When I was a young adult before marriage and kids, I was training to be a VN 🔺️ A degree qualification had just been created the year before so I opted to qualify that way. All my practicals took place in a veterinary hospital and we were expected to be a uni by day, hospital in the evenings and revise in what little free time we had. This was all unpaid with the exception of student loan/grant and it was impossible to have anything other than a weekend job. The hospital was busy, constant influx of RTA and other emergency patients so we always had to be ready with the crash trolley and mentally making note of how to write that procedure up and get it signed off by the head nurse or vet. The training paperwork is insane. As the degree progress you can specialise a little or take further qualifications to specialise which really fuelled my love for lagomorphs
However I digress, looking back I think I must have worked close on 100 weeks. It was literally a case of roll out of bed, get washed, dressed, snack brekkie and on the bus to campus. Could relax/eat more during breaks before end of 'school' day and then it was another bus to the hospital, a long evening shift w/ breaks and an 8pm finish if I was lucky before busing it back to my wee flat. I could not often be bothered to cook. Micro noodles or rice with a quick peanut satay and some pre chopped veg chucked in was the best I could do. When I graduated, I was offered a full time position at the hospital which I took as I loved the team but it also meant doing night shifts. It was really manic back then and we were serving a major city's emergency cases a lot of the time. Sometimes it's a dangerous job too, not just because of the animals but owners can be aggressive. We had special consult rooms with two way auto lockable doors in case staff needed to leave in a hurry. You also see a lot of really sad cases. It's not an easy job, burnout is almost guaranteed, staff turnover is high and suicide rates are incredibly high among vets
I did it for a few years and then just couldn't face it anymore so moved on to a small private practice with a slower pace. I worked until I had my last child who was born with a rare condition and resultant disabilities so now I'm a full time carer. Now that is a 24/7 job and sleep can be elusive. I don't think my experience is unique either, there are people country wide who work 100 weeks until burnout occurs and a change of pace is required but it really boils my slow cooker tea that Jack claims she is just hard working. I don't think she has ever done an honest day's work in her life. I can't remember it exactly but I believe that during one of the lockdowns, she argued with a nurse on Twitter that she, Jack, was more exhausted and harder working.