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Job Description: In this interview, she talks about her basic job and why she loves being a veterinarian. She says "A lot of it is talking with the owners about how the pet's been, how they're feeling, what's been changing" (Veterinarian, Freeland Animal Hospital – Career Services Network I Michigan State University 0:42-0:50).This is really important because you are able to tell a lot about if the animal is healthy just by their behavior at home. If an animal stops eating as much or not playing as much as normal that is a sign to bring them in for a physical.

Loves and Challenges: Something that she likes about the job is client education "If I can help an owner take better care of their pet and I don't have to see them nearly as often that's fantastic" ( Veterinarian, Freeland Animal Hospital – Career Services Network I Michigan State University 0:19-0:30)

This is something that I feel most vets would not agree with but I found it really interesting. Most would say that there favorite part of the job would be seeing the animals and make them feel better but sometimes forget that there is always an owner attached to the pet. So in a way communication with people is very important in our line of work

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Tiffany is a Veterinarian with Freeland Animal Hospital in Indianapolis. With a focus on cats and dogs, Tiffany handles everything from healthy vaccine appointments for puppies to emergency surgica…

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PVMA is a great way for people who are in an animal science field to make connections with people who are vets and find other people with the same interests as you.

The club does many different events like fundraising, Farrowing, cleaning up East Lansing Parks, and more. during the weekly general meetings, they have many different guest speakers come in and talk about their experiences with Vet school, and their career so far.

MSU PVMA

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This club allowed me to hear from many different Veterinarians and see what they have gone through with their career and schooling.

This was very helpful for me because it showed many different types of vets what their day-to-day life looks like and the typical cases they see in a week.

This helped me confirm what type of vet I could want to be in the future.

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MSU Intercollegiate Figure Skating Team 

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MSUFSC is a student-run organization that is based out of the Munn Ice arena. We have weekly practices together at Munn once a week and even go out to competitions representing the school in the Midwest division.

MSU Figure Skating Team

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A lot of people will go into the following fields when they major in animal science:

Production and Management:

Livestock Production- work with dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine, equine, small ruminants/sheep and goats, and poultry in many different management positions

Livestock Feed- production and development, quality control, distribution and marketing

Agribusiness and Communication:

Sales- livestock, feed, pharmaceuticals, etc.

Customer service management

Marketing

Agricultual Journalism

Education:

k-12

Non-classroom education

Extension classes

Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation

Aquarium/Zoo conservation education.

Veterinary Medicine:

Areas of specialization- small animal, large animal, equine medicine

Food safety, inspection, security

Preventative medicine

surgery

Public health

Laboratory animal medicine

Research

Those are some of the broader categories for animal science majors in what they wind up doing for their careers.

Animal Science – What Can I Do With This Major

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I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, with my mom, dad, and many pets. My whole life, I grew up in a house with at least one pet. I have had 8 dogs and 3 cats so far. The animals I've had shaped who I am today and why I want to become a small animal veterinarian.

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Throughout school, I was in the band playing clarinet and bass clarinet. When in high school I was in my school's Wind Ensemble where I made most of my friends that can still reach out to whenever. In wind, I made many memories that I can still laugh at when I think of them, and this shaped my personality in many ways.

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I also am a figure skater and have been since I was 6 years old. I tried other sports but none of them stuck until figure skating, it was something I enjoyed doing and it made me happy. Through the hard times in the sport, I never gave up and just kept trying to improve more and more as got older. I would just remember to tell myself that through all the blood sweat and tears this sport put me through that there was nothing else I wanted to do.

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While I skated at the Amherst Skating Club I became an active member of the club by working Learn to Skate and being a part of the junior board for many years. As someone who worked in Learn to Skate, I was able to develop skills that allowed me to grow as a person, learning how to explain things in a way that I would not normally think of which will benefit me when in my future career. As for the junior board, I started on it when I was 12 and had an executive position every year from the start. My fellow club members came and left from executive positions, but I worked my way up from treasurer, to secretary, to vice president, and then eventually president. I learned many different leadership skills from this.

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This is something that I have always wanted to do ever since I was a child. Like I said in my previous post I've always had pets, and they all have influenced me to want to become a vet. Helping animals is something that I think can make a difference and it is just something I want to do. I chose Pre-Vet for many reasons, of course, the little kid in me who always wanted to be a veterinarian is there, but also the fact that I have had many pets in my life, and one of my most recent ones made me solidify my choice. My dog had very severe glaucoma in her one eye and even had an ulcer behind it because before we rescued her she was a puppy mill mom who was not taken care of well at all. For the time that we had her, she had to get her eye removed and I took care of her during that whole time

before and after surgery.

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The AVMA is an organization where that empowers veterinarians to thrive in the profession that they love.

The website has several different resources for other methods of treating animals with various diseases. All the different articles provide information on each disease and is a really great resource for Veterinarians if they come across something in their work that they are not as familiar with.

Animal health and welfare | American Veterinary Medical Association Home Page

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The AAHA is an accredited veterinary practice that delivers high-quality care for pets. They know how important it is to give your pets the best quality care possible because they are part of your family, so they will link you to many different accredited Animal Hospitals near where you are located. They also have lots of information on the website about why it is important to have different wellness visits and the benefits to having your pet get vaccinated against all different things.

Benefits of Membership: American Animal Hospital Association - AAHA

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American Association Veterinary Medical Colleges

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American Association Veterinary Medical Colleges

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This website will link you to all the organizations and schools that offer Pre-Vet and Vet medicine in America and many more things. They also have list of all the requirements for each school and help you learn more about what will be the best fit for you.

AAVMC Learn - AAVMC

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Job Description: In her line of work, she helps inform farmers of how much money they are spending on different projects, and building sales and trust in the dairy industry. She said "The other thing we have to do is always stay relevant" (Industry Relations Program Manager, Midwest Dairy Association – Career Services Network I Michigan State University 1:45-2:21)

She finds this important because as education may end learning never does and especially for an industry like Dairy there are always going to be things to learn about.

How to Prepare: she says to "Keep your options open, have an internship, and I really think that as long as you are willing to push yourself outside of the box and have a positive attitude about what you wanna do it doesn't matter if you have a degree in design or it doesn't matter if you have a degree in animal science. If you are passionate and you wanna work for the dairy farmers" (Industry Relations Program Manager, Midwest Dairy Association – Career Services Network I Michigan State University 0:00-0:27)

This advice is not only good for this major but it is also good for anybody in any line of work. It will prove in the long run that it is you are truly passionate about what you do.

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Industry Relations Program Manager, Midwest Dairy Association

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She is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Graduate from MSU in 2003. She works at the East Lansing Vet Clinic where she specializes in in soft tissue surgery, exotic animal medicine, and acupuncture. She is a part of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the World Association of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine.

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"I guess it was since I was a little kid, I liked animals and like a lot of little girls I wanted to be a veterinarian and just stuck with it" ( Harshbarger 0:20-0:58) - this is something I relate to a lot because this has always been in my life and is something that seems to be universal across most veterinarians.

she also specializes in Acupuncture and asked about why she said "I'm a martial artist and so I thought that acupuncture and the traditional Chinese Medicine would be a fun way to bridge eastern ways with veterinary medicine" (Harshbarger 0:20-0:58)

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What types of communication skills do you regularly use in your position?

"Mostly verbal and then, nonverbal, like body language, you know, advocate attention to my body language when I'm talking with clients, so I don't cross my arms and things like that. Verbal explanations, but I like a lot of written communication as well" (Harshbarger 1:00-1:37). When listening to her speak about how communication affects her body language and how she has to be extra focused on it, that made me think about how all doctors must hold themselves. You cannot be fidgeting because you can look unsure, and you cannot be slouching because that looks unprofessional, body language can tell people a lot of different things and it is important when communicating to clients that you are not showing the wrong message.

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Adam Grant's explanation of the different personality traits people have when it comes to the professional setting is something that is important to acknowledge when looking at your career. In Vet Med I think that most people are going to be givers. Most vets that I have met in my life all want to do anything for their pets and will try and help you no matter how bad the situation for their animal is.

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Thinking of your daily work, what does research look like for you?

"So I would say research would be through medical journals, medical textbooks, and then VIN veterinary information network."(Harshbarger 5:39-5:54). Research is something that is very important to use as a vet, there will always be things that you might not be confident in when you come across it in an animal, so it is important to double-check information frequently using those sources.

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The two colors that I felt represented me the most were green and gold. As someone who has a green personality I have a variety of interest, a curious mind, and in a group setting expect people to follow through with their responsibilities (Boelcke, G. (2009).Colorful Personalities. Vantage Publishing). But with a gold personality, I feel the best when I am prepared and have a sense of order in my life. I tend to show lots of personality traits, like being punctual and loyal, which are what people with gold personalities have. (Boelcke, G. (2009).Colorful Personalities. Vantage Publishing).

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This interview was very beneficial to me because it opened up many different possibilities for me in the future. During the interview I was able to see what she does on a daily and why she chooses to be a veterinarian, which was similar to me. But the part of the interview that you didn't see when I was done with the recording and saying goodbye, Harshbarger told me that if while at school if I wanted to get some animal and vet experience to contact her and I would possibly be able to work in her vet clinic.

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The reason for choosing my major was something that I was able to express the whole way through this project which was something I did not think I would have been able to do before the project.

Every stage reminded me of choosing the major and why it was important

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I learned that it is important to think creatively in my field because nothing in vet medicine is the same throughout history and you are constantly learning new things every day at work.

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As I did this Project I knew that my focus would always be small animals, like dogs and cats, but when doing all this research and see that Harshbarger specialized in something like acupuncture it opened my eyes to a whole new area of being a small animal vet.

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I was able to see what type of personalities work best in the workplace which is something that will be very important in my future if I want to have my own vet clinic.

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I was able to see what types of organizations there are in vet med and see what I will eventually need to join to benefit my career.

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The MSU figure skating team has benefited me in so many ways this year and I could not be happier to have gotten to be on this team. This club is where I was able to make the most friends and really love MSU!

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Adam Grant: The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job

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Adam Grant: The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job

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"When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position and salary is important, there’s another consideration that matters just as much: culture. The culture of a workplace — an organization’s values, norms and practices — has a huge impact on our happiness and success."

When I was thinking of my career the environment was something that I thought a lot about, including when I was applying to colleges. I wanted something that would have everything that I wanted. I wanted to be in a pre-vet program most importantly, a lot of the schools I applied for were SUNY schools, which for the most part do not have pre-vet or animal science as majors you can choose so those schools were ruled out sooner than others. Then the second most important thing to me was that I would still be able to skate in college, which ultimately led to me choosing MSU.

Opinion | The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job - The New York Times