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Transcriber: Eunice Tan Reviewer: Tanya Cushman As I mentioned before, I am a veterinarian. And it's been my experience that most people don't personally know a veterinarian in their own life. They may have one that they go to for services, but they don't have one as a friend or a family member or something like that. And as such, I found that very few people can relate to what I do for a profession and really understand me as a person. So to get us all on the same page, I wanted to start by just going through some facts about the veterinary profession. It took me ten years to become a veterinarian. That includes four years of undergraduate work, two years of post-bacc studies while working as a veterinary assistant to gain clinical hours. I then enrolled in WSU College of Veterinary Medicine - "Go Cougs" - and there did three years of lecture and lab work and then a rotating year in clinics, where you get to practice with animals, under supervision. $286,000 is approximately the amoun