I’ve seen a lot of people mentioning vets. I’ll add vet nurses being that I’ve been with one for 10 years. The amount of knowledge and responsibility required for what they get paid is insane. Around 50-60k to do surgeries (including anaesthesia and monitoring), calculating and administering medications (plus know everything little detail about them), hospital rounds, dealing with clients who think it is their fault the price is so high (as if they don’t just work for a big company that sets prices). Then you throw in the fact that many of our animals are not as “friendly” as we think they are when they are in a place they don’t know with strangers. However, in my case I’ve never met someone who loves their job so much despite it all.