Why Veterinary Medicine?

Hello everyone!
Today I'm going to tell you how I ended up choosing to study veterinary medicine in college. 

The school uniform was a suit xD

Well, it all started when I went to professional technical school and studied accounting.... at that time I really liked the career, the idea of seeing bills, checks, and generally doing a lot of paperwork that I loved, until I dropped out of school and had to do my internship.  When I did my internship I realized that I didn't like sitting in a chair in front of a computer entering data while it was locked inside 4 walls. I realized that I wanted to study something else in college, related to health (since that area always seemed very interesting to me), where I could interact with the patient, and I could also be on the move, since I was bored of sitting.

So I decided to apply to several health-related careers in 2018, in fact, if I applied to veterinary medicine but not as a first choice, I really didn't know if I was prepared to face the death of an animal or perhaps see it in critical condition. So in the first option I put Phonoaudiology, a very nice career that deals with many things, such as speech, hearing, swallowing, stroke-related problems, burns in the digestive tract, and so on. The year I studied Phonoaudiology at the University of Chile I realized several things, but, above all, I realized that the career I was studying at that time was not passionate, as I had to make a career that would continue throughout my life. 

I always liked animals

During that year I went through very bad times, I was too stressed by the fact that I had to study from Monday to Friday and also have to work from Thursday to Sunday until 23:00 hours. Then, there was a moment when my body gave no more and I had to give up, to stop studying or stop working, because doing both things at the same time was killing me. I decided to stop studying, because the truth was not in love with the career, and at that time I decided to wait until the end of the year to apply only to veterinary medicine, because, in fact, since I was a child I had loved the idea of studying veterinary medicine and thus be able to help animals.

That's how in March of this year I started to study this beautiful career called veterinary medicine, where I'm very happy! Not only because of the career, but also because I met very kind people, who I am sure will be my friends throughout the career and for many years to come. Once I graduate from college, I would love to be able to work with wild animals on a reserve, or perhaps go to another country to meet, help, research and, above all, be happy.