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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Just as an example, there is a serious shortage of vets. My DD is a junior in college and has been taking a pre-vet curriculum and has done well academically. She worked at a vet’s office in high school and it is all she has ever wanted to do, but after a ton of research and discussions with practicing vets, she is pivoting to considering other paths because the debt to income ratio is terrifying. We saved and were able to put her through college without borrowing any money, and are not low income enough that she could qualify for any kind of need based grants, but we can’t help her further because we have to ensure our retirement savings are secure. I’m sad for her of course, but the societal impacts of this playing out across a lot of professions are profound. [/quote]

This is nothing new.  20 years ago I set my vet dreams aside for the law, because of the ratio of debt to prospective income.  I went to a top 3 law school and still had significant debt, but I continued living like a student and paid it off in a few years.

The golden handcuffs are real.

Yet there are constantly threads complaining about vet costs here.  The debt plus the sheer capital investment to have a practice are astronomical.  My vet was out last week and was trying a new ultrasound he had to get…$30k.  Makes my $150 horse uterine scan seem really rather cheap![/quote]

That was 20 years ago.[/quote]

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