veterinary assistant

veterinary technician

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entry level technician

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ShotVet

Working long hours on weekends (average 15-17 hours per day Saturday and Sunday). Good for college students needing time during the week for school. Lots of driving and travel because they do not operate locally, so minimum travel distance was just over an hour, maximum travel distance was to Louisiana for full weekend work. Only overnight is on Louisiana route. Fast paced, but vaccines are stored on ice in coolers and not in a temperature controlled refrigerator on the vans. Lots of prevention options. Potential to get good health insurance if you can manage to work more than 36 hours every week, which is next to impossible if you only work weekends. 

A typical day starts when you walk into the building to get keys to the van and all of the equipment and supplies for the day. Once the van is loaded, you drive anywhere from 1-4 hours to get to your first stop of the day, usually a pet store. Once inside and set up, you see patients for 1 hour. Anyone in line bwfore the allotted hour ends is also seen. If you have 20 people in line that have yet to be checked in or seen by the doctor for vaccines after the hour is over, you stay until everyone is seen. This means you can stay an extra hour or two at each stop, sometimes making it late to your next stop or even skipping lunch altogether. There is no designated lunch time, and if you work through the time allotted for lunch and to get to your next destination, so won't get lunch because you are expected to be at the next stop no later than the scheduled start time. You can call corporate and have them call the location if you are delayed, but you still have to deal with angry customers. A typical day has about 4 stops on average, each lasting for 1 hour, but as mentioned above, you may be at a single location for upwards of 3 hours if it's particularly busy. Once you finish your last stop of the day, you pack up and drive the van home, where you unload the supplies and turn in the keys. On Sunday evenings, inventory is done so that the van supply bins and vaccines can be restocked for the next week. 

Staff is largely incompetent and can't restrain animals safely. No training on animal behavior or restraint techniques, so high potential for unsafe practices, especially when many of the patients seen are aggressive or reactive dogs who can't be taken to a normal vet. Lots of drama, staff talk a lot in the van on the way to work sites, especially because of the demographic of the staff (mostly college women, some college age men). Sometimes a lot of drama between doctors (independent contractors) and ShotVet staff. Very toxic work environment. During my time, one of the employees got sick on a route in San Antonio and had to go to the hospital. She was left there with no way to get home because staff travel together in company vans with 2-4 people per route piled in 1 van. Many drivers are aggressive on the road, swerving through traffic at 90+ mph on highways, most looking at their phones while driving, and I'm not talking about being on their phones while at a stop light.  While I was there, the location manager was very close friends with some of the staff, so if you had a complaint against them, you couldn't take it to her. 

Overall, good place to work to pay the bills, but not a long term job for the vast majority of employees. High turnover rate, and not somewhere to work if you're looking to make friends. 

Working in ShotVet has shown its fair shares of its management and environment. Here is a description of what to expect if your thinking of applying for a position here.

Days that you are working are usually the weekends, with it lasting  10-14 hours  per day (20-26 hours every weekend) depending on the meet time and route that you go. However it isn't pure work all the way, half of the time is spent driving/waiting in between stops, while the other half is conducting clients and administrating vaccines/preventions. 

The work environment is very open and welcoming for everyone so it doesn't feel like needing to keep to yourself too much.  Many there are open about who they are themselves. Which is nice given that you spend all day with 1-3 other people.

The Learning process can be tricky depending on any previous jobs or skills you acquired. And depending on said experience  could provide you a more formidable position and/or pay. it can take some time to get a grip on how things are done but coworkers are willing to help if you are struggling

In the company, each team includes at least 2 people, sometimes more if the route has more than enough clients registered. Each team includes a lead, the one who talks to the clients about the vaccines and registers payment then records each transaction while writing down prescriptions', and a tech, the one who is responsible for pulling vaccines for the pets (some can administer but only if they had previously had proper training and the vet allows it) while also giving heartworm tests and handing out rabies tags. Unless you had prior experience working in a vet clinic environment with the right skills on hand, beginning the job will place you on lead. (Cross training does happened, but you will need to talk with your current manager about it.) 

While most of the things to expect is mostly acceptable, there is not much room to advance your position, and given that most of the ones who have advance are usually bossy and have an ego including on what is need, it can feel like you are stuck and can't get much out of working for long.  While you can get a discount on items and vaccines when you work there long enough, there is not much else you can get other than experience for your next resume.

Another issue is you are asked to be more of a salesperson than a nurse for pets. It is high encouraged to sell as much as you can, sometimes even more than the client may need. While you can talk to the clients about what is truly needed, it is heavily preferred to try and get as much profit for each stop

To summarized, despite the negatives, I don't wish to say that this place isn't a position to get started. I do believe that if you want to work with animals yet have not yet and don't know where to start, this jobs is perfectly fine.  It is important to know that working here should be seen as a job more than a career, not that jobs are bad, but jobs don't have as much place for advancement as a career.


TL:DR : Good start, but mostly as a start.

I really enjoyed working here. I felt very good about my coworkers and was very happy with the overall helpfulness and friendliness in the office.
Something that I did find a little uncomfortable was how the main management in my department were all related to each other. I didn't care for that, I felt worried all the time because I felt like if one of them didn't like my work, none of them did. 
I did feel a little mislead by the title of the position, it said "Receptionist" but it was actually a call center. Duties were more centered around sales than anything else, which I definitely wasn't prepared for. However, it was good to get that experience. 
I did not feel prepared for the work that I was given. I got one full 8-hour day of training with a coworker, but I definitely felt I needed more training than I had received. Some advice, be prepared to learn a lot on your own. While I could ask questions and get help every day, that alone wasn't enough to get fully comfortable with the work I was expected to do.
The last thing I want to mention is disorganization. There were many cases of things getting lost, things that were not being sent, and issues with the technology. I understand these things happen, but this was a consistent problem whenever I came into work.
Something positive, I did appreciate how management was very flexible with the schedule and made sure to give people the time off they needed. Even for my coworkers, it felt like they did their best to accommodate all students. 
The CEO was also very involved with my department so it is nice to know that upper management is interacting with the call center to try to make things easier for everyone.


We work a lot of hours on the weekends but when you get to take care of dogs and cats all day - the time goes quickly. The hardest part is dealing with customers who are grumpy but our team does it's best to press through and we focus on the great people who genuinely love our service and that we are affordable. 

I have worked at regular animal hospitals and I enjoy ShotVet a lot more. At an animal hospital - you are always the support person for the vet and have to do the grunt work. I feel like at this job, I am able to actually shine and show my knowledge skills in educating customers. The vets mostly do the vaccine injections and read the tests. So I love that I get to be more in the front talking and playing with the pets while helping the customers understand what they need and why.

They absolutely promote from within if you are a hard worker and want it. But if you are a slacker, they probably won't keep you. They recently raised pay so that has been very helpful and have good benefits though I don't personally need health insurance. I really like the travel part of it getting to stay in nice hotels and we get paid for the entire time we are in the car (which a lot of time people are just playing on their phones or sleeping) so that is a good perk. 

Leadership is accessible and it is nice that everyone has an open door policy. I like that it is veterinarian owned instead of a big corporation because you feel like the animals come first instead of corporate greed like some of the competitors. 

Getting hired for your first animal field job was certainly exciting. Being told in the way beginning your specific days you were going to work felt secure. The first weekend of work was overwhelming. Busy with little training. Never got a training packet or was told about training videos or knowledge about each vaccine distributed. Considering this was highly a job about pet parents receiving low price vaccines. It was too busy to have someone train you. Maybe an hour here or there. Most of the training was from watching and learning from others. Asking the doctors on your route questions was also helpful. Besides that you were basically on your own. The system we used on sites was slow and not reliable. Lots of unnecessary stress when trying to help pet parents. Lots of mistakes were happening when it came to pets either missing vaccines or getting the wrong vaccines distributed. Hours were cut without being told. You just had to wait and see if you were going to be emailed your schedule. If you did not receive an email it meant you were not working. That seemed to be happening a lot. Confusing as to why they were always hiring. All in all this job had potential and could have been a great experience. The company only seemed to a care about making a profit rather than what they aim for which is providing low income pet parents a chance to receive vaccines for their pets. This is a job for people just getting out of high school or having it on the side. 

I worked at shotvet as a lead and a technician while I was in undergrad. I am now almost done with vet school and plan to go back some weekends to help pay down my student loans. This company does amazing things for pets and staff. They genuinely care about their staff and there is no better way how to handle all types of animals then to work in an environment like this where you get exposure to all sorts of pets with various demeanor. It greatly prepared me for analyzing various pet personalities/behaviors in vet school. I also think that there are so many pets out there suffering from parvo and going unvaccinated. People think rabies is nonexistent and they are wrong. It is still critically important that pets of all economic backgrounds get care. I worked at a regular clinic in high school and the prices were cringe-worthy. So many pets got the bare minimum because it cost $70 for an exam so many would only have $100 and get the exam and rabies only. At ShotVet pets can get fully vaccinate and hw tested, lyme tested for a small fraction of the cost. Here is the big secret - most of the vets that work here also work at a regular clinic during the week and charge all of the extra fees there. You literally get the exact same thing - with the exact same vets - and can actually afford it. I am very excited to get to come back as a DVM and the pay for us is very good.

First off let me say this, I loved this job! This is a perfect place to learn if you want to become a vet tech or anything in the animal industry. As with any job theres drama, plenty of it, but when is there not. II have been in the workforce for 4 years and they were my first actual animal industry job and ill just say this if they didnt let me go I would have stayed for well over 10 years even as a side job. I loved learning as much as I did and it was perfect to only work weekends as someone with a health condition. At the end of my probate period though rather than tell me to my face I got an email telling me that I was being let go, along with my co-worker who had also been let go of that same day. To me this hurt because I wasn't able to just jump to another tech job because they want more experience but I wasn't able to get it due to them letting me go. Again I think the concept is great, morals are great, management though just needs to stop picking favorites, actually talk to their employees about problems they might be having, and also not make their employees feel like nothing just because management didn't want to manage and sit and talk to their employees.

Unless you work in the office, most of your work hours are on the weekend. Typically 25-36 hours in 2-3 days. The tech and lead jobs are really easy, just travel to your pop up location, check the clients in, give the animals vaccines, repeat 4-7 times that day, and then drive home. 

I absolutely love the 2-3 day work week, it is one of the strongest benefits at the company. Its a great job if you are going to school, or need extra money. 

The job can get stressful if you have busy stops, but honestly most people are reasonable and kind if they see you are busy. You get to see really cute animals all day, so overall pretty good. 

However, the organization of the company is... haphazard at best. There are supervisors overseeing multiple states, there are no real consequences to not doing your job properly, and there is very little room for advancement. 

There is no PTO, hard to access health insurance, almost no chance of a raise, and you must get in with the right people if you want to move up in the company. 

Do not bother. Simply put. This company is running itself into the ground very quickly. The turnover rate is absolutely ridiculous as no one sticks around for longer than 6 months (on average). The company's priorities are completely out of whack and they do not care about the teams at all. They make big promises but fail to live up to them and only create new problems without any solutions to even the old problems. You will be underpaid for the amount of work you do since they are short staffed every weekend. The training is completely non-existent and new hires so often feel overwhelmed and confused. The communication between the teams themselves and between the teams and corporate is terrible. This company has no introspection and believe the problems lie with the new hires when corporate and management is to blame. There is no room for growth as a vet tech because you are in survival mode every weekend and do damage control. 

Days working for this company are long and heaven forbid you encounter problems with the vans (which you will I promise you) you're pretty much left on your own. Management constantly cuts corners on van maintenance, increasing workplace danger tenfold. Constant promises of stock ended up going unfulfilled leading to angry customers. Valid complaints about management are brushed under the rug. They are 100% willing to lie to you about job security and your future in this company. Notice how there's no previous reviews? They deleted their initial posting to hide their solid 1.5 star rating. Be careful when you're alone with management. They will either harass you or make a mistake that they will blame on you rather than take responsibility for their own actions.

Good luck with your New Jersey team, though! I'm sure you've already grabbed some gullible people you can exploit for all they're worth.

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