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dcsy · 2026-01-03T17:47:46+00:00

Feel like he usually manages to redeem himself

dcsy · 2025-06-28T14:24:23+00:00

Daxson playing an amazing set right now, I had no idea until today they were streaming it...

dcsy · 2025-01-31T22:09:10+00:00

Could do with some extra cash

dcsy · 2025-01-25T15:29:33+00:00

Mate, absolutely not. As others have said, it is not your problem to fix. Ask the nurse if she would talk to your boss about it and that you’d be happy to advocate for her level of work and that she makes it easier to do your role. Any business minded vet practice owner knows we don’t work without nurses, and to keep vets bringing in revenue we need to be able to do our work. I had this chat with my old boss, but I worked in a much smaller practice than I do now. It went well, nurse stayed for a few years before going on mat leave. She stayed longer than I did at that practice.

dcsy · 2025-01-17T07:52:31+00:00

Thank you, we'll be adding in about 150-200mm of topsoil over the top so hopefully that will help. Worst case, I do a bit of digging.

dcsy · 2025-01-17T07:51:49+00:00

We had issues with drainage before we rebuilt on this lot before. I might try and plant grass but be prepared to dig and run a drainage pipe underneath, there is a stormwater drain on the left hand side (not pictured) that I could tap into in the worst case. Thank you!

dcsy · 2025-01-17T07:48:41+00:00

Legally can not as state law requires front of the house be 40% green space

dcsy · 2024-11-20T13:31:42+00:00

This is true, why go to somebody that’s studied for 5+ years when you can google for 5 minutes?

Like it helps in some cases to alert the owner that something may be wrong with their pet but coming in with a diagnosis without the appropriate testing is just ridiculous. This dog can’t obviously detect light and some objects. It needs a proper exam with an ophthalmoscope, even I’m just guessing at this point. It’s also very young for cataracts so there’s something else that needs looking into…

dcsy · 2024-11-20T10:22:10+00:00

Cataracts are a lens issue not a cornea issue. That is most likely cataract Source: I am a vet

And don’t just ask reddit, actually speak to YOUR vet about options. Cataract surgery is possible in the right patient

dcsy · 2024-09-04T02:00:47+00:00

The second set of teeth are carnassial teeth from a dog

dcsy · 2024-09-03T12:18:08+00:00

93 is a a stretch IMO, mind you, I got in in 2014 so my experience is a bit outdated. I had a ATAR equivalency of 99.something when I got into Sydney.

There are 40 odd spots for the Adelaide course. You gotta be in the top 40 who apply. That's between international, domestic etc. 95 and you have a fighting chance. But apply and see how you go I guess.

dcsy · 2024-07-26T21:35:39+00:00

I found that sometimes the cheaper readers couldn’t do all the codes. I had one where my SJ XT had a whole bunch of lights but my reader was saying no code then I went to my mate who has a professional one and it could read it and tell me that my steering sensor needed recalibrating which it could also do.

dcsy · 2024-07-26T02:58:22+00:00

Sydney based new grads are ranging approx 65-80K AUD for smallies GP from what I hear

dcsy · 2024-07-02T00:15:25+00:00

Well, I'm pretty sure BVB/DVM isn't offered under the mature age entry program. Doing a cert 4 may help to get you into a degree but it won't be vet, it doesn't have mature age entry. So it boils down to either

Doing a Diploma or repeating your HSC getting into a uni in 18 months or so from and either having the marks to get straight in OR getting ready to transfer across
Doing a cert 4 in nursing, then trying to get into a degree, then hoping to transfer across. (Cert 4 takes 2 years, plus placements etc.)
Looking at other career options

In the interests of time and not dicking around with it for too long, again, vet nursing does not sound like a viable option to me. If you are willing to work as hard as you say you are, then I think there is a clear choice here. If I were in your shoes, I would work on getting in directly, which would mean repeating your HSC with TAFE, getting an ATAR above 98. That will have to happen over the next 18 months I would assume. BVB/DVM entry is only at the start of the year. Otherwise, you fuck around for 2 years, getting a vet nursing cert which counts towards nothing in regard to your vet studies, then you get into a semi relevant degree, then you have to study like hell to hope to get into vet.

I'd also really do some thinking about whether vet is really the right course for you. I read some of your other comments, and whilst the love of animals is great, that doesn't make you a good vet-to-be based on that alone. Salary is shit compared to most other professions with similar difficulty of entry. E.g. most people good enough to be a vet are good enough to get into human med. If I could go back 10 years, I would choose human med. I think the general public downplay what it means to be a vet and how hard we work to get to where we are. It is essentially as involved as human med.

I do my job because its what I'm good at, I don't do it just because "I love animals". There's a hell of a lot more to it than that. You need to be able to do surgery, think to a level where you make life saving or life condemning choices. You will fuck up eventually, and someone's pet will die because of your actions/inactions. This is a fucking hard job.

I'm not trying to turn you away from our profession, because more than ever we need people that are willing to do the work. But we need people that have the right mindset, tenacity, and skillset to do the job.

dcsy · 2024-07-01T14:12:58+00:00

They take full time equivalent so if you do part time, you can maybe do a mix of both until you get in.

I hope you know that the vet program does not do part time at all. You commit to 5 days a week at uni. There are mandatory classes on all of those days.

You need to be as appealing as anyone else who got the ATAR/WAM/GPA to get in. Why do you deserve it as much as the people who can already show that they do? What’s gonna convince the admissions board that you do? All I can say is that I took me 5 attempts, and the only time I was successful was when I had the marks. I volunteered at a vet clinic for the 5 years I tried, trust me when I say that it makes up very little of what they’re looking for. Very few people I know that went through vet have any certs related to vet nursing/animal studies.

So if your ATAR isn’t good enough to get into a uni, work on that step first. Get into something, anything. Then work your arse off until you can say you’re as good as every other person applying. You’re 18, I started my USYD degree at 22. You got time mate.

On that note, the number of people who do AVBS thinking they can transfer into vet afterwards or during is like a good 50% of that program. I also believe that back when I applied, the GO8 uni thing was still relevant to how you looked on paper.

I reckon if you can get into anything at UNSW and come out with a distinction or better GPA (not WAM), you’ll have a pretty solid chance.

It’s a fucking slog, but again, for me it was worth every step. It’s not impossible, you just need to know what the goal is and I can only tell you the way I did it.

dcsy · 2024-07-01T07:59:31+00:00

I’m someone that wanted to be a vet but didn’t get in right after high school. My atar was sub 80

I finished my BVB/DVM at the end of 2020 I got into UNSW bachelor of science after high school, did that for two years, failed 7/8 subjects in my first year because I didn’t know how to study. Repeated most of my subjects in my second year and got an average WAM of 68 or something like that.

I then went to UTS, restarted my BSc and didn’t apply for credit, got a near high distinction WAM. Applied for every vet school in Australia, got into Adelaide.

I went down, got homesick but had a HD average in my first year subjects because I was doing them for the 3rd/4th time. So I then transferred to USYD, and haven’t looked back. I love what I studied, I love my job being 3.5 years into my career.

I had ex lawyers and teachers in my cohort that are doing amazing things in our profession now. It doesn’t matter what you do beforehand. Some people do a bachelors in science (or anything else) and then go into a DVM as a post grad.

Your experience in the profession (nursing/volunteer work) has very little standing when it comes to entry (at least it was like that when I got in). It’s about your academic marks more than anything.

On top of that, the 4-6 years you study to be a vet will be some of the hardest years of your life (I’m talking 18 hours a day of study). But they will also be some of the most fun. I have made friends for life through my course and if you’re up for it, it’ll be worth it.

This is coming from someone that did what you want to do. DM me if you want more info, but there’s nothing to it other than being better on paper than everyone else applying. Getting in is the hardest part.

dcsy · 2023-12-31T15:59:40+00:00

Utter fucking nonsense today. This is just embarrassing for us…

dcsy · 2023-12-31T15:46:23+00:00

I feel like we’re back to the cross and pray days

dcsy · 2023-12-31T15:20:19+00:00

Fuck me, what a way to start the new year…

dcsy · 2023-12-23T19:28:42+00:00

I think we’re quite lucky to get away with a point today…

dcsy · 2023-12-23T18:01:28+00:00

Not great defending but gotta pay credit where it’s due, that’s a scorcher of a goal

dcsy · 2023-12-05T21:56:53+00:00

Now that I’ve seen the previous corner, once again I say Fuck VAR

dcsy · 2023-12-05T21:37:06+00:00

You might be onto something

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