Loneliness is one of the highest.
You spend your day, taking care of precious lives, listening to your clients' problems, helping them solve them (even when they're not related directly to their pet), listening to several complaints (sometimes pretty stupid ones) always with a happy face, a smile...
What about the days you no longer feel like smiling? You still do...
It gets to a point that when a pet urinates in your office for the 1 thousandth time after you've cleaned everything up and disinfected everything that it starts getting a little too much! But you still smile and tell the owner, 'oh, it happens...' when you really feel like shouting in their face 'HOW ABOUT WALKING YOUR PET BEFORE YOUR APPOINTMENT???? HE WON'T BE SO AGITATED AND I WON'T NEED TO SPEND MY TIME CLEANING HIS POOP OR/AND PEE!!!
I should explain...
Imagine having your own practice, something you've always dreamed of but all bills are so high, you can't hire anyone, what's the result?
Day in and day out of cleaning, feeding, treating, diagnosing, making decisions, listening to people whining and moaning and complaining about your prices when you know they're the lowest in the vicinity and barely cover your bills...doing surgery, bathing and grooming...the list is endless and I'm not even going into all the paperwork that needs to be done on a daily basis...
Waking up early, arriving home late...
Loneliness....
This is what vets should be doing:
This is what it should feel like everyday:
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This is how it feels like most days:
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