Why is the veterinary staff retention rate so poor? People seem to plan to jump ship at the slightest inconvenience. In my experience, insufficient downtime due to understaffing made me consider looking at other career options.

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Many clinics will push you to your limit without a care in the world when your mental health is one of the most important things to take care of when you work in Vet med. It's ridiculous. I wouldn't blame anyone who up and leaves.

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Yeah. Same reason here. That would make me want to switch career as well.

They probably didn't know prior to joining this profession that we encounter a lot of problems almost every day. Being understaffed is one of the reasons. So yeah, I get what you mean.

People are doing double the work without the appropriate pay while the bosses try to find other people. My former job made me so angry, resentful and just a negative person.

What this career puts us through is not worth staying and not worth feeling guilty over leaving. My last clinic broke me, destroyed my passion, burned me out to the point that I made mistakes every day, and just killed my spirit. It's taken me years to regain myself.

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