My career

I´m studying veterinary since 2006 and the reason to choose this career is very simple, when I was little I had a neighbour who studied veterinary and I admire her so I started to ask her about what she did in the university and what was the career about. I also started to investigate about the working area and I realized that it has many alternatives, so it become in an interesting option to study. After my results in the PSU I was sure of what I wanted, but my parents (specially my father) believed that maybe I could do something better ( in economic terms, such as medicine), however I had already made my decision, so they couldn´t change my mind. Through the years they have noticed that this is what I like and want, so they are happy too.

Veterinary has many options to work once you have finished university, such as production(where you can find: bovine, ovine, piggs, etc), public health, clinic (for domestic animals, like dogs, cats, exotic ones, etc), investigation and so one. This areas can also be mixed to help society, for example when you talk about public health you must consider investigation and clinic konwledgement , because you must offer a complete solution (not only in epidemilogic aspects, but also prevention, control and treatment of diseases).

When I think about my needs in my professional future I realized that the university brings most of theoric tools, but practice must be done by myself, because it`s never enough, specially if there are 50 classmates trying to do the same with just a few animals and a few teachers in a reduced place. It`s also very important to count with contacts ( I mean people who is already working and can help me to find a job), and economical resources if you want to keep on studies (like a major or something like that).

I don`t have a favourite subject, I like the area of Public Health, but the subject is to general and theoric, I believe that to decide you need to know, not by someone telling you what is like, but by your own experience, so I`m looking for some practice ralted to this, so I`ll know if it`s definitely what I want to do in the future.