Tom Long admits his career was not the one he’d dreamed of. He’d hoped to one day open his own pharmacy and while he did work in retail pharmacy for about a year after graduation, an opportunity came knocking that he couldn’t resist. Tom was recruited by Bristol Laboratories to become a technical liaison between manufacturing and product development. From there his career took off with increasing responsibilities overseeing the manufacturing, engineering, packaging and management of some of the biggest names in the industry. In this edition of Occupation Station, Tom, who retired in 2008 as senior vice president and general manager, manufacturing and operations at Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc., talks about how his pharmacy skills gave him the baseline to jump into the challenging world of pharmaceutical manufacturing. Tom also talks about why the core values taught at ACPHS are vitally important in today’s workplace.