the journal this week

Daughter started in vet nursing on Monday in dkit. 30 in class 29 female 1 male. Points went up 35 this year for this course while ucd went down. Only 2 local- well from louth- on the course. 1 from kerry
 
TAFKAT said:
A vet of my acquaintance once told me that if his daughter told him she wanted to be either a vet or a nun he would tell her to be a nun. The number of female vets who pack it in relatively quickly is massive, and he said by far and away the biggest reason is abuse from farmers. If he got a call to say an animal he was treating had died, and it was all his fault, and he was the most useless f#cker under God's creation, as had often happened in his career, it would be water off a duck's back to him but a girl would be far more likely to take these things to heart.
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Didnt think vets would get abuse from farmers for animals dying, but now as you say it, its probably a reality
 
TAFKAT said:
A vet of my acquaintance once told me that if his daughter told him she wanted to be either a vet or a nun he would tell her to be a nun. The number of female vets who pack it in relatively quickly is massive, and he said by far and away the biggest reason is abuse from farmers. If he got a call to say an animal he was treating had died, and it was all his fault, and he was the most useless f#cker under God's creation, as had often happened in his career, it would be water off a duck's back to him but a girl would be far more likely to take these things to heart.
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Souldnt have to listen to that shyte. Its a tough enough job.
 
It can also be fairly daunting work done in sometimes awful conditions.

Train like a doctor but live on the road and deal with unsocial hours and working conditions for decent but not spectacular money. You really would have to love the game to stay at it
 
Daughter did work experience in local vets last year, he really showed her the crap side of working outside and the weather was bad. She then did a day or 2 indoors. The people there were lovely and she enjoyed it.
 
TAFKAT said:
A vet of my acquaintance once told me that if his daughter told him she wanted to be either a vet or a nun he would tell her to be a nun. The number of female vets who pack it in relatively quickly is massive, and he said by far and away the biggest reason is abuse from farmers. If he got a call to say an animal he was treating had died, and it was all his fault, and he was the most useless f#cker under God's creation, as had often happened in his career, it would be water off a duck's back to him but a girl would be far more likely to take these things to heart.
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Local vet here said the same . Advised his daughter to be a dentist rather than a vet and he owning a vet practice .
 
2 newly qualified German ladies came to this part of the world for large animal experience with the practice owner. ( A James Herriot type) A few years later they took over the practice.
30 years on, The two ladies are still working, both married with families. The practice has grown to 7 all female vets German, Austrian, Spanish and one Irish. Doing lots of large animals and lots of cats/dogs etc.
 
mixed fleet said:
2 newly qualified German ladies came to this part of the world for large animal experience with the practice owner. ( A James Herriot type) A few years later they took over the practice.
30 years on, The two ladies are still working, both married with families. The practice has grown to 7 all female vets German, Austrian, Spanish and one Irish. Doing lots of large animals and lots of cats/dogs etc.
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we do give padraig a good slagging that he's the one wearing the skirt in the house
 
mixed fleet said:
2 newly qualified German ladies came to this part of the world for large animal experience with the practice owner. ( A James Herriot type) A few years later they took over the practice.
30 years on, The two ladies are still working, both married with families. The practice has grown to 7 all female vets German, Austrian, Spanish and one Irish. Doing lots of large animals and lots of cats/dogs etc.
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Indeed, nobody is disputing the fact there are lots and lots of very good female vets out there, just not nearly as many as the number who qualify unfortunately.
 
mixed fleet said:
It is a tough job, you would really have to have a "gra" for it. Very easy to get injured at it. These ladies are well organised and everyone gets their time off.
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am I right in saying there is 10 vets between the 2 practices there now,
Nixer, Brian and John would be between the parent practice and up there
 
Daughter was saying they put up a list of practices for work experience . The ones with yellow lines through them were to be avoided at all costs. She's going to our vets, no yellow line through them thankfully
 
The buying up of vet practice`s by investment fund`s is the latest thing around here . Practice here was been sold but deal fell through last minute .
 
The brother is a vet with his own practice down in Waterford doing large and small animals.

Much more money and far less hassle in the small animal clinic and in factory work, but he does the large animal still as was a big part of the practise he bought over years back, and as it was where he started, he feels a responsibility to continue it.

Most of the customers are decent, particularly the smaller lads but a few of the bigger lads break his heart not paying bills and constantly arguing over the rates despite them being well known in advance. The same lads are also the most demanding and ignorant to deal with. They are also the ones that would be poor mouthing, saying they can’t settle annual bills and with yards full of new machinery. It pisses him right off, especially when he’s out in the middle of the night and missing weekend family events.

He says a lot of the newer graduates, both male and female, don’t want the hassle and hardship of large animal practices, and it’s hard to get good vets that he can depend on into the practice. It’s probably symptomatic of modern society as much as anything else.

He would be the first to admit that they are well paid, but he’s only in his mid forties and is broke up from it (badly broken hand and arm in the past from cattle with early onset arthritis as a result) despite being a big strong lump of a man, and looks far older than his age for it.
 
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