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lauren123

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I am after some advice really from everyone.
I always wanted to work with animals since been very young. I went to college did one year then i went onto another course for two years. However i started in the sept. I decided in the oct litrally one day i didnt want to work with animals ANYMORE. I had had enough of working my arse off for barely any reward. In the nov, i took my first large OD. My health went down from there. Though i did tge course as i wanted to get a qual.

After the course i would have been 19. I started work in the care sector for around 3 years. In the last year i had two jobs the other job was a no contact job for the nhs which i did full time for around 18 months to 2 years before getting a full time job. I have been here 3 years now. In health care a total of... around 8 years.

It seems to have happened with every job... I get bored after around 3-4 years.
The plan was to continue and qualify as a nurse. Though i have been helping my YO out with the liveries (long story) I am really enjoying been outside again and been with the animals. I have been looking at other ways i can improve my skills for example BHS. I looked on my old college website and they do s course for 3 years that would lead on to me being able to do a vet course. Which would be 5 years...
Thats 9 years.. I think i am just getting bored. I am very proud of the job i do though. Just... want to include or increase my skills snd knowledge with animals.
I have looked into other things. Like helping out at welfare charities or possible the RDA which would help. Though i just also find myself doing things impulsively as in i will have a fab idea then when it comes to it. I dont have the motivation
Argfhgg
 
I think what you are experiencing is quite common. Lots of people do get bored of their jobs and start looking for progression. Is there any development in your current job? Could you talk this over with a supervisor? Or is there the option to staying in your current job part time, and then having an animal job part time?
 
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Mary Poppins said:
I think what you are experiencing is quite common. Lots of people do get bored of their jobs and start looking for progression. Is there any development in your current job? Could you talk this over with a supervisor? Or is there the option to staying in your current job part time, and then having an animal job part time?
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That sounds like good advice.
 
I like Mary Poppins' idea.

To be brutally honest even if you can do the course & then get a placement on a course to be a qualified vet (& I wouldn't bet on getting a place, I believe it's still one of the hardest courses to get on so they really can take their pick of the most academically gifted students) I don't think you should. You have mental health problems & a history of overdoses, vet work is notoriously hard on mental health & has a high suicide rate. Can you honestly say that you could cope with a bad run of cases - animals being pts because they aren't wanted, ones not being brought to the vet until too late, owners not giving drugs/treatments properly so a pet doesn't make it, or the owners that try everything and are then broken when it fails - without becoming illyourself & maybe giving way to the temptation of the drugs that are available to vets? It's a job that needs a special combination of caring, compassion, empathy, detachment & hardness to do well & survive.

Work with animals by all means, but not as a vet.
 
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I'm learning that it's okay to not have everything planned out. Just think about the next couple of years. What do you really want? To further your education, change careers, progress further in your current job or stick with what you are doing and enjoy hobbies or part time work with animals on the side? Whatever your gut is telling you figure out a plan and go for it.
 
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Ale said:
I'm learning that it's okay to not have everything planned out. Just think about the next couple of years. What do you really want? To further your education, change careers, progress further in your current job or stick with what you are doing and enjoy hobbies or part time work with animals on the side? Whatever your gut is telling you figure out a plan and go for it.
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That is so true. Not everything has to be planned. There seems to be pressure to have this infamous "life plan" these days. For younger people I mean. Didn't exist when I was younger and if it did, I didn't take part in it!
 
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[QUOTE="carthorse, post: 3099900, member: You have mental health problems & a history of overdoses, vet work is notoriously hard on mental health & has a high suicide rate. Can you honestly say that you could cope with a bad run of cases -

Work with animals by all means, but not as a vet.[/QUOTE]
Hmm... you make a very good point cart horse
 
I'm glad you took it in the way it was intended Lauren rather than seeing it as an insult. The thing is I used to know a vet who did kill herself that way partly because she got too lost in her work, and I'd hate to know of another :'(
 
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