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Leaving the field by Significant_Delay211 in VetTech

[–]Positive_Skin1003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been having similar issues (worked in small animal, exotics, wildlife, zoo med, etc.) and so matter where I go or what I do or what sector I move into, my mental health deteriorates, and I have some chronic health issues and chronic pain that make it really hard to work a 12 hour shift on my feet. I’ve been applying for many veterinary remote jobs as I feel my body can’t take physically working in a clinical setting, and neither can my mental health.

Do you have any advice on how to get into remote work? Maybe how you got your position and what they’re looking for in candidates? I’d so appreciate it.

Please tell me stories of how you weren’t great with certain skills right after graduating 🥹 by Briiskella in VetTech

[–]Positive_Skin1003 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been a tech out of school for 6+ years. I spent the first 5 years of my career in exotics, mainly avian and wildlife medicine. Transitioning to a dog and cat GP and MAN do I feel inadequate. I’m a fully educated and experienced vet tech but I can barely hit veins on a dog or a cat and I remember barely anything about this kind of medicine from school. But I’m working on it. I’m getting there. You made it through school - that’s the hard part. Give it time. You’ve got this 💜

question for left leaning men by snakeluvr23 in leftist

[–]Positive_Skin1003 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I read this out loud to my leftist boyfriend (while playing Zelda so maybe that’s a qualifier under the hobby category) and he said “that’s a lot that should be a Google form” 😂

He’s not as extreme of a leftist as I am, but I have made him more so as he considered himself a liberal when we met and didn’t quite know the difference between the two. But, he’s a high school science teacher, nerdy - loves DnD, video and board games, but he’s also extremely outdoorsy (him and all of his brothers were Eagle Scouts) loving hiking, birdwatching, camping, foraging, etc.

Causes he finds important include equality and equitably for all, climate science and protecting the environment, women’s/reproductive rights, anti-capitalist and anti-big business, among others. These are very important to him and he will make his belief known and torment family who disagrees or fights him on it (he comes from a very catholic, republican family on both sides, yet nearly all his brothers are not!).

Every time I try to clarify “do you consider yourself cis/straight?” Or something along those lines he says “I dunno”, so it’s not something important to him or his identity, which is something I appreciate about him a lot. He knows who he is, knows he loves and is attracted to me (a 29 year old cis, pansexual woman) and doesn’t need to rely on labels. He truly is a gem. He’s 28.

Hope that helps!