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Good for you!!!!! With that kind of enthusiasm, if you study hard, there is no reason you could not be a veterinarian.
You will have to take four years of college plus four years in vet school. Veterinarians are professionals and do not get paid by the hour; they are either on salary or have their own business.
The following is taken from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is published by the U.S. Dept. of Labor. Their statistics run two or three years behind, so you can add about 10%-15% to the figures quoted.
"According to a survey by the American Veterinary Medical Association, average starting salaries of veterinary medical college graduates in 2004 varied by type of practice as follows:
Small animals, predominantly $50,878
Small animals, exclusively 50,703
Large animals, exclusively 50,403
Private clinical practice 49,635
Large animals, predominantly 48,529
Mixed animals 47,704
Equine (horses) 38,628
The average annual salary for veterinarians in the Federal Government in nonsupervisory, supervisory, and managerial positions was $78,769 in 2005.
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