Let's hear it for (and from) Vet Techs!
Jul. 2nd, 2008 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanA new lj friend asked me what it was like to be a vet tech. An understandable mistake, since I post about working in an animal hospital. But I've been working alongside vet techs for almost a year now, and I've got some opinions on what it's like.
Being a vet tech looks to me like doing nearly all the work while the vet gets nearly all the credit.
They have to know ten thousand technical skills, of which the most important is reading the vet's mind. Seriously. These women (I have yet to meet a male vet tech--unlessg_weir was one) have an uncanny ability to know what the vet wants, often before the vet does. They also are asked to work on several vital and complicated tasks at the same time, and then the vet yells at them to do something else, so they do that too.
It goes without saying that they don't get paid nearly enough for what they do. But they must love it, because we keep fielding vet tech students doing rotations.
But I know that there are a few vet techs reading this, as well. I'd love to hear from you: What's it like being a vet tech?
Being a vet tech looks to me like doing nearly all the work while the vet gets nearly all the credit.
They have to know ten thousand technical skills, of which the most important is reading the vet's mind. Seriously. These women (I have yet to meet a male vet tech--unless
g_weir was one) have an uncanny ability to know what the vet wants, often before the vet does. They also are asked to work on several vital and complicated tasks at the same time, and then the vet yells at them to do something else, so they do that too.It goes without saying that they don't get paid nearly enough for what they do. But they must love it, because we keep fielding vet tech students doing rotations.
But I know that there are a few vet techs reading this, as well. I'd love to hear from you: What's it like being a vet tech?
