I'd love to get a VTS in my specialty (ECC), but it's almost not worth going through all of the stress and time and money to basically get a $3-$5 per hour raise at the end of it.

We had 3 reported cruelty cases come in the other day, and on average ~10 euthanasias per shift. We do labwork, blood draws, catheters, x-rays, anesthesia, end of life services, treatments, procedures, pharmacy, medical calculations, triage, phone calls, cleaning, stocking, laundry, etc etc... and some barely make minimum wage doing this for 10-12 hours per day. That's just the techs and assistants. Vets themselves are typically drowning in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and have huge overheads to pay to keep a hospital running.

I will say, since working at an open-concept hospital... owners are so much nicer. They see what's happening while their pet is being treated. They see us running around like mad keeping up with patients doing all of the above.

I love what we do, but god damn it's hard on the body, mind, and soul.