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Becoming a veterinarian?

I think posting the WORST of what will happen is the best way to let someone truly decide what career path to take, If you post only the good with just a little bad, that is being very untrue to the profession and to the person considering that particular career. I applaud you all for being honest to what is truly entailed in being a vet tech or vet.
I thank you for my daughters who have wanted to be vet techs. I will have them read this thread to really decide if this is the career for them!
 
Em Wright said:
I've been stagnant for a long time until I realized this is what I really wanted to do. And not just because "I love animals". I dunno I'm just rambling... :p Sorry folks.
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That reminds me of an essay we had to write in our first quarter. You had to write about why you were trying to become a vet tech, and you absolutely could not use the phrase "Because I like/love animals". Some people found it very difficult.
 
Shiari said:
That reminds me of an essay we had to write in our first quarter. You had to write about why you were trying to become a vet tech, and you absolutely could not use the phrase "Because I like/love animals". Some people found it very difficult.
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That would have been a very easy essay. For me, at least. LOL.
How did you do on yours?
 
A page detailing my curiousity and my personality that pretty much dictates my entire philophy towards animals "If it is injured, you must help it".

Will all the rain we've been having I've been late getting to my lectures... because I'm rescuing worms from puddles.

Also included was that since I've never had a "healthy" animal until I got my first snake, I'd better know some of how to fix them. :p
Hamsters with tumors, a broken femur, 3 legs + eye problems
A wild caught Western Fence Lizard who had epilepsy
Dogs with epilepsy, hip dysplasia, lipomas, lung and brain tumors, food and flea allergies, a tendency towards pretending to have parvo, and maybe diabetes insipidus ... *shakes a fist at kumo*
Cats that had diaphragmatic hernias, asthma, formerly diabetic and then developed carcinomatosis, one that had to have a gastrotomy because he's an honorary labrador retriever, a cryptorchid, and one with behaviour issues who also likes to eat feces.
Even Jared had a sinus infection when he was little.

I need to be a vet tech in order to afford my animals. XD Especially Kumo who has, WITH my discount, cost me close to $10k in medical bills. and he's not yet 2 years old.


Oh! That's another thing. As a vet or vet tech... you WILL end up adopting a 'broken' animal at some point. :p I just started earlier than most.... I was kind of doomed into this profession. XD
 
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