Career Blueprints
Elkins Park Woman Finds Her Career 'Center’
Meet Amy Quigley, yoga teacher and former chemist.
Career transitions are never easy, but consider Elkins Park resident Amy Quigley; she put down her test tubes and Bunsen burner and successfully shifted to a new position teaching yoga. You can find her several days a week teaching yoga classes at the Kokikai Aikido studio near the Elkins Park train station. So how did this unique metamorphosis take form? For 15 years, Quigley worked diligently as a synthetic organic chemist at Merck Pharmaceuticals. When her position was suddenly eliminated due to a corporate restructuring, Quigley took advantage of her 9-month severance period to explore new options. Despite the fact that she had a good run at Merck, she never really loved the job. Quigley’s unfortunate unemployment status led to an …
Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein
8:59 am on Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I have been doing yoga for 15 years, but Amy's classes are by far my favorite. She has a way of teaching that encourages you to try new things and helps you to laugh through the mishaps that may happen along the way. Merck's loss is definitely Amy's students' gain. more ›