Alicia Bye hit a breaking point about 12 years ago. At age 43, she co-owned two animal clinics in Texas, but by age 44 she had moved to Washington state to work as a wildlife veterinarian at a nonprofit where she earns $50,000, less than half of what she used to make.
Her husband’s career prompted the move, she told Fortune, but so did the concentration of corporate ownership in the industry she loves.
