Haha. You pitchforkers are just gonna have to cackle gleefully as you melt some ice cubes who have declared you poor excuses for veterinarians since you waste all your time answering poorly worded questions for those in need on a forum.
I mean, we're all joking around, but I will say (and I've pretty much said parts of this before): it's always the most challenging wherever you're at. As a pre-vet you think it's the hardest thing in the world. Then admissions are just the Worst Thing Ever. Then as a vet student - omg, this is even tougher. Then real life practicing medicine - just discouraging as all hell on way too many days. Good days, but too many "wow, people suck" days. And school starts to look not so bad. And too many things vying for your attention. And too many people wanting volunteer help from you and they magically never really seem to be grateful - whether it's that long-lost friend on Facebook who suddenly has a question and then ignores your advice and doesn't thank you, to the vet student who asks to shadow, who you let shadow, who you give your teaching time to, who then vanishes without so much as a "thx for your time!"
Which is a long, convoluted way of saying: I find it harder and harder to find a reason to answer pre-vet and vet-student questions. Too high a percentage of "yeah well, that's, just, like, just your opinion, man" or "you don't know MY story" or other special snowflake type of responses. I don't expect to be put on a pedestal or anything, and I sure as hell am not right all the time, but ... if you ask a question that I have a better perspective on than you do, I do expect you to at least consider my reply seriously and respectfully. And I'm not impressed with the percentage of pre-vets who do that. Lots of super amazing pre-vets who do, but a surprising number of people who make me think Internet anonymity is the worst thing that ever happened.
It <really> struck me when I was doing interviews last year. Was my first year interviewing, and I sorta expected that it would be a pile of generally good candidates. Like, not a ton of extremes. I thought there'd be some amazing candidates, and then a pile of adequate candidates. What I found out was that there are an astonishing number of people that you interview and you're like "omg, no, please go find another career" and you wonder how they got to the interview table.
Anyway. Rambling. Night. Gotta go make sushi.