Dont be jealous - it’s not an actual break 🙃 we don’t have online synch sessions, but all our classes still gave us asynchronous work (some even added MORE to make up for missing the live synch session). When admin was asked about it they told us our 4 days are “synch time breaks” and not actual breaks. 🥲
Ugh that sounds worse! Sorry
I have these same feelings and frustrations too even with having graduated vet school. The debt is inescapable, the pay isn't great, staffing is always lacking, support is kind of there sometimes but often not. I'll never save up enough to pay off the interest. Hoping for PSLF... but that's always murky. I'm in job number 4 since graduation and I've not been out for 5 years yet. I think I've realized the problem isn't a specific job it is the industry.. not enough staff, not wanting or able to hire more, huge influx in work from covid that no one anticipated, people running how thinks work without working those things themselves. And it is across the vet industry. But I do believe it isn't just us, it is everywhere because the big companies, especially the government, know they can get away with doing and providing the bare minimum. The employees feel bad and usually have the work ethic they lack, so employees pick up the pieces and the cycle keeps repeating.
I don’t want to encourage you to take on more debt since you’re already stressed about what you’ve got. But your dismissal is not necessarily a bar to entry into a graduate program. I left law school and a PhD program on less-than-stellar terms and still got into vet school. So if you find a field that inspires passion in you, don’t rule it out because you’re worried you won’t get in to a grad program.
I don’t know if relocation would interest you, but if it would help perspective any to work in a different area, I think my county where I’m moving to might be in some need of public health folks. I also know an MPH that works in public health for a neighboring county and seems to enjoy it. They seemed to have no issues changing jobs in the middle of a pandemic where a lot of government jobs are experiencing hiring freezes (though it’s obvious why lol) I can put you in touch with them.
How so? Anything we can help with for advice or just listening to rant?
My PM is always open. Not sure if I have the right knowledge or anything, but always willing to listen and offer support one way or another!
PM also open here if you ever need
I sympathize. I always find it depressing. Like online dating: the creeps always want a date, the one you thought you wanted turns out to be toxic, and finally you just settle for messaging anything that moves in the hope of finding a diamond in the rough. Somehow it all works out though.
Can't decide whether to "haha" or "sad"
Amazons are really the worst. I'm pretty fond of macaws but I don't trust the smaller parrots at all
I don't trust birds period. When I was still a tech we had this horrible blue and gold macaw come in frequently. I'd refuse to hold that jerk, he was bad.
I think dewelpro is much better than seresto.
Are you a veterinarian? Or a vet student?
I’m not sure why you created an account to debate a 2 year old post but whatever.
I've been on a baking binge lately, would a cookie care package help you to feel better at all?
It’s a reasonable thing to do and I have done it. Sending hugs
Get the Robokiller app! It costs a little money but it's cut the number of spam calls that I get down to almost nothing.
^^^^^second this!!! I used to get constant spam calls from Poland/Austria/etc. and they were somehow rigged to bypass do not disturb on my phone so it would wake me up at 2 AM. Once I started using nomorobo those stopped! I still get the occasional spam call from my hometown but the majority get blocked
The number calling for me to schedule my covid vaccine was listed as likely spam in my phone...
Yeah my phone decided that my student loan servicer is spam (likely lots of people maliciously/erroneously reporting them) and so I had been ignoring them for more than a year until one day I was going to tell them off and low and behold they were just trying to verify an address hahah
See I dont understand what's so hard that they cant leave a message
I think it's a financial privacy law that until they verify it's you they cant reveal their business?
But they could be like this is x financial please give us a call back at x.
I wonder if there's a local business or something that's super similar to your phone number. Like XXX-XXX-XX12 versus XXX-XXX-XX21 for instance.
Lol I wish it was that simple! One was someone for a dr appt. Another was surprisingly my old high school so when I listened to the message I was very confused at the start til they said who they were looking for😅
My old home phone number was -85 and Starbucks was -58. We didn’t get a bunch of calls for people wanting Starbucks (because who calls Starbucks?) but one of my friends in elementary or middle school deeeefinitely accidentally called Starbucks once and asked for me
Do you mean return calls, or answer them, or both?
I dont return calls unless they leave me a message and I dont answer them unless they leave me a message then I call them back if need be
I keep having some dread that work week starts back up for me tomorrow. Was very rough last one, and I am still out of sorts. My house is in serious need of cleaning, but I wash just enough laundry to get through work and keep the litter box clean.
