Maurice Said:

Choosing a career: How to make the right choice?

We Answered:

Yes, you know. Your love of the work makes the hours seem like minutes. You also tend to make the most money in a field that you love.

Kelly Said:

When choosing a career is it more important to be good at it/ enjoy it & work hard??

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something you lov and have to work hard at...the work will get easier,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Judith Said:

Info about choosing a career in zoological medicine?

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By zoological medicine, do you mean a zoo vet or wildlife vet? Either way, to practice medicine, you will have to go to Vet school. Becoming a Vet takes a lot of hard work and is not easy. To become a Vet, you first need to finish an undergraduate degree, then apply to Vet school. There isn't a specific undergraduate degree you need, but many vet students have bachelor's degrees in biology or one of it's subfields. Some universities have a pre-professional program for students who want to go to Med/Vet/Dental/etc school. Most undergraduate degrees take four years to finish but many people take five years or more.

Once you finish your undergraduate, you apply to get into vet school. Admission to Vet school is extremely competitive. There are only 28 Vet schools in the U.S. and each school only takes a set amount of students. It is actually easier to get into Med school than Vet school. To get into Vet school, you need a high GPA (as close to a 4.0 as possible), you will need to take a standardized test called the GRE and score well on that, and you will usually have to write an essay.

Once you get in, Vet school takes 4 years. Three years of classes and one year on clinical rotations/externships. Once you graduate, you will receive you Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree (DVM). Then you will need to take national and state boards before you are licensed to practice.

To specialize in zoo or wildlife medicine, you will want to take as many classes in these subjects during your first three years as possible. During your first three years, you will have the set core classes that you have to take and some opportunities to take some electives in areas that you are more interested in (large animal, small animal, zoo, etc.) Genreally this will be more in the third year. During your rotations/exterships, you will be able to take rotations in areas that you are interested in. You will also have time to take externships at different places outside of the vet school. This is a good time to concentrate on zoo and wildlife medicine. For example. during her fourth year, my wife did a 4 week externship in Cape Cod at a wildlife center and a 6 week externship at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Ohama.

Hope that Helps.

Don Said:

I need some help with choosing a career?

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The draw of money should never be a consideration for choosing a career. You need to choose something you are good at and enjoy otherwise you will fail miserably!
You might consider taking an aptitude test at you local employment service or psychological testing center. Although not perfect, the results will give you direction.

If you are better than everyone else at a job and enjoy it, you will get good pay.

Ruby Said:

Where can I take the quizzes about choosing a career?

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Career tests sometimes help, and I list a couple of quick online ones for you below. I'm sure your school must have more extensive tests to try too.

These can stimulate your thinking and open up possibilities. But I use a more personal, individualized approach with my career coaching clients. In fact, some come to me precisely because career tests, no matter how extensive and well analyzed, often don't give them an answer that feels true to who they are and what they'd like to do.

So how do you know? You already have an idea of who you are and what you like and what you are or may be good at doing. That's why you decided the tests you took were inaccurate. Use that same self-knowledge as the basis of your search.

Choose courses that test and develop your interests and passions. Start with your long-term passions. If you really are passionate about something, then you are likely to have the persistence and desire to learn enough about it to pursue that as your career.

Talk with teachers and do informational interviews with people in a field that might include some of your passions. For instance, find out in detail what IT managers or graphic designers do every day, and think if that would be something you could feel passionate about doing?

With that in mind, check out these fast online quizzes about career preferences that might open up ideas:

The fastest Meyers Briggs personality test I've ever seen--4 questions:
http://resources.monster.com/tools/quizz...

A people. ideas. things. test (which of the 3 areas you like more) is quick analysis to decide what tendencies you may have
http://www.fabjob.com/tips215.html

A bit more serious and thorough approach:
http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinte...

Good luck.
Leonard from http://choosingacareerblog.com

Claude Said:

I need help on choosing a career choice?

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i'm assuming you are talking about undergrad degrees. if you want to be a vet, you will need 4 more years of vet school after undergrad. I know nothing about anthropology, but if it is like most other fields I would guess you probally need a master's or phd to get a job..so more school after undergrad. Look at schools that offer both degrees, perhaps you could double major, or if you change your mind on one, you could easily switch majors. Most state universities offer pre vet related degrees. The most useful being animal science or vet science. As far as vet training goes, it doesn't matter where you get your undergrad training, as long as all prereqs are met. Then as far as vet schools, admission is so competative, people usually go to whatever school accepts them.
avma.org and aavmc.org has info on vet school stuff