Now when it comes to being a vet you have to do training. When I mean training I mean school. Veterinarians have to be in school with a total of 7-9 years. 3-5 years undergraduate plus 4 years of veterinary school. Really good vets go to college at the University of California-Davis. Some pursue 2 to 5 years of additional residency training leading to board certification and practice within a wide variety of medical or surgical specialties, such as neurology, cardiology, dermatology, orthopedic surgery, equine medicine, zoo medicine, etc. Instructors teach courses that encourage professional-level students to develop the problem-solving skills and strategies that promote animal health. Faculty members also conduct basic and clinical research and provide various services to the public. …show more content…
We need to get paid that is why we have to get a job.
We need to have a house, car, water, food, and clothing that is why we need to get a job to pay for all of these things. The first year of practice can expect to earn a salary of approximately $60,000.Owners average $120,000 in earnings per year, compared to $80,00 per year earned by an associate employee.The best-paid veterinarians earned $161,070, while the lowest-paid earned $52,470. Specializations in surgery, internal medicine, radiology and theriogenology all registered annual salaries between $121,000 and $133,000 per year. As part of a survey, the results showed that vets with a specialization in lab animal medicine earned an annual income $169,000 while veterinary pathologists averaged a salary of $157,000 per
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You start of hard because you don’t really know what you're doing. The content is not that difficult to understand at all (at least the first year stuff). Vets go to school from 8-3:30ish (the first semester is around 5ish) and then when they go home, vets have to sit there for a second and decompress. When you're on block scheduling, all your tests seem to hit at the 4 and 8-week marks making those absolute horrible weeks. There are a lot of exams and it can get very stressful but you have to learn how to balance your time. Vets try to keep Saturday down to no more than 1-2 hours of studying, even if I have a big test or three coming up. It depends on the credit hours. Physiology is basically every day. Anatomy lecture is also just about every day. Strangely, parasit is almost every day, too, even though it is worth less credit hours.
Those are the reasons why I want to be a vet. Not only you get paid a good amount of money, but you get to see new animals every day. You also help the animals that need help. I just love helping animals every day.