Careers after working with horses

[PuzzlePiece]

Just wondering what jobs have people ended up doing when the time comes to stop working with horses.
Many thanks in advance

 

[Silmarillion]

I only worked with horses for a few years, but I have a horsey degree. I now work in the banking team in a pension company. I'm not sure how horses led me to that, really.

 

[Umbongo]

I worked with horses for a few years and have a horsey degree. I am now a small animal trainee veterinary nurse.

 

[cally6008]

Horses up to NVQ Level 2 > Bingo > Newsagent

 

[Equinus]

After 20 years went into business with Mum, catering, then was a house sitter for years and then catering again. Last job was home shopper in major supermarket. Now ansolutely physically knackered and living off the land in Bulgaria! Missing having a horse but not when under feet of snow with daytime temperatures are -16.

 

[EstherYoung]

Civil servant. Where my qualifications in foaling mares and giving enemas are really being utilised...not.

 

[ridefast]

Um at the moment, part time office cleaning, the odd bit of baby sitting, house sitting/dog walking, and teaching 2 little boys to ride, mucking out one morning a week and sitting up with pregnant mares. So not completely horse free. I have previously worked as trainee manager in a pet shop (no pets) it was quite fun

 

[HoofPicker21]

Just wondering what jobs have people ended up doing when the time comes to stop working with horses.
Many thanks in advance

After working in racing and luckily escaping at the right age, Events Manager after doing Business and events degree.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Producing, backing & schooling (own yard) for well over 20 years.

Now for last 10yrs (after the foot & mouth close-down made me discover another life!) > admin Mon-Fri in local company > PA in national co rising to FD's PA > currently 3 days a week with local company.
Org skills from running yard still come into play tho
Still got own yard, still find it peaceful & still an eye opener just going in to do 2 every day, instead of 8 or more

Its still a great feeling after all this time, to be paid for holidays! :cool3:

 

[*Nik*]

I now work in admin for a pensions company. Love the fact that its 8-4, 5 days a week and I am staying ncie and dry in this horrid weather!

 

[LaurenDobson]

After working in racing and luckily escaping at the right age, Events Manager after doing Business and events degree.

Likewise! Escaped racing and now i'm a bookkeeper/trainee accountant!
Love the 9-5 Mon to Fri and having time to enjoy my horse!

 

[Darkwater]

Likewise! Escaped racing and now i'm a bookkeeper/trainee accountant!
Love the 9-5 Mon to Fri and having time to enjoy my horse!

I'm currently in the process of escaping racing and going back to uni..

Slightly terrified to be doing so at 25 but I think if I don't do it now it will be too late!

 

[Cortez]

Still have horses after 30+ years of working as a pro trainer/rider and running a stud farm, but "day job" is now working in film/TV and historical demos and making reproduction items for museums, etc. Horses are a part of our business, but not the main earner. Would never go back to horses full time now (too old and crocked); there is a whole big world outside!

 

[vickyb]

I owned ponies from age 8, worked with horses from 17 -24, then joined the police. I loved working with horses, and would have continued but the wages were so poor I could never have had an independent life away from the family home. Shift work fits pretty well around horses. I had my own and still helped out on occasions at yards where I used to work. I always used to go riding at the end of a night shift at 7am. My colleagues thought it was hilarious me leaving a London police station in jods and boots to go straight to the stables. Wish I had the energy now that I had then.

 

[ivandenisovich10]

Another racing escapee! I'm now a chef for a small intimate catering company. Best decision I ever made.

 

[Laafet]

I'm currently in the process of escaping racing and going back to uni..

Slightly terrified to be doing so at 25 but I think if I don't do it now it will be too late!

I'm 31 and still trying to escape, currently retraining to be an NVQ assessor hoping that I can get a full time job that will pay as much as my stud job does so I can leave working on the yards. I need to be earning well over £20k as renting with a horse and dog in tow and being single so no one to help on bills etc is going to be hard.

 

[*sprinkles*]

I worked with horses for five years. Had to stop due to injury. Now I'm a nurse. TBH I love enjoying my horses for fun these days - I've learned to appreciate them more for the people they are. The horse industry can be very cut-throat.