The Career of a Veterinarian is helping the sick animals and giving animals their medicines/vaccines. A veterinarian's job is to treat injuries and illnesses of pets/other animals. The education required or training requirements are, a Professionals degree and a doctor's degree. The number of years to get these degrees are 8-9 years. There are special tests/exams to become a Vet-In-Training. This test is called, North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE). There will be a lot of physical/personal requirements such as dealing with aggressive animals, patients (owners) not following the rules.
The skills this career requires are communication, compassion for the owners and animals, problem solving, decision making, and lastly manual dexterity. The annual salary on an hourly rate is $52.08. The salary can either go up or go down, the least you can make per year is $78,920 the most you can make is $128,410, so it's still a win-win. Education does not ever make a difference in salary as a veterinarian it always stays the same. As a veterinarian the required hours/days to work are 40 hours per week with at least some weekdays and weekends. This career can be found in a tremendous amount of cities. There can even be veterinarians that can travel! These types of veterinarians can work either outdoors or indoors.
There are many job benefits and job drawbacks to being a veterinarian. There can be nice colleges, beneficial promotions and you can shape your own career. Some drawbacks that can occur are, animals dying, not being able to help animals, getting paired with rude colleagues. There are always opportunities for advancement being a veterinarian. One advancement could be getting private practices. Advancement would require additional training if he or she wanted to be a specialist in the veterinary office. Advancement would not require additional training/duties. A veterinarian needs to continue education for 30 hours, every 2 years in order to keep their license. There are specific places of employment, and those places are private clinics or hospitals.
The typical day in life as a veterinarian would look like this:
When we go to work we first would grab all of our medical supplies, then we go to start taking animals into the clinic. Next we care for all of the pregnant/sick animals and show passion and love for those animals. After our lunch break we would go back to taking animals. That is the day in life as a veterinarian.