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| I am looking for input/ advice on choosing a career. First, let me start by saying I have been a vet tech for 5 years. I am 23, so most of my working experience is veterinary. I started at small animal clinics and have been at the same equine vet since March 2015. It is my comfort zone. I am married to a man in the Air Force. He is gone for about 5 months every 365 days (almost exactly), and while he is "home" he is gone 1/3 of the time. We should be moving (don't know where yet) in about 1.5-2 years just because that's how his job works. When we move, we will go and be wherever for 3-4 years and move from there etc. Given his career we probably will not be anywhere for more than 5 years for a while.
All of this being said, I am in college, currently getting my basics for vet school. I am not sure vet school is a reality for me though given our circumstances, and the fact that I don't think I want to wait ~10 years (time it will take to get basdics done and graduate) to start a family. I don't want to try to go to vet school, and raise a child while he's gone. Not sure I can juggle both by myself.
I am looking for career input. I like medicine. I started down the RN route, but it freaks me out because I don't know anything about people. I'm not the best people person unfortunately. I love biology in school....
I need something I can go to school for almost anywhere (because I don't know where we'll be), and something that has jobs available on a larger scale because again... I don't know where we'll be. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Nurse is a great option, but it's not for everyone. My friend did everything to be a nurse, because she could get a job anywhere if she had to, but only after a few years it's given her a lot of stress and PTSD from the things she's seen and dealt with. She doesn't know how much longer she wants to do this and she's been thinking about physical therapy. Being a nurse you're kind of seeing the "before" of a person, and at physical therapy you're helping the "after", if that makes sense. |
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| I worked in health care for 21 years (radiology technologist) went back and got my teaching degree. Would have done that 21 years earlier if i had know how much fun it is. I can not deal with stupid adults anymore. I did love Radiology when I was in it but looking back now not so sure I could do it again. Coding is a career that pays really well and you can go anywhere with it also you can do it from home so raising a child away from family and help would be so much easier. Also Biology medical engineering is a growing career today. As you well know every thing is computerized so you could stay in the vet area just work on equipment. One other career area that is growing is Pharmacy although those programs are very long and you may not be able to travel from one place to another while in school. Good luck with what ever you choose. |
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Location: Oakdale, CA | I think before you decide on a career you should decide what type of income you want. Also what kind of a work schedule??? |
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| Hi everyone, I'm struggling to choose a vet school.. And to be quite frank, I'm not sure I really want to go into veterinary medicine.. My dad has horse stables and offers riding courses. He wants me to study vet science at Penn Vet or the University of Georgia (I majored in Chemistry and Molecular Biology)... I don't know what to do. Ben 
Discussions: Choosing a career in vet medicine and writing my cover letter proessays
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | There are lots of medical jobs where you dont have to be a people person. Labs, specialty machines ect. I think that some research into thos field might enlighten you to something that peeks your interest. Also there are career driven people, and then there are people whos career finds them because of circumstances. Sounds like you have several exciting opportunities comming up with moves. The degree in a medical field will serve you well weather you are in the animal world or the human. Have fun (oh to be young again) and go forward with faith.  |
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Location: Texas | Equine veterinarian here... about waiting to start a family.. I had friends who had kids during undergrad and I even had a few friends get pregnant during vet school. I know it sounds crazy, but honestly... undergrad was like the least busy of my entire life. Now, after being out in the workforce and being a vet, the thought of having a kid right now freaks me out. No way... not with being on call every other day and every other weekend. Like the stress and problems I thought I had in college... take me back! Being the spouse of someone in the military may have some advantages on your application process, but I definitely can see how it would pose a challenge on selecting a vet school. If you got accepted into a school, would your husband be able to transfer locations to be where yall could live together still? Or do you absolutely have to follow where he goes? There are tons of job opportunities for small animal veterinarians. If you are wanting to be a small animal vet, you could likely find a job with ease in any town/city you moved to. Equine- not so much. |
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Location: Texas | Blodgett - 2020-09-29 6:03 AM
Hi everyone,
I'm struggling to choose a vet school.. And to be quite frank, I'm not sure I really want to go into veterinary medicine.. My dad has horse stables and offers riding courses. He wants me to study vet science at Penn Vet or the University of Georgia (I majored in Chemistry and Molecular Biology)... I don't know what to do.
Ben
Discussions: Choosing a career in vet medicine and writing my cover letter proessays
The vet school chooses you. It is so challenging to get accepted into vet school, you apply where you are absolutely willing to go and pray a school accepts you. And if you are on the fence about it... probably your gut is telling you its not meant for you. The job is super rewarding, but also very challenging- emotionally, physically, mentally.. Tons of burnout, tons of student loan debt, the salary is never what you expect it to be, and depending on what field you go in the risk of physical injury is high. I suggest you shadow a veterinarian for 6 months... either on a volunteer basis or see if you can get a tech job.. and see if the job is for you. If you're not 10000000% sure that being a veterinarian is what you absolutely want to do with your career... its probably not worth all the headache to try and get accepted and then complete school, internship, job, etc. |
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| I would also have to say that nursing would be a great option for you. Especially if your other half travels for work... you can easily pick up a travel assignment and travel with him, and the travel nursing money is GREAT!!! But yes nursing is not for everyone. I too was in animal medicine for years thinking it was where I wanted to be. I ended up in human medicine for the fact that so often people are selfish and will not spend to help their animals/family members. Yet, they will never not take care of themselves. Hospitals will always pay their employees and nurses will always have a job! There are so many different avenues to nursing it's amazing it's really the most versatile career. Good luck on ur career search! |
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| I was a registered respiratory therapist. I quit due to a move to a remote area/family farm, starting a family, etc but I miss it terribly. It's a career worth exploring and it's very diverse. From home care to running life support, I loved all of it!!! NI (babies) wasn't a fit for me but it's also a very fulfilling career if it's a fit. If you can, get the bachelors and not just the associates. You'll have more job availability, but depending on location you can make either work. People always have to breathe! And we RT's don't do poop like the nurses have to ?? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I'm betting since this thread is going on 3 years the OP may have already figured out what to do by now.. Maybe she can give a update on what shes doing now. |
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Location: Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2020-09-29 10:21 PM
I'm betting since this thread is going on 3 years the OP may have already figured out what to do by now..
Maybe she can give a update on what shes doing now.
dont you love when someone brings up an old post LOL. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | casualdust07 - 2020-10-01 8:58 AM
Southtxponygirl - 2020-09-29 10:21 PM
I'm betting since this thread is going on 3 years the OP may have already figured out what to do by now..
Maybe she can give a update on what shes doing now.
dont you love when someone brings up an old post LOL.
Theres a few more old threads that have been brought up and the ones that are doing the bumping up are Spam, they have gotton pretty smart on how they do it now, the ones I have really noticed are the ones that are posting someones elses pictures, like this one that bumped up this thread its got a horse lounging and using the name of Blodgett, this one is spam too. Theres a few more on here with random pictures of horses, look under the picture you will see a link to click onto. The recent one is the thread (Anyone have CV/letter of intent _____ ) and that thread is from 2014 thats spam that bumped this one up too, theres a link under the picture of the horse..Yep the spammers have gotton smarter, ha ha ha ha.. |
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