Passion Turns Into Career
Central Idea: My motivation and drive for striving hard to make my push into a competitive field like veterinary studies includes my ownership of various animals, volunteering with different animal rescue foundations, and starting to gain experience working with animals hands on.
Introduction: You can say that my passion for animals goes over the line towards obsession, especially for ones such as my favorite animal, the giraffe. Now when it comes to taking that and making it my career, I have chosen to take the harder path and go for my Doctorate’s Degree to become a fully licensed veterinarian. While researching how difficult it would be to gain acceptance into the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida, my dream college, I found out that I will require more than just my ultimate passion for animals to be able to obtain my degree in veterinary medicine. In today’s speech, I will share with you guys my incentives for making my passion for animals my career choice which includes: my ownership of various animals, volunteering for various animal rescue foundations and my working experience with animals hands-on.
My initial impulse for choosing this career began with my ownership of various animals
When I was younger, my first pets just included your average dogs and cats.
From then until now, I’ve owned a wider variety of pets.
Transition: As if having that amount of animals wasn’t enough, my devotion for animals led me to volunteer for various animal rescue foundations.
Knowing that I need volunteering experience to apply to veterinary school in the future, I searched for opportunities throughout high school.
My junior year I volunteered for the Siberian Husky Rescue at the Omega Dog animal adoption fair.
My senior year I began volunteering at the South Florida Wildlife Center.
Transition: Although volunteering is an excellent opportunity and good for applications, working experience has helped elaborate the aspect on interacting in a working environment. Having jobs that deal with animals and people has helped me mature my mentality of what a veterinarian might have to go through day to day.
My first job in this field was a summer job at a ranch teaching kids how to ride and take care of horses.
My current job is at Petland, working as both a sales associate and kennel technician.
Conclusion: Taking a look at how something as strong as my passion for animals has become my push for making veterinary medicine my future career is an extraordinary feeling. Owning pets, volunteering for animal foundations, and working around animals definitely continues feeding my fire and eventually walking down the aisle towards my future degree. Although the road to achieve my goal is long and difficult, my love for animals will always reassure me that it is all worth it.