layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: center, middle --- # Acceptance and Moving On ### Short Quotes --- ### “it comes with experience in that I just do accept that now and I drive away and go on to the next job and remember the good things that have happened” --- ### “I just forgot everything. Can sleep after anything." --- ### “For me there’s always a moment when I just snap in – it’s going from the knowledge to acceptance.” --- ### “You do at some point, have to accept that in doing the job you embrace these situations as well and that they’re going to happen and they’re not going to be easy and not without stress.” --- ### “When I’m at home, I’m at home I’m not at work.” --- ### “If you’ve had a rubbish calving at 3.00 am, all you want to do is go home to bed. You get up the next day, everyone has a laugh at you, and you just go on.” --- ### “TB testing can be soul-sapping but 5.00 pm always comes. It’s a social thing as well … you can always look back on it.” --- ### “I just forget everything. Can sleep after anything.” --- ### “I’m not the sort of person to bottle it up and that probably helps me as well. It’s done and I’ve forgotten about it. You lose your temper, have a moan and that’s it.” --- ### “Sometimes it’s just time – you feel really bad for a few days, but you get over it.” --- ### “For me there’s always a moment when I just snap in – it’s going from the knowledge to acceptance.” --- ### “You do at some point, have to accept that in doing the job you embrace these situations … that they’re going to happen and they’re not going to be easy and not without stress.” --- ### “You have an identity as a farm animal vet and so you know that it’s a difficult club to be in but you’re proud to be in it.” --- ### “If I don’t go back to the farm this is going to be a long-term problem, if I do, that’s a positive thing.” --- ### “You get more realistic as time goes on: Some things are just not solvable. I think you get better at warning the client in advance, so their expectations are managed better.” --- ### “In the last 6 years I’ve been in practice I usually just learn how to switch off which I couldn’t at the beginning – I was constantly thinking about work stuff.” --- ### “It’s easy to keep working, take this home. But it takes self-discipline to say, ‘no’, that’s work done for today.” --- ### “Sometimes a good cry in the car.” --- ### “I find that ‘taking a couple of minutes’, after you drive away from the farm helps. Because sometimes you’re not in a fit state to drive or you’re exhausted.” --- ### “Trying to ground yourself. It’s annoying. It’s not gone well. It’s not life or death. Comes back to if you’ve done your best of your ability.” --- ### “I think it was just experience of realising that if I did take it personally, I’d hate my job.” --- ### “Outside insight could be very helpful. Perspective, we all need a bit of that. We’re very good at being introspective and not very good at getting outside input.” --- ### “I go and try to find something to do that will make me feel more positive or, go and do something completely different.” --- ### “I think you’ve just got to tell yourself, “that was that situation, where am I going next” and don’t let that situation affect you for the next situation.” --- ### “For me, I have to ignore it, sometimes talk to colleagues, other time, I need to sleep on it – go away and come back.” --- ### “I let myself wallow for some time and then you just have to try and think right, that didn’t go fantastically, what would I do differently in the future.” --- ### “Being a new grad is crap. I felt I got a bit of respect when I’d been out 4 years.” --- ### “Not everyone’s is going to want to listen to me if they don’t know me that personally and … maybe accepting that a little bit is helpful.” --- ### “It sounds a bit arrogant – but I know I’m right. But at the same time, I appreciate there are a lot of time constraints on the farm.” --- ### “I’ve got a reasonably good rota in my current job and the out of hours work is pretty quiet so I just say “just get through this and get it done”.” --- ### “Some people aren’t going to change their ways but there may be some people who are willing to listen.” --- ### “If you feel you’ve done all that you could, then you look yourself in the mirror and say, “well I couldn’t have done any better, couldn’t have done any more.” --- ### “Taking my mind off things, doing fun stuff, not thinking about work.”