Personal Essay: The Career of a Dairy Nutritionist

📌Category: Business, Career, Health, Life, Medicine, Myself
📌Words: 932
📌Pages: 4
📌Published: 03 April 2022

The career I have chosen to do after high school is a dairy nutritionist. A dairy nutritionist develops a feeding program and monitors the condition of dairy cattle to ensure that production goals are met. To do so, I will go to college and study animal science and will need a bachelor's degree. I would also need a certification in dairy management. I’m choosing this career because I have always dealt with cattle, and it has been my lifestyle ever since I was a little girl. The school that I go to is Blackfoot High School. The school did not have an impact on me to choose this career. I’m glad that I get to graduate from Blackfoot High School. But, to be totally honest, I never enjoyed my time here at Blackfoot High School. I could tolerate it but I definitely would have rather been at home working, and work at home isn’t all that fun. The courses they did offer for Ag were not bad. The teacher, Cameron Flaming, made the classes fun and easy to learn in, but most of those classes were about farming which was not really helpful to me because I don't want to be a farmer. I didn’t mind learning about farming, but I would have rather learned about birth weights in cattle and stuff like that. Cameron also offered a course about equine science. It was a very interesting class, but yet again it wasn’t the class I needed for my future career. Outside of school is where I really learned about what I wanted to do with my future career. Growing up, my family always had livestock. It was our lifestyle. Not only having our own cows made an impact on me. My job that I got at the beginning of my junior year at Animal Health Clinic also had an impact on me. Working there helped me understand further into large animals. Going into the summer of that year, I got to be a vet tech. With that I got to do many things with large animals and help the Doctors with their surgeries, and many other things. Knowing how to Bangs vaccinate heifers, Semen Test bulls, clean and wrap lacerations, mainline livestock, look at x-rays, etc. made me realize how much I really enjoyed and would like to do it my whole life. I wanted to further my career doing things like that, not necessarily being a veterinarian or a tech though just because it is very time-consuming, and I wouldn't have time for a lot of other things in my life that I enjoy doing. Being able to do what I love is a huge deal to me and being a dairy nutritionist is just that because herd health is just as important as any other thing. I would also have time to do other things in my life that are also important to me. Education from studying animal science will also help me care for my own cattle and understand more about cattle and not just nutrition. I also rodeo. Rodeo has helped me out in life a lot. It brings me happiness, and I really do enjoy doing it. The events that I do are team rope, breakaway, and barrel race. I have been touring many colleges and got many offers to rodeo for them and further my education with multiple different schools. I finally decided on the school I wanted to rodeo for and further my education, and it is Central Wyoming College. When I toured CWC it was great. The school wasn't big, which is good for me so I can get around and find my classes pretty easy. I also practiced with the rodeo team and it went great. I got along with the coach and the team mates well. The rodeo coach, Andrew Schrock, offered me a full ride scholarship. With the full ride scholarship, if I had a 3.5 GPA or higher, it would add another $5670.00. At this point, I wasn't meeting the 3.5 goal. I was living with my mom at the time, so she was the first one to know about the scholarship I got offered. She understood that I was struggling but not as much as I was actually in school and when she saw my grades she told me, “Do better. I know you can. I am always here for you if you need help.” I told her I would, but it just continued to be tough to get out of bed and go to school because, to be honest, I hate it there. So finally I talked to my dad about it and he was happy for me until I told him I didn't have a 3.5 GPA. He looked at me almost as if I was joking because I have always been at a 3.5 or higher. I talked to him about why I wasn’t meeting the goal. It was because I just really didn’t try and never wanted to be at school. It was hard for me to get up in the morning. I only looked forward to the end of the day when school was over, so the whole day was dreadful. I mentioned before that I didn’t enjoy school. My dad didn’t realize how much I hated it until he saw how my grades slowly went down. He told me, “Don’t give up now. One day you will thank yourself for never giving up.” I agreed and told myself that I needed to do better. I started showing up more often and turning all my assignments in on time. At the end of the 2nd trimester of senior year, I had got all my grades up, and I had got the best GPA I have ever had; it was a 4.0. I was super proud of myself and so were my parents. I will continue to show up and participate in my classes through my last trimester of school.

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