WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:02.690 So at least, you know, three to four years, 2 00:00:02.690 --> 00:00:04.290 usually science related. 3 00:00:04.290 --> 00:00:07.470 line:15% A lot of them are chemistry or biology. 4 00:00:07.470 --> 00:00:09.737 line:15% I think most of ours were, some of them were different. 5 00:00:09.737 --> 00:00:12.098 line:15% And then you're generally four years 6 00:00:12.098 --> 00:00:13.570 line:15% in the veterinary school. 7 00:00:13.570 --> 00:00:16.430 line:15% So I'm probably one of the exceptions. 8 00:00:16.430 --> 00:00:17.890 I didn't do well my second year, 9 00:00:17.890 --> 00:00:19.890 so it was very very stressful 10 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:22.670 so I actually took some time off and then went back. 11 00:00:22.670 --> 00:00:23.920 So it took me five years. 12 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:28.200 line:15% But yeah, about four years and then that's to 13 00:00:28.200 --> 00:00:31.647 line:15% then take your boards and get licensed as a veterinarian. 14 00:00:31.647 --> 00:00:33.610 line:15% After that you've got options to go into 15 00:00:33.610 --> 00:00:35.470 line:15% either an internship, which is one to two years, 16 00:00:35.470 --> 00:00:37.540 a residency which is gonna be another three. 17 00:00:37.540 --> 00:00:42.050 So you can get board certified in surgery, dentistry, 18 00:00:42.050 --> 00:00:45.310 all sorts of things, but that's even more schooling. 19 00:00:45.310 --> 00:00:47.820 I did some shadowing, I started doing kennel work 20 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:50.680 when I was 14 so it was just getting into 21 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:54.660 a clinic, getting in there, cleaning up poop and pee 22 00:00:54.660 --> 00:00:57.138 and walking dogs and feeding dogs, and medicating dogs. 23 00:00:57.138 --> 00:00:59.310 line:15% And I think, you know, part of that for me 24 00:00:59.310 --> 00:01:01.740 line:15% was getting to know, I would pick up on 25 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:02.830 line:15% that one's not acting right. 26 00:01:02.830 --> 00:01:03.917 line:15% You know, hey he's here every weekend 27 00:01:03.917 --> 00:01:06.910 line:15% and he's not the same this weekend. 28 00:01:06.910 --> 00:01:09.280 So just starting to be around them, managing them, 29 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.660 their behavior, things like that. 30 00:01:11.660 --> 00:01:12.690 That's kind of a start. 31 00:01:12.690 --> 00:01:16.040 A lot of my connections going back to find jobs and things 32 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.930 were places I had done kennel work. 33 00:01:18.930 --> 00:01:20.520 So I did kennel work to start and then 34 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:23.270 that kind of got me into just being around it, 35 00:01:23.270 --> 00:01:24.730 seeing that nasty stuff I guess, 36 00:01:24.730 --> 00:01:26.310 making sure I could do that. 37 00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:29.100 We've had people shadow, that they try day after day 38 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:30.270 to watch a surgery and they can't. 39 00:01:30.270 --> 00:01:31.963 line:15% And that changes what they do. 40 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:35.490 line:15% So starting to do that, I remember going to a room 41 00:01:35.490 --> 00:01:37.010 line:15% after they'd just euthanized an animal 42 00:01:37.010 --> 00:01:39.770 line:15% and it was my responsibility then to take care of that. 43 00:01:39.770 --> 00:01:41.840 line:15% And that was the really, I mean that was kind of 44 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.320 a changing moment of wow okay this is different, 45 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:45.600 can I really do this? 46 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:48.340 So that was something that they kind of threw me into 47 00:01:48.340 --> 00:01:49.260 as time went on. 48 00:01:49.260 --> 00:01:51.600 So then I started being able to do assisting duties. 49 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:54.504 So helping restrain animals, help hold, help do a little bit 50 00:01:54.504 --> 00:01:56.035 of blood work, things like that. 51 00:01:56.035 --> 00:01:57.930 Just kind of moving up. 52 00:01:57.930 --> 00:01:59.830 It's a little bit different in the position of 53 00:01:59.830 --> 00:02:01.624 line:15% a lot of places will say find a job and stick with it, 54 00:02:01.624 --> 00:02:03.420 line:15% you know, at one location. 55 00:02:03.420 --> 00:02:05.550 line:15% I had a fellow veterinarian tell me 56 00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:07.220 line:15% to work as many places as I could. 57 00:02:07.220 --> 00:02:08.480 line:15% And I thought that was really weird, 58 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:09.980 line:15% but he said get a feel for all 59 00:02:09.980 --> 00:02:11.079 the different types of clinics. 60 00:02:11.079 --> 00:02:13.695 All the different types of doctors, all the practices, 61 00:02:13.695 --> 00:02:15.695 and find out what you really want to do.