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Recently I've noticed that my decision to get into veterinary technology either seems surprising or I am being judged for reasons that are beyond my comprehension, and since I don't like to think that a friend is judging me I'll assume it's the former and take a moment to explain.

In all honesty, this is not something I planned out and it's definitely not where I would have pictured myself being at any point in time. I basically had a seemingly useless degree that wasn't getting me any career leads any time soon, and I'm not going to spend my life in retail because that would kill me, so I really just needed to find something to do.

If you know me you know I love animals. For a long time I had thought about doing people nursing, but being the germaphobe that I can't see that going well at all. I never really put two and two together and thought about working with animal medicine, though.

It was Laura who was going to the school to check out the program and I just came along for support. I said this looks fun, she said we should do it together, and I said sure whatever and joined. That's pretty much it. I didn't plan it out, I wasn't excited about it aside from the fact that it was something new. It just sort of happened.

Once I started school, and especially once I started actually working as an unregistered assistant in a hospital, I realized how perfect it is for me and I love what I'm doing. I like where I am right now, and I'm feeling very proud of myself for doing so well in courses that I always just assumed were too hard for me to bother trying to understand. I always did terrible in science classes in high school and DVC, and now I'm at the top of my class!

So, I understand if it's surprising that I chose this path over the paths that I always said I wanted to take because I'm pretty surprised with myself, too. But, I do want it to be known that even though this is something I just fell into, it doesn't mean that I'm not passionate about it and it doesn't mean I'm not taking it seriously, and being treated in a way that makes me feel like there's even the smallest possibility that I'm judged is so completely inappropriate and disrespectful I don't even know how to take it.

I hate know-it-alls. And I hate people who post things after the posts made by know-it-alls that say things like, "Right as usual!" and "Are you EVER wrong?" God, quit kissing a** and post something useful, or don't post at all. Losers.