Is the veterinary profession worth it? Nine reasons not to be a veterinarian
Nine reasons not to be a veterinarian
Nine reasons not to be a veterinarian
1. High-risk profession. In recent years, the incidence of so-called zoonotic diseases has been rising, and veterinarians, being on the production frontline every day, face a very high chance of exposure. There have also been many cases of infection and death from clinical work in recent years, especially in large livestock.
2. High stress. In recent years, the chaos in veterinary drug management has meant that many veterinary drugs do not meet regulations. Veterinarians do not even know what they are using during administration. In clinical use, even if you throw yourself into it wholeheartedly, you may still fail. How can you not be trembling with fear?
3. High demands. Veterinary medicine is a rapidly developing discipline. If you do not want to be eliminated and do not want accidents to happen, you have no choice but to keep reading, reading, and reading more. In recent years, many national policies have targeted the veterinary industry, with endless exams, exams, and more exams. Learning until old age, studying until old age, testing until old age, that is the true portrait. And that is still not enough. The person next to you has gotten a doctorate, come back from studying abroad, and a master's degree has become the lowest qualification. Can you afford not to take more exams?
4. High workload. If you are a veterinarian, you must know the breeding situation of clients in your area inside out (including what diseases they have had before, what drugs they have used, and so on). When farmers arrive (constantly listening, smiling, explaining), during consultations and necropsies there will endlessly be all kinds of strange questions. And there are no so-called holidays. If a farmer calls in the middle of the night, you still have to go. Moreover, to avoid disrupting their own normal schedules, farmers generally come very early or very late, or while you are eating, so your life is completely thrown into disorder. A driver under high load will have a car accident. What happens to a veterinarian under high load? Think about it yourself.
5. Low income. Compared with the minimum security level in developed areas, it may be even lower. Some earn only just over 500 a month after graduation, the result of 16 hard years of studying. Some may earn a bit more, but our input-to-output ratio is disproportionate. A blind man telling fortunes charges 10 yuan per session, a blind man, an illiterate! For one farm call, we have to put in time, travel fare, and energy. Every diagnosis I make draws on my 4 years of study and several years of clinical investment.
6. Low social evaluation. No further explanation needed, right? What can you say about a profession that ordinary people look down on? So you can see why there are so many bachelors in this industry! A pitiful industry.
7. High depression. Every day all you see are farmers, and most farmers who frequently have problems have a pile of tearful histories. You face them every day trembling with fear and extreme anxiety. Can you not be gloomy? Can you not have insomnia? Can you not get stomach ulcers?
8. Highly isolated and helpless. Do companies always help veterinarians? Wrong! If someone complains, without asking right or wrong they first deal 50 heavy blows. If customer satisfaction does not reach 95%, bonuses are deducted. Deduct! Deduct! Deduct!
9. High sense of helplessness. Do you think I do not take saving the health of livestock and poultry as my duty? If farmers have no money or do not pay, do you think I do not want to give them medicine? I love life, but I also have to survive. Do you think I do not want to cure sick livestock and poultry? I can only use medicine within a limited scope. Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice. Why should veterinarians bear the blame for the flaws in the veterinary system?
In summary, do not be a veterinarian. Those who curse veterinarians, if you have the ability, then you do it. Why are there still so many veterinarians? It is merely because life forces them to be! Since farmers and veterinarians are all brothers of the same class, and neither is better off than the other, then there should be less opposition and arguing. After all, they are two industries that depend on each other!
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Speaking the heartfelt words of being a veterinarian, but if I suffer, who suffers?
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Is your income low?
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This post was last edited by xueyoumi on 2009-12-2 22:14
What kind of veterinarians would be like what you describe? Are they some technical service staff selling feed or selling veterinary drugs?
1. High-risk profession. In recent years, the incidence of so-called zoonotic diseases has been rising, and veterinarians, being on the production frontline every day, face a very high chance of exposure. There have also been many cases of infection and death from clinical work in recent years, especially in large livestock.
2. High stress. In recent years, the chaos in veterinary drug management has meant that many veterinary drugs do not meet regulations. Veterinarians do not even know what they are using during administration. In clinical use, even if you throw yourself into it wholeheartedly, you may still fail. How can you not be trembling with fear?
3. High demands. Veterinary medicine is a rapidly developing discipline. If you do not want to be eliminated and do not want accidents to happen, you have no choice but to keep reading, reading, and reading more. In recent years, many national policies have targeted the veterinary industry, with endless exams, exams, and more exams. Learning until old age, studying until old age, testing until old age, that is the true portrait. And that is still not enough. The person next to you has gotten a doctorate, come back from studying abroad, and a master's degree has become the lowest qualification. Can you afford not to take more exams?
4. High workload. If you are a veterinarian, you must know the breeding situation of clients in your area inside out (including what diseases they have had before, what drugs they have used, and so on). When farmers arrive (constantly listening, smiling, explaining), during consultations and necropsies there will endlessly be all kinds of strange questions. And there are no so-called holidays. If a farmer calls in the middle of the night, you still have to go. Moreover, to avoid disrupting their own normal schedules, farmers generally come very early or very late, or while you are eating, so your life is completely thrown into disorder. A driver under high load will have a car accident. What happens to a veterinarian under high load? Think about it yourself.
5. Low income. Compared with the minimum security level in developed areas, it may be even lower. Some earn only just over 500 a month after graduation, the result of 16 hard years of studying. Some may earn a bit more, but our input-to-output ratio is disproportionate. A blind man telling fortunes charges 10 yuan per session, a blind man, an illiterate! For one farm call, we have to put in time, travel fare, and energy. Every diagnosis I make draws on my 4 years of study and several years of clinical investment.
6. Low social evaluation. No further explanation needed, right? What can you say about a profession that ordinary people look down on? So you can see why there are so many bachelors in this industry! A pitiful industry.
7. High depression. Every day all you see are farmers, and most farmers who frequently have problems have a pile of tearful histories. You face them every day trembling with fear and extreme anxiety. Can you not be gloomy? Can you not have insomnia? Can you not get stomach ulcers?
8. Highly isolated and helpless. Do companies always help veterinarians? Wrong! If someone complains, without asking right or wrong they first deal 50 heavy blows. If customer satisfaction does not reach 95%, bonuses are deducted. Deduct! Deduct! Deduct!
9. High sense of helplessness. Do you think I do not take saving the health of livestock and poultry as my duty? If farmers have no money or do not pay, do you think I do not want to give them medicine? I love life, but I also have to survive. Do you think I do not want to cure sick livestock and poultry? I can only use medicine within a limited scope. Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice. Why should veterinarians bear the blame for the flaws in the veterinary system?
In summary, do not be a veterinarian. Those who curse veterinarians, if you have the ability, then you do it. Why are there still so many veterinarians? It is merely because life forces them to be! Since farmers and veterinarians are all brothers of the same class, and neither is better off than the other, then there should be less opposition and arguing. After all, they are two industries that depend on each other!
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Speaking the heartfelt words of being a veterinarian, but if I suffer, who suffers?
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Is your income low?
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This post was last edited by xueyoumi on 2009-12-2 22:14
What kind of veterinarians would be like what you describe? Are they some technical service staff selling feed or selling veterinary drugs?