Do you ever want to just stay at home knitting and drinking tea...?

Lately I have spoken with quite a few brilliant, clever and amazing young female vets that have just … lost the fire. When we talk about what their career looks like, and what they really want, if they could do ANYTHING without having to worry about money, they actually just want to be at home. Knitting, drinking tea, walking the dogs …

They don’t look forward to going to work, but it’s necessary for financial reasons, and also, they’ve studied so long and hard to get here…

Now, in order to become a veterinarian you have to be quite ambitious. You have to be willing to work hard, and believe in yourself. So it struck me as odd that these vets just suddenly should have a change of personality and lose all the traits that got them where they are today.

The first thing I realised is that they no longer even believe they could enjoy their job again. That they’ll just have to do it, because it’s expected and necessary, but not fun.

So in order to feel better, they have to work as little as possible, earning as much as possible, so they can have time for what they really want.

I want everyone who’s feeling like that right now to know that it’s TOTALLY POSSIBLE TO LOVE THE CAREER YOU’VE WORKED SO HARD FOR!!

No matter how disappointed and burnt out you feel right now, you can turn it around and fall in love with veterinary life again.

The first step though, is to believe it’s possible. And I’m telling you it is, because I’ve been there.

It’s likely your brain can’t even go there, because it’s so busy finding all the evidence that the veterinary career is just not for you anymore.

Your brain will be looking to the past, to everything that’s happened and how you handled it, and will keep you in that one-way track.

But if you can step out of that track for a minute, and imagine a life where you love what you’re doing, what you’re meant for - a badass veterinarian - How would you feel? How would your life be different?

In your corner,

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