so. i have changed my mind.
ladies and gentlemen, i've changed my mind about what i want to do with my life. as you may or may not know, i have wanted to be a vet for quite awhile now. i've completed my first year as a pre-vet major, and have a new dream job. i would still love to be a vet, but i'd love this more, although it's quite a bit more farfetched.
a zoo keeper/zoology vet, especially for the big cats.
oh jacquie, you say, you're crazy. i disagree. i met someone who was a zookeeper for the big cats, and it sounded amazing. i can continue on the same path i've started in terms of college, but i don't have to worry about getting into vet school (unless i go for the vet at a zoo gig). plus,
SEE! that could be me! i'd get to bottle feed babies! EEEEEEE
so anyway, now i'm trying to decide if i should apply for this nonpaid internship at the Portland zoo so I can do it while i'm at school but it'd take so much of my free time, and i probably wouldn't be able to get an on campus job, ie being a desk worker like i wanted to do, so i'd have ZERO money all the time...but it'd be worth it cuz it's a way competitive field so any training i get could put me a little ahead of the next person. sigh. i wish for once i'd pick an aspiration that was not so competitive, like, say, mcdonalds manager or receptionist somewhere. but no. i pick first being a vet, when vet school is several times harder to get into than med school, and then working at a zoo, which, for a somewhat decent paying full time position is next to impossible to get AND you still don't make very much. but that really doesn't bother me, i have faith that if it's what i loved to do, i'd make it work somehow. even if i DO have to be a mcdonalds manager on the side.
i think i'm going to go to starbucks, i really want some coffee. this is a bad idea cuz i want to go to sleep semi early so i can wake up on time for class tomorrow but i'm pretty sure i'll go anyway.
a zoo keeper/zoology vet, especially for the big cats.
oh jacquie, you say, you're crazy. i disagree. i met someone who was a zookeeper for the big cats, and it sounded amazing. i can continue on the same path i've started in terms of college, but i don't have to worry about getting into vet school (unless i go for the vet at a zoo gig). plus,
SEE! that could be me! i'd get to bottle feed babies! EEEEEEE
so anyway, now i'm trying to decide if i should apply for this nonpaid internship at the Portland zoo so I can do it while i'm at school but it'd take so much of my free time, and i probably wouldn't be able to get an on campus job, ie being a desk worker like i wanted to do, so i'd have ZERO money all the time...but it'd be worth it cuz it's a way competitive field so any training i get could put me a little ahead of the next person. sigh. i wish for once i'd pick an aspiration that was not so competitive, like, say, mcdonalds manager or receptionist somewhere. but no. i pick first being a vet, when vet school is several times harder to get into than med school, and then working at a zoo, which, for a somewhat decent paying full time position is next to impossible to get AND you still don't make very much. but that really doesn't bother me, i have faith that if it's what i loved to do, i'd make it work somehow. even if i DO have to be a mcdonalds manager on the side.
i think i'm going to go to starbucks, i really want some coffee. this is a bad idea cuz i want to go to sleep semi early so i can wake up on time for class tomorrow but i'm pretty sure i'll go anyway.