Well I only have 3 months left until I graduate highschool, and I am taking an (amazing) gap year to live on an animal reserve in Laos. I will be helping with their elephant project mainly, where they have rescued elephants from the logging industry and help to rehabilitate them. (However, I will have interaction with a vast amount of other animals on the reserve.) I will be there for a total of 8 months. Aside from that, I have taken a 6 month animal psychology course. I have spent the last 2 years volunteering with the SPCA, and am lucky enough to have connections with a veterinarian, who has allowed me to shadow her through many surgeries, rehab sessions, exams, and basic interaction. I have 36 months of community service in a veterinary hospital thanks to this experience. I have always had a huge passion for animals, and I know that I want to work with them as a career. I want to take some college courses when I get back from Laos, although I may have to start out getting my two year and see where to go from there. What careers can I consider? A friend recommended field research to me, and it sounds really interesting. I know veterinary work is an obvious suggestion, but I want to consider my options. Also, what is a good field for an animal behaviorist to work in? I am thinking about continuing to work in animal psychology, considering that I will be working with a highly complex an intelligent animal while I am on the reserve. My year off is all expense paid since I will be working, however I will not be making money. I do have some scholarships that I will still be able to utilize when I return.
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I would recommend that you go the full extent and get your veterinarian credentials. You would then have the maximum flexibility to go after job opportunities as they arise. There is really nothing WRONG in going the community-college-to-four-year-university route, but if you're not careful, you could wind up with not all the two-year credits being able to be transferred to the university of your choice. If you have the funding source to take that year off, I don't see why you would even want to bother with the two-year option.
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Honestly with your qualifications (assumng you'll have a decent GPA in college) you should have no problem getting into vet school if that's what you want to do. If you do want to work as an animal behaviorist that is a veterinary specialty and you could get board certified in it after vet school.
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