Veterinarian jobs with best work hours / vacation time?

[KCgophervet]

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[battie]

No, veterinary medicine is a profession, and within that profession, we each have a job. The job may be good or bad, and may be to your liking or not, but it's still one job within the profession. If it's not to your liking for whatever reason (bad boss, competitive coworkers, crazy clients, annoying policies) then you can try to change jobs, but don't confuse a job with the profession. Blaming a bad work environment for wanting to do a "sub-par" job is a cop-out. You have to do the best you can with what you've got - and what you have might be a lousy work situation, until you can manage to change it.

I responding to JHerriot14's statement that vet med (more specifically being a veterinarian) isn't a 9-5 job. So I should have been more specific as to the fact that various aspects of vet med are jobs. Being a veterinarian is a job. As some have stated in this thread, there are actually positions that are pretty close to 9-5.

I never said "wanting to do a 'sub-par' job". I said, "It is these negative, hostile work environments that breed bad attitudes and result in subpar medicine being practiced." In no way did I implicate anyone "wanting" to do a sub-par job. I was saying that the negative, hostile work environments result in people reaching the negatives of vet med (compassion fatigue, etc) more quickly (hence the bad attitudes) that result in people not doing as well as they would in a more positive environment (practicing sub-par medicine). Again, no where did I say anyone wants to do a sub-par job. Again, I was saying that the environment results in sub-par work being done. Whether that is because the employee is overworked or suffering from compassion fatigue or what have you, it stems from a negative environment. That can possibly be the best that person can do under that environment, and I wouldn't consider that a cop-out.

 

[LetItSnow]

NOT TOMAHTOE

You're a tomahtoe.

(I would have responded to @JHerriot14 but I think everyone else pretty much covered the bases of that particular asinine post. Man. It was just plain mean-spirited.)