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Joshua
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Why did you choose to become a veterinarian doctor in today's world?
Why was becoming a veterinarian something you wanted to do.
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Zoey Bandimere
Veterinary technician
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Broomfield, Colorado
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As long as I can remember I have always wanted to work with animals. In fact when I was younger I wanted to be a veterinarian and went to college to start studying my undergrad courses. But while in school I realized that it wasn't for me, that I wanted something more hands on and pursued a degree in veterinary technology. I decided to still pursue a job in the veterinary field because I love getting to help my patients to the best of my ability. When I look back and imagine what else I could have done with my life nothing feels as right as being a vet tech. Knowing I'm doing the best I can to help the animals as well as their families is more gratifying than anything else. But the job is more than playing with animals, it's taking care of them and communicating with their owners. Treating the animals is not always glamorous and definitely not easy. It takes the right people with big hearts to do this job, and if you love and care for animals and want to do everything you can to take care of them then this is the right job for you!! Best of luck.
Apurva Jain
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Jersey City, New Jersey
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If you love animals, you may enjoy being a veterinarian because you get to interact with them every day. You directly handle pets and wildlife during evaluations and treatments. The work tends to be very fulfilling because you get to help animals remain healthy and live more comfortable lives.
Ellie Davis
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Loveland, Colorado
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Because I live animals and want to helo them live a long, healthy, happy life!
Michael Holzhauser-Alberti
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Urbana, Illinois
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Michael’s Answer
Another thoughtful question, Joshua. As I have indicated before, I had the good fortune of having a veterinarian in my immediate family and it gave me the necessary confidence and impetus to consider veterinarian as a career choice for myself. When there is such a strong connection to a future career in your own surroundings, one could say that I did not make the choice myself as much as the career chose me. Veterinarian, at the time, seemed to me at a crossroads of several disciplines: science, agriculture, business and economics. I remember my college classes such as the humanities which had a considerable impact on how I wrote my applications for vet school: I had wanted to be a humanist veterinarian! It therefore shouldn't come as a surprise, foremost to myself, that I ended up, for most of my career, in contributing to public health. When you decide to undertake studying for and preparing a career, it should always be with the following in mind: How will the world change, what is needed in the world, so that what I have studied (for) will remain relevant. Veterinarian, because it is at the crossroads of those disciplines, will allow you to do different things, and the future world which we will live in will require more and more pluri-disciplinary people and thinking. I think those humanity classes instilled in me, when I learned about, in particular, the renaissance age that there was an explosion of knowledge and a new form of learned individual. So the answer lies in your question: How can one go about choosing a career in any other way than connecting past, present, and future? The definition of career is probably that: to string together sometimes disparate job opportunities into a more coherent whole. All I can say is yes, being a veterinarian allowed me to do that and it is one of those careers that people get satisfaction from enough to pursue it throughout their entire active lives.
The above answer is supposed to represent a panacea (a liberal arts-based college education with a science concentration) to the many challenges today's world poses. A few years ago, the pharmaceutical company I was working for restructured and my position within the company would no longer be maintained. I left the company, and found myself unemployed. The next job I took had nothing to do with veterinary medicine; I needed to make a living. Doing that job for a few months made me continue to build my network, both with people within the veterinary profession, but especially those outside of it. Some of my soft skills, like the attention I pay to detail or literally being nimble on my feet, allowed me to do well in the new job (in retail), though I had not specifically prepared for it. This experience gave me the confidence to later pivot away from pharmaceuticals. In today's world where a lockdown may change the way a veterinarian can interact with clients, some of my veterinary colleagues have struggled financially. Then many people adopt pets because they are spending more time at home, which all of a sudden spells out not enough veterinarians just a little while after. A solid education, or rather the more solid you can make it, and veterinarian represented that as an extension of my college education, provides you with the tools to weather changing winds and participate in the roller coaster ride that is today's world.
The above answer is supposed to represent a panacea (a liberal arts-based college education with a science concentration) to the many challenges today's world poses. A few years ago, the pharmaceutical company I was working for restructured and my position within the company would no longer be maintained. I left the company, and found myself unemployed. The next job I took had nothing to do with veterinary medicine; I needed to make a living. Doing that job for a few months made me continue to build my network, both with people within the veterinary profession, but especially those outside of it. Some of my soft skills, like the attention I pay to detail or literally being nimble on my feet, allowed me to do well in the new job (in retail), though I had not specifically prepared for it. This experience gave me the confidence to later pivot away from pharmaceuticals. In today's world where a lockdown may change the way a veterinarian can interact with clients, some of my veterinary colleagues have struggled financially. Then many people adopt pets because they are spending more time at home, which all of a sudden spells out not enough veterinarians just a little while after. A solid education, or rather the more solid you can make it, and veterinarian represented that as an extension of my college education, provides you with the tools to weather changing winds and participate in the roller coaster ride that is today's world.