Why Vet Professionals Underestimate Their Skills Online
Dec 25, 2025
I used to think I didn’t have anything “special” to offer online.
It feels almost strange to admit that now… but back then, I genuinely believed my skills were only valuable inside a clinic, in exam rooms, in the middle of those long, gritty days we all know too well.
That was the world where my value made sense.
Where I could measure it.
Where I understood my place.
The idea that anything I knew could matter beyond those walls felt… unlikely.
It took me a long time to recognise that the things we do automatically as veterinary professionals, the problem-solving, the communication, the ability to hold steady when everything around us is messy or emotional, are exactly the things people online are quietly searching for.
But when you’ve spent years surviving on adrenaline, juggling impossible workloads, and switching between ten problems at once just to get through a shift…
your own strengths stop looking impressive.
They just look like “how things are.”
And that’s how I felt when I started building my first course.
I remember sitting at my laptop, sometimes for only twenty minutes at a time, thinking, Who am I to teach this?
Is this even helpful?
Doesn’t everyone already know this?
Spoiler: they didn’t.
What felt obvious to me was eye-opening to someone else.
What I assumed was “basic” was exactly what another person had spent months trying to figure out.
And that was the moment everything clicked.
Most of us don’t underestimate our skills because we lack them.
We underestimate them because we’ve normalised a level of competence, endurance, and emotional labour that most people never experience.
We’ve been operating at such a high level for so long that we can’t even see the mountain we’ve climbed — or the view we’re standing in.
So if you’re thinking about doing something online, offering support, teaching, creating, guiding — I want you to hear this:
You’re not starting from zero.
You’re starting from years of lived experience, problem-solving, compassion, and resilience, the kind you can’t fake and you can’t shortcut.
The online world doesn’t need you to be perfect.
It just needs you to share what you already know, in the way only you can.
And that is more than enough.