Career change

[Lindsey]

Thanks! It really is taking a gamble with your life, isn't it? And I'm not good with gambling. I like everything to be planned.
To even be eligible for acceptance into the program, you need to have 6 weeks' worth of documented volunteer experience at a vet clinic at the time you apply. Sooo that's another hurdle. I'd need to take 6 weeks off work, so a leave of absence with NO PAY, just to even apply for the program, and possibly not even get accepted!
I'm not too worried about the surgery part... well maybe a bit. In high school whenever we had to dissect animals, I never wanted to because my friends were all "EWWWW!!!" and I kind of just went along with them... but then I took a biology class in my first year of university and it was really really interesting. I loved dissecting fish, crayfish, pigs... It was just really cool to see what goes on inside bodies. Is that kind of sick? lol... at the same time I can't stand to have blood drawn from myself! So I don't know how well it would go.
The one thing I would definitely have trouble going through is that in the last semester of this course, everyone has to tour the meat processing plant. Everything from pigs and cattle being brought in, killed, and cut up... you have to watch and understand it all. I would cry for sure, and probably have nightmares.
I would really like to be a part of a rescue, but my landlord says no more pets other than Layla. There are a couple of dogs in the local rescue that are needing surgeries and special care, so I think I am going to donate money to them. The thing about volunteering at the SPCA is that I don't think I could deal well with perfectly good and healthy pets needing to be put down.