So you’re five years old and you love animals and grownups keeping asking you what you want to be when you grow up and you simply reply, “A vet!”.
Fast forward ten years and you’re in high school actually trying to make the decision as to what you want to do for the rest of your life once you have graduated. You still love being around animals and still think you would love to be a veterinarian so you volunteer at your local clinic (just to be sure before you get loans and spend most of your young adulthood studying). After a few days of volunteering you realize that you have more options than becoming a veterinarian to work with animals. You could be an assistant? Except you want to be a little more hands on with the animals and their medical treatment.
Finally you decide being a veterinary technician is what you were meant to do. You feel it is the perfect balance of people and pets for you. There you made the decision! Now just to decide which school you will attend to complete your program. No matter which one you choose you will be spending the next year and a half to two years studying your brains out. It may not seem fun or worth it at the time but the feeling you get when you receive your diploma and it says you are officially a veterinarian technician and can spend the rest of your working days helping animals and their owners live happy, healthy lives is an overwhelming feeling of joy, satisfaction and relief. After that wonderful feeling wears off you then start to feel an over whelming feeling of stress, anxiety and panic as you now realize it’s time to write the Veterinary Technician National Exam. The exam that allows you to practice anywhere in North America and puts an R, for registered, in front of your veterinary technician status.
Becoming a veterinarian technician was one of the best decisions I have made in life despite the rollercoaster of emotions that goes along with the whole process. I find it to be a very fulfilling and meaningful career and it is amazing to work beside so many people who all share the same passion; helping those who cannot help themselves. I am proud to say that I love going to work every day and that I do not mind coming in early or staying late. I know that there are a lot of people that cannot say the same thing.
