layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: center, middle --- # Being busy, work satisfaction and learning ### Short Quotes --- ### “People invariably want to be specialists. They want to be the best, great! But give it a few years.” --- ### “… sometimes it can take overnight to feel a bit better about it again – really until I get launched into something else.” --- ### “I think the more experienced I get the more confident I get.” --- ### “I’m going to go and do an MBA, give myself another option.” --- ### “You’re always going to have routine work – disbudding, castrations – I don’t see them as a negative.” --- ### “I built confidence a bit, but got to know the farmers too - before you had to, for example, calve in the middle of the night. At least they knew you - and you knew them and knew where to find the farm.” --- ### “Seeing someone who doesn’t really know what to do with the problems they’ve got and giving them a potential (and successful) route out.” --- ### “I love going out and delivering a live calf or saving an animal. But my main interest is more in herd health and preventative care rather than fire engine stuff.” --- ### “Routine dairy work – go on farm once a week, build up relationship with the client and the workers and seeing the recommendations coming into action and the positive benefits on the farm.” --- ### “… leaving a farm with satisfaction leaving a job behind that I’ve done to standard that I should be working at and a client says thank you and that appreciates it.” --- ### “I think that that’s the key, for people to be filling their days with variety and not get stuck doing the same thing over and over again.” --- ### “The general day-to-day I still enjoy – been doing it 20 years now.” --- ### “Nice to have a job and be busy.” --- ### “If you’ve got a caesarean and you can call up another vet and do it as a two vet job, it can be a lot of fun – there’s a feeling of camaraderie and you feel like you’re doing a good job.” --- ### “The variety, the fact you can be doing different things hour to hour.” --- ### “… it’s a case of giving a bit of support and encouragement but also for them to try and find their own interests.” --- ### “And feel you’re evolving as a person and as a vet. Having access to CPD either online or the opportunity to read papers, listen to webinars and physically attend CPD meetings.” --- ### “When I feel that I’m improving in terms of my clinical thinking and skills is really important to me – that I don’t feel stuck.” --- ### “Diversity, wide range of different animal species; different clients; being active and being outside.” --- ### “… ok, so the next day you’re sleep deprived, but while you’re doing it, you’re enjoying it.” --- ### “We’re busy people but we like being busy.” --- ### “I worked hard, took extra money rather than extra holidays and was probably the main farm animal vet within about two years and then got the opportunity to buy the place.” --- ### “Nothing gets a man or woman out of bed like an overdraft.” --- ### “She was in bits but wanted to come in and be busy.” --- ### “I didn’t do an intern programme and I did get pushed in to the deep end and it was very scary, and I didn’t enjoy my first year in practice, but I learnt by my mistakes.” --- ### “Variation from day to day.” --- ### “Good diagnosis, especially if young graduates have never heard of the disease. Showing off a bit!” --- ### “Always an element of trepidation before you start but if you can sort things … and keeping the grey matter active with clinical challenges.” --- ### “I think there’s quite a lot of things really that would give me satisfaction and a range of things as well, and I think the range is the important part.” --- ### “I think that the big thing is variety and being able to look at the big picture and go from project to project rather than just turning the handle.” --- ### “I quite enjoy even the routine jobs and the emergencies are fine too!” --- ### “… delivering a service that you felt very good about, in a way which delivered emotional fulfilment as well, if I can call it that. That relationship fulfilment with the client.” --- ### “Sorting problems out – ongoing production problem or calving a cow or a longer term health issue.” --- ### “I also like it when you give your opinion and you know they’re listening to you.” --- ### “Problems that can be solved quite quickly – e.g. calvings / lambings.” --- ### “I enjoy the emergency veterinary medicine, surgeries, caesareans, stitch-ups.” --- ### “So just the obvious stuff – the good outcomes.” --- ### “… even just the real small tiny wins that actually the farmer had called you out that day, so you have been able to get on farm that day and you have made a difference.” --- ### “Doing a big job and doing it quickly.” --- ### “well actually, my job is quite nice!” --- ### “I like it when you get to a farm and things go well, everyone’s happy.” --- ### “I get job satisfaction from clients that I’ve built a relationship with, looking for my advice and seeking out my advice.” --- ### “If you can make a difference – an outbreak which you can diagnose, solve the problem quite quickly and prevent another one happening and give some advice.” --- ### “Farmers happy; something survived that you weren’t expecting it to, or generally, a good outcome on farms.” --- ### “When farmers want your advice and take it and you see things improve as a result, for example, in animal welfare and productivity. And individual fixing of sick animals – seeing them get better.” --- ### “When you’re inexperienced, fixing that individual animal can be something new and something rewarding.” --- ### “Had a great week last week – coughing piglets – a success with right drugs and right advice about husbandry changes.” --- ### “Routine dairy work – go on farm once a week, build up relationship with the client and the workers and seeing the recommendations coming into action and the positive benefits on the farm.” --- ### “Leaving a farm with satisfaction leaving a job behind that I’ve done to standard that I should be working at and a client says “thank you” and that appreciates it.” --- ### “Being able to support and advise farmers (those who want it), and trying to make a difference.” --- ### “Seeing someone who doesn’t really know what to do with the problems they’ve got and giving them a potential (and successful) route out.” --- ### “… combination of proactive health planning stuff, working with farmers to see improvements which is not a quick reward thing – it can take years to get people to come on board.” --- ### “So early on in my career it was the basic – a good lambing, a good calving.” --- ### “Doing a difficult calving (especially if someone else has tried unsuccessfully)” --- ### “a calving – I love to see a live calf. If I get a live calf after a calving, or a caesarean calving – or a lamb after a lambing or a caesarean or sheep ……you know I get a massive buzz off that” --- ### “any intervention like calving a cow” --- ### “I love going out and delivering a live calf or saving an animal” --- ### “I still enjoy going to calvings, when you get a nice positive outcome, it’s quite a good feeling.” --- ### “Producing a live calf after a difficult calving. After 42 years, I still stand there with a smile on my face – thinking, this is the best feeling in the world!”