The New Career

I have been offered a job! My new title will be Veterinary Nurse Trainee. I'll be training on-the-job as well as going to college one day per week for two years. I'll have tests to take at the end of each of the two years, as well as creating a portfolio of tasks that I'll need to be able to perform. After that, I'll be a qualified vet nurse!

My position is a floating one - meaning that I'll be covering for holidays and sick leave between eight different offices around Southwest London. Good thing I got my driving license recently.

I'm really excited about having the opportunity to work with animals. As most of you know, I've always loved them and that doesn't seem like it's about to go away. The bad news is, it sounds like a vet nurse trainee is generally treated as the slave labour at the office. But I'm hoping the good news outweighs the bad news in this case.

I start on February 1st. I'll have a day of introduction at the head office, then a month of shadowing a head nurse at one of the branches. Then the real stuff begins. I'll let you know how it turns out!