any of you going to vet or biology college?

Stay far away from both, fuck. Get a degree in computer science. Biology degree is dead end and you'll end up killing yourself, veterinarians end up killing themselves too.

>>2346185
>Get a degree in computer science.
Autism

>Biology degree is dead end

Not if you make connections, not everybody lacks social skills (or the desire to get them) like you, stay on /g/ or /r9k/.

Im a vet but i dont do clinic shit. Ama

>>2346420
What do you do then?

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>>2346202
>Cs degree
>Autism
Yikes

>>2346438
I work in two things food safety and animal welfare

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>>2346149

Vet student here. Aiming to go into mixed practice when I graduate with a focus on large farm animal whilst still doing companion animals. Just want to avoid horses- because fuck horses quite honestly.

Pick related, CKD cat I scanned a few months back.

>>2346469

Hah, didn't realise we had another vet. Howdy! Mind if I be nosy and ask what you do in regards to welfare? Take it you work in abattoirs?

>>2346520
Yep a lot of them. But in just one particular small european country

Sent my transcript to college wanna see what life science is all about see my options

>>2346185
Yes get a degree in the over-saturated CS so your job can be outsourced to Pajeet who will work for $2 an hour

>>2346420
>>2346520
Why aren't you guys ever in the threads asking for vets?

>>2346629
>Yes get a degree in the over-saturated CS so your job can be outsourced to Pajeet who will work for $2 an hour

It depends on the kind of comp sci you specialize but yes. There is an entire generation of CS grads out there and the job market will only get worse in that industry.

>>2346520
>Just want to avoid horses- because fuck horses quite honestly.

Ha! I'm curious, what is it about horses that makes vet care for them annoying/difficult?

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>>2346629

I do when I can, but I'm normally very busy with Uni/placements so time on here is very sporadic. Nine times out of ten as you guys already put it's a case of "take it to a vet".

>>2346637

They're 450kg +, unpredictable, moody and tempramental animals to work with. Add that to normally stuck-up owners who think they know everything. It's as the old addage states, you just don't stick your dick in crazy, or in my case don't stick a needle in crazy.

Plus, when you get into vet school you rapidly find out that horsey people could ride before they began to walk. Oh, and the fact that equine internships are essentially slave labour.

TLDR: I'm not a horsey enough person to want to risk my life daily treating them for not enough money.

>>2346524

Ahh, fair enough! I'm from the UK, and the BVA over here is having a heart attack over brexit. All our abattoir vets are non-UK-nationals, and there are very few UK-grads willing to work in the abattoir, so god knows what we're going to do when we leave the EU!

Interesting field however. We did a VPH practical at the beginning of the year assessing pig livers for ascaris. Guessing you see all sorts!

Do you guys get a lot of pregnant animals through? I only ask as our dissection tech team are moaning that they can't get hold of specimens anymore as our law has changed to penalise farmer's sending pregnant animals to slaughter. Any cool stories?

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>>2346185

Nah, I'd rather commit suicide doing what I love than work in an office indoors staring at a computer screen all day ta.

>>2346655
This. No regrets getting off that particular path early. Think I'd genuinely prefer eating radioactive waste for a living than any office work.

>>2346655
>>2346688
I have a good office job and I fucking cannot stand it. It is tedious fucking bullshit. I wish I could go back to school and choose a career path where I got to go outside.

Office work blows fucking ass.

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>>2346693

It's the huge reason I don't want to do companion animal medicine 100%. Being inside one clinic would drive me insane even if it would be extremely interesting and rewarding.

This is the first year I've not helped out with the lambing season as I've been on clinical placement. Really miss these guys!

>>2346693
Literally everything about it is designed to kill your soul. The lights, the monotony, the petty office politics.It's a living death. I just left and started again and I'm so glad I did.

graduating next year with an animal science/wildlife management degree

pumped to do whatever outside with animals

First vet of the thread here

>>2346637
They're ridiculously unpredictable. Like if you happen to give them the wrong kind of hay they can get colics (dunno if this is the right name in english) and die. It's frustrating when you're the healer.

>>2346648
I believe pregnant animals can't even go to the abbatoir. When mistakes are made in that area the whole carcass is rejected, i believe.
I'm from Portugal btw.
Yes in the UK things are a bit different. Your traditions are different. When this EU legislation came, it was made from professionals from all european countries but the UK never had the tradition of having a veterinarian checking carcasses for human consumption. All you had were these specialized technical people who knew how to recognize stuff like pus and ulcers and that was it.
Now a days you have the BRC which is quite demanding so I assumed you had vets going into this area but apparently not.
Here in Portugal the official authorities are i'd say quite demanding but mostly this is just compared with Spain. To the point where you see guys with the filthiest most horrible abbatoirs failing here but then opening an abbatoir in the other side of the border and then just selling that disgusting meat in our market. By themselves the national authorities aren't evil but they really don' care about helping the business which is though for the smaller guys who just own a small farm and want to sell their sheep and pig meat locally.
I also work with a lot of non abbatoir related stuff. Like seafood, fish, processed meat and pastery. I work in a consulting firm that goes all over the country helping these chaps. I deal with corrupt ugly people but also with nice small local businesses and even some cases of a small business going big and getting money thanks to good product quality.
Can't think of any particularly nice stories rn tho.

>>2347082

They used to go through our UK abattoirs quite frequently according to our dissection techs, but you are likely right that the entire carcass is rejected. I didn't enquire further at the time I'm afraid!

I'm afraid certainly thinking of my cohort I can think of very few, if any that would be willing to work in that area. There's a few that want to go work for the government and higher up with food safety, but certainly not at the ground level day to day checking of everything for slaughter. I certainly know that line of work isn't for me, I've worked quite extensively with laying birds and although I love working with the birds have ruled that line of work out due to the sheer amount of PM's they have to do. I'm afraid I just prefer my patients live most of the time.

I guess working in that line of work just isn't seen as 'the thing to do' opposed to working in first line/referral practice. I have to say, if the veterinary times over here is to be believed, our UK grads are pushing into specialisms far earlier too. Would you ever fancy the switch into practice?

>>2346696
>the petty office politics.
Oh god this. Costs me so much fucking time to deal with "colleagues" who can't take any criticism and fuck about all day. And the gossiping, oh, the poisonous gossiping.

>>2347108
Ok we're back and my post got deleted. Cool.
Here it's not exactly winning any awards for popularity either. But the food safety area is in some moderate expasion so some people are interested if not only because of the finantial possibilities.
I don't think I would ever fancy that, no. Like you, i started vet thinking i was going to end up doing regular small animal practice but as the years went by and i was exposed to more and more of it (basically 90% of the course is oriented to clinical practice) i ended up disiluded and disappointed. First i just don't have the stomach to deal with the people part of the job. Almost with certainty i can tell you most patients that come in that aren't just going to do routine exams or vaccines or whatever and when the animal has an actual problem, it's quite often the owner's fault. Cancer is something i saw a lot in my first years and usually it's close to terminal (no owner cares to do anything before that). It's usually down to either immediate euthanasia or the owner comes back a few months later with an animal in agony crying that he doesn't want the animal to die but he can't stand the suffering either. I'm just not cut out to do that sort of thung. You need to have a lot of stomach for this job and honestly i don't.
I don't mind seeing pus, ulcers, and other pathologies. But i hate the emotional part of the job.
In my more recent years i became infatuated with everything to do with turning animal parts into food. It's quite engenious sometimes to look at and to see how by changing what the animal eats you get different milk or meat. It's just so darn interesting sometimes. And the secondary things you have to watch out for, like hygiene and pest control, it really is like messing with an ecosystem. It's very different but also very interesting. That's what i like about what i do.
What about you?

Biology/chemistry double major. I've been doing undergraduate research for 3 years, but I do stuff with plants instead of animals. The place I live in has a lot more job and research opportunities than most and I'm pretty well-connected at this point, but the courses are a nightmare and I'm going to take longer to graduate than I thought.

>>2347290
>Biology
Nice
>chemistry
Fuck no
>plants instead of animals
How horrible

Thank god people like you exist, though

>>2347297
I started going for bio, but realized I only needed two extra classes for a chemistry degree, and it's better to be well-rounded for future employment. The plant thing also just kind of happened because the botany researcher who taught my entry-level bio classes really liked me and invited me to do research under him. Nothing really turned out the way I was expecting or planned, but it's working out pretty well on my end.