VETERINARIAN

SPECIFIC TASKS:

• A vets job is to diagnose, prevent, and treat a variety of animal illnesses and diseases

JOB ENVIRONMENT:

• Works in private clinics or animal hospitals
• Vets that treat big animals work outside
• Vets that work with smaller animals work inside

WORKING HOURS/CONDITIONS:

• Vets have to work long hours
• One third of full time spending 50 or more hours on the job
• There could also be unexpected calls during day, afternoon, night, and middle of the night
• Need a bachelors degree

SALARY:

• Normally it would be $3,900 to exp. $12,000 a month
• $101,040 a year
• Depends on what college you go to and what location you end up going to

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

• Have to have a doctorate of veterinary medicine (DUM) degree is required
• Must have 3 years of pre-vet
• Courses are physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, genetics, and statistics

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Have to like animals
• Get along with all different kinds of animals
• Have patients & take things seriously when it comes to surgery/procedure

DISADVANTAGES:

• People put their hope and trust into you with their animals
• If their animal/animals die you have to deal with them & you might not know how they're going to react
• You can get called in the middle of the night

ADVANTAGES:

• If you have your own animals and they get sick or hurt you will know how to fix/deal with them
• You will know how to make animals feel better professionally and properly

CITED PAGE:

• Google images
• Yahoo answers
• http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Career/26/Veterinarian
• http://www.foothill.edu/internships/documents/Veterinarian.pdf

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