Being a vet
Veterinarians care for animals health. Diagnose, research and treat injury, disease and other medical problems. Being a vet is a great job. They make about $82,000 a year, have the title of doctor and get to work with animals. Plus with population increase there's expected to be a big boom in food and health industries, including veterinarians, increasing twice as fast as average
Their are five main types of veterinarians:
- Companion animals- treat pets
- Equine- treat horses
- food animal- treat livestock
- food safety and inspection- check for disease and sanitary conditions for food animals
- research- research human and animal disease
Though they do need a lot of schooling. Need four years of undergraduate study, a veterinary degree from a veterinary university, ($50,000/yr) a federal and state liscence and usually have a year of on the job training.
A vet must be a good problem solver to figure out what's wrong with an animal. They must have good communication skills to explain the situation to the owner. they also must be able to make big decisions about treatment. Finally,a vet must be generally compasionate towards both animals and their owners.
There's a lot of math involved in being a vet.
You must:
- figure out drug dosages
- make radiograph and ultrasound calculations
- find weight, BFC specifically
- understand statistics
- do accounting in running a practice
- figure out flow rates in fluid therapy
