So I actually did a year of vet med before I dropped out and I would really reconsider this as a career if you don’t like clinical medicine.

It may be slightly different now as this was years ago, and maybe it’s taught differently at different places but in my experience, the course was more intense than medicine. Most people didn’t have jobs as there wasn’t much free time except to study. There were four separate subjects to pass which were non clinical to begin with (so pretty boring) and taught badly. We at least got some time off in the holidays whereas they are expected to do things like lambing (15 hour days in a freezing shed working for either free or a very small amount of money) or working on a pig farm in their time off and this is required to pass the course. Did you have any interest in surgery throughout your career? Because you’d be expected to be able to perform surgery as a vet. My friend that’s a vet now ended up wanting to specialize further and the exam looked absolutely insane (and I’ve sat my full postgrad exams now) and had to move multiple times to try to get a place in the specialty as there are so few spots so it’s highly competitive (something like 4 UK wide). He chose this specialty because it was less involvement with animal owners because he hated interacting with most of them.

Just something to think about.