Personal Essay: Pursuing Veterinary Career

I used to tell my friends and teachers that I wanted to explore the medical field because that was what my family wanted me to do. They wanted me to become a doctor as it is a well praised profession that pays extremely well. As I grew older and entered middle school, I realized that becoming a doctor wasn’t something I was immensely interested in. Instead of a doctor, I wanted to become a veterinarian, treating animals instead of people. I’ve become aware of my passion for animals ever since I began having pets: from fish to hamsters to dogs. I decided to focus on animals when I first took one of my hamsters to a veterinarian. I thought that their profession was fun and interesting because it revolves around animals, something that I love and grown up with. Although studying veterinary sciences is difficult and competitive, becoming an animal doctor has been one of my greatest

I have an interest of being at a school where I want to be a vet tech. I would like to learn more about animals than I am now at the career center being in a animal care class. That would make my application complete trying to get into a school with vet tech classes. I would like to learn how to take care of sick animals and how the vet tech does x rays and all kinds of experience that I would like to see because i’m not getting that kind of experience at the medina county career center. Or to be a vet tech assistant because I love working with animals and it’s a type of career field I would really enjoy. I think really looking into the kind of hands on training with learning more about the animals I will really get a kick out of because that

Veterinary technicians are like the techies of the theatre; the organization would be able to function without them, but it would be much harder. Things run a lot more smoothly with vet techs. There are multiple benefits that come with being a veterinary technician. These benefits include, but are not limited to, a high job outlook, great room for advancement, and only two years of schooling (depending on the route you take). Above all, the animals, who aren’t always able to help themselves, are being taken care of.

Since I was four years old, sitting in my grandmother’s living room I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian. Anytime anyone would ask me “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I would simply answer with that. Not until I was told that I would be getting medically retired from the military, after 8 years, did I realize this was not what I wanted to pursue. I was 26 years old, realizing that animals don’t live forever and I would have to face death in this

I have also had a small amount of Equine husbandry and surgery assistant as well at Dr. Wendell Baker’s veterinary clinic, most of my experience surgery wise were several castrations, teeth floating, and restraining for x-rays. I have also had a great array of experiences while currently shadowing at the Cy-Fair Animal Hospital with Dr. Diarra Blue and Dr. Michael Lavigne in regards to small animal medicine. I have been exposed to so many situations and learned a very good amount of knowledge about veterinary medicine in general. Honestly I believe that everyone should contribute to society by doing what they love to do. I can honestly say that having a career as a veterinarian will allow me to serve society in the most effective way possible I want to help people by making sure their animals are one-hundred percent healthy, or help society with food safety by making sure livestock are safe and healthy for human consumption of those animals and their respective byproducts, or maybe be a part of maintaining and monitoring the health of certain wildlife for

Many of my friends and family have argued with the idea that I should pursue a more practical career, doctor, lawyer, teacher, to name a few examples. However, I was never attracted to that, I knew that, regarding their background, that they essentially did not really understand what it is to pursue those kinds of careers.

In 1908, the Canine Nurses Institute made the first organized effort to train veterinary assistants in England. It wasn't until 1989 that the AVMA officially adopted the term "veterinary technician." In 1981, the North American Veterinary Technician Association was formed to represent all veterinary technicians. The name has since changed to the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA), an organization that works closely with AVMA to protect, support, and promote the profession of veterinary technology. It's also responsible for the development and accreditation of veterinary technician specialties. It takes a lot to be a Veterinarian technician from the duties and tasks to the education and training that veterinarian technicians has to have which all comes down to the salary and benefits veterinarian technicians make.

Abby Tillotson Toews English 1 30 April 2015 Veterinary Technician Have you ever wondered what a Veterinary Technician does? In this essay I am going to tell you what a Veterinary Technician does and how to become one. I am going to be talking to you about a Veterinary Technician. The definition of a Veterinary Technology is the study of procedures used in the medical care of animals. I am interested in this because I love animals.

Demodex Mange and how it looks how it looks under the microscope. It was very interesting to see how it looked like. When I looked into the microscope it looked like a little animal. There was also scrapings from one of the dogs that had many tapeworm eggs. It was extremely intriguing seeing all those eggs under the microscope we found out that it was also contagious to humans. Scabies looked like an animal with little legs under the microscope. They are also found around the dog’s body. I was allowed to see the instruments that were going to be used in surgery. They were all in order and prepared neatly to make sure that the veterinarian is able to conduct the surgery without any interference or mistakes within the procedure. I thought it

Veterinarians provide medical services for animals that are big and small. Helping sick animals weather they are big or small. They provide medicine for house pets and farm animals. When owners take there pet to the vet they are looking for someone to provide information to them about their animal. Some of the information given to the own is about how to properly care for your animal to make sure it grows the right why. Veterinarians are there to help animals no matter the size.

The first day of my sophomore year put a halt in my previous plans to go to school to become a veterinarian. Every two years in my small high school, our Spanish teacher puts together a trip through EF Tours to one of the many countries in our world. That year she had decided that Belize was the destination. Although I didn’t have a clue where the country was, I added my name to the list and six short months later I had arrived in the Central American country. It wasn’t anything like I had expected. Apart from the humidity there was immense poverty evident in each town we went, which was also shown in the school’s that we visited. In that moment, a switch flipped in my head and I knew I wanted to do something to change that. By giving me this

Veterinary Medicine -- It Chose Me I strongly believe pursuing a career in veterinary medicine is not something one chooses through academics; it is something inside you, a passion. I cannot recall an epiphany when it just clicked for me. Instead an accumulation of personal and academic experiences has shown me that my life’s path is to become a veterinarian.

I have investigated making Veterinary Technology as my career in many ways. I began to have a large interest in animals from a young age. I started 4-H when I was nine years old and raised dairy goats as my project. I had always researched the Veterinary Field for every project I had done through school. I had the amazing opportunity to go to Grant Career Center for my last two years of high school in a Veterinary Science program. I was able to have a lot of great experiences with my instructor. We had rescue animals come to the school so that we could run heartworm tests on them and give them some of their vaccinations. I was able to run basic tests, learn how to draw blood, and multiple different skills that will help me in this field of work.

When I was in the third grade, I had a lamb that had been ran with dogs without us knowing, and they bit him. Each time after that a judge would feed his back and hips, he would jump through me and run through the ring. The animal chiropractor from Hobbs came and adjusted him to loosen him up to relieve the pain. Even though she relieved some of the pain, he still jumped every now and then out of fear.

What makes a Veterinarian career or job important? A student who researches the nature of a job, its working conditions, employment facts, the education and training, with the future job potential and earnings will be higher and more intelligent when figuring out a career they want. When doing a job like Veterinarian they are going to meet new people and be ready to learn new things everyday with the help of other people and animals.