[latexr]

> Fortunately, or unfortunately, that has the side effect of eg paying veterinary nurses peanuts, because there's always people willing to do those kinds of 'cute' jobs.

Veterinaries (including technicians) have an absurdly high rate of suicide. They have a stressful job, constantly around death and mistreatment situations, and don’t get the respect (despite often knowing more than human doctors) or the salaries to match.

Calling these jobs “cute” or saying the veterinary situation is “fortunate” borders on cruel, but I believe you were just uninformed.

[eru]

Yet, people still line up to become veterinaries (and technicians). Which proves my point.

> Calling these jobs “cute” or saying the veterinary situation is “fortunate” borders on cruel, [...]

Perhaps not the best choice of words, I admit.

[latexr]

> Yet, people still line up to become veterinaries (and technicians). Which proves my point.

The informed reality is that the rate of drop out is also huge. Not only from people who leave the course while studying, but also professionals who abandon the field entirely after just a few years of work.

Many of them are already suffering in college yet continue due to a sense of necessity or sunk cost and burn themselves out.

So no, it does not prove your point. The one thing it proves is that the public in general is insufficiently informed about what being a veterinary is like. They should be paid more and have better conditions (worth noting some countries do treat them better), not be churned out and left to die (literally) because there’s always another chump down the line.

[eru]

> So no, it does not prove your point. The one thing it proves is that the public in general is insufficiently informed about what being a veterinary is like.

That doesn't really matter. What would matter is how well informed the people who decide to become a veterinary are.

> They should be paid more and have better conditions [...]

Well, everyone should be treated better and paid better.

> [...] because there’s always another chump down the line.

If they could somehow make the improvements you suggest (but don't specify how), they would lead to even more chumps joining the queue.

(And no, that's not a generalised argument against making people's lives better. If you improve the appeal of non-vet jobs, fewer people will join the vet line.

If you improve the treatment of workers in general, the length of the wanna-be-vet queue, and any other 'job queue' will probably stay roughly the same. But people will be better off.)