The Discourse I am choosing for this assignment is being a veterinarian.
The artifacts that I have collected are:
Life of a Veterinarian https://www.valuepenguin.com/life-of-veterinarian
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiP4aunDDNGTeKIbeFEbZ5ToUYmVsM9tsGw1UUtVrYM/edit
Becoming a Zoo/Wildlife Vet http://www.drlucyspelman.com/doctoring-the-ark/becoming-a-zoo-vet.htm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZ7lns8rYxEaHhpXsnyJDK_WVutrHCA5jr5XKbrHIgA/edit
From the artifacts that I have collected on my chosen Discourse I feel as though I have a basic understanding of how being a veterinarian works. School wise, you need to have a basic bachelor’s degree that is heavy on science and math followed by four years of veterinary school. However, if you want to become a vet for a zoo and wildlife, you would need to do extra years of schooling that focuses on zoological medicine (anywhere from 1 to 5 years). When it comes to taking care of animals like in a normal practice, there are pros and cons. You are pursuing your passion in helping animals, but have to deal with their caretakers and the possible outcome of euthanasia. Your emotions will be altered throughout the job because you will witness all sorts of ailments that occur in animals. Vets experience death five times more than doctors for humans which can definitely alter you emotions. The job requires long hours as well. A normal practice may have normal 9am to 6pm hours (or such) but an ER veterinarian doctor can be working all hours of the day and night along with being on-call over the weekend. It is a demanding job with many opportunities since you can perform various tasks (anesthesiology, surgery, obstetrics).
collreadwrit2e
2.5 hours