmacists who walk away from the profession cite low wages as a factor for their decision to abandon a career they spent years studying to pursue.
However, British pharmacist, Roxy Hamedi, has dropped out and taken a pay cut to seek fame and romance on reality TV show, Geordie Shore: Hot Single Summer, a spin-off series of MTV's long-running Geordie Shore.
The Aberdeen-born 28-year-old told The Scottish Sun, that the call-up to join the cast of the show came after missing out landing places on the UK's editions of Love Island and Married At First Sight.
Hamedi noted that the show exposed her to characters she would never have had the opportunity to meet if she had remained in pharmacy.
"Some of them didn't know what a pharmacist does," she said.
"I had to explain that I've got a degree... I was the only one there in that line of work, everyone [else] was a dancer, singer or something like that.
"They had really cool jobs and I felt mine was a bit basic in comparison."
Despite briefly dating a fellow cast member, Hamedi said she had failed to find the love of her life, but she added that her brush with fame is setting her up for the high-life.
"I got what I wanted in the end, [and] I want to turn myself into a brand and have my own empire," she said.
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