My career....

Well I think obviusly every student who studies this career should love animals, I supose it´s like the first requirement. But besides that, I´ve always been interested in science, biology, zoology and animal behaviour, and this career (Veterinary) includes those topics. When I was a kid I decided to be a vet, my parents used to say: "he will change, he just likes animals, etc", but when I finished highschool, Veterinary was the only career I applied for, I couldn´t see my self doing anything else as a job in my life. I have to recognize that I wanted to apply to Universidad Austral (Valdivia), but my mom told me, "you don´t move from Santiago", so here I am.....
I think vets contribute to society in many ways. For example vets deal with zoonotic diseases (specially now with the virus influenza A H1N1), vets deal with pets and even though for some people it´s not very important, for others it is. Vets are in charge of National Parks, we also are in charge of any kind of industry in animal production, etc.
In the future vets will need or will hope for more conscience from pet´s owners or society in general, it would also be great that governments take political decisions about the welfare of animals and vets can help in that. The technology that human medicine has would be a huge advance if we could have that and apply to our patients.
What I would like to do in my future work-life is to work with exotic animals, maybe in a vet clinic, a zoo or national parks. My dream since I entered the university is to go Australia and work there with reptiles (lizards) and hopefully live there forever......