I am frusterated!

[168135]

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I can't get volunteer experience in my home town. Back in December, I passed in a resume to a vet clinic and they told me that they would let me come in during my spring break. I spent the last two monthes calling and leaving messages because the doctor was either not in or busy, and here it is, day 2 of my spring break with still no word from the doctor.

I am job-shadowing for four hours tomorrow night at my old clinic. The agriculture college has the same break as us... so two of the students who go there are volunteering this week, so there is no room for me. If they can barely accommodate me this week, I can bet you a trillion dollars that they can barely accommodate me this summer.

I have relatives that live in Ontario. They are both in the army and they just got transferred, so they are going to be spending their summer moving.

If I could find somewhere to live, I might have a volunteer job this summer in the city where I go to university... I could stay behind and take some summer courses, but I'm scared that it will cost me a crazy amount of money.

I love what I am doing, but having it rubbed in my face that everyone but me is getting experience is really really bothering me. I am seriously considering applying to get in the vet tech program... I will earn a ton of experience doing that. I'm not complete when I am not working with animals... I'm even having nightmares about it. I had a dream where I decided to do a semester at the agriculture college because I could not get experience anywhere else!

I absolutely can't survive the entire summer with NOTHING. I have this crazy list of stuff that I could do, but it is impossible in one way or another.

Any words of advice? I just need something to keep me smiling.

 

[wi girl]

Take a deep breath. You sound very very dedicated to working with animals, I'm SURE you will find something. You've had some roadblocks -- but this is exactly the "overcoming obstacles" crap (and I say it that was because it is crappy and frustrating) that you can write about in your PS. If you've already applied (and hopefully will be accepted) maybe take some time to try something else. I know you said you're not complete w/o working with animals, but maybe in a different sphere than the veterinary world.
If you'll apply for 08-09, then its something good to write about, and explain it in your PS. And try like hell to go somewhere else. Maybe a farmer, or something non-SA clinic?

Best of luck!!

 

[lailanni]

I thought you were meeting with a doctor who is going to be opening up a new clinic? How'd that go?

 

[msmrtrthnyllb]

Move to Florida. We can put you to work.

 

[david594]

I know your in canada, but is the 2 year pre-health track still kind of the norm there before applying to vet school?

 

[168135]

I thought you were meeting with a doctor who is going to be opening up a new clinic? How'd that go?

I'll be meeting with her after the break. Her clinic opens in May, and I go home at the end of April, and if I go home, I have nothing. If it is not too expensive, I'm allowed to take a few summer courses and stay for six weeks. I'll be there for her opening and I'll have someplace to volunteer this summer. I can take organic chemistry, re-take chem 121 because I got a pretty sucky grade in it, and start on my minor. I would love to go home, but I gotta do what I gotta do I guess. I just can't go all summer without doing any volunteer work. It would drive me batty.

The pre-vet program is designed so that you can get all of your vet school pre-requisits done in two years. If you decide to not apply or not go to vet school, after four years you get your BSc in Animal Sciences. I'm getting my bachelor of science and I can get my pre-requisits in two years too. I can take longer if I want, but two years is the minimum.