Have I done the right thing?

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Paint it Lucky

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At the end of this week I finish my equine degree, qualifying me to do all sorts of things with horses at a fairly advanced level. So what am I doing? Going back home to the yard I have helped at since I was 12 to work! I tell myself this is only for the summer (I miss home and want to do all the local shows there and pony club camp as this is probably the last year I'll be able to do it). Yet I'm worried that once I'm back there it will be very hard to leave again! I love working there but it is only a riding school/livery yard where everything is fairly routine without much scope for progression. I'd really like to work somewhere where I can ride lots, bringing on horses and competing, hopefully at a high level one day, but this is never going to happen at this yard. Do you think it's wrong of me to go back there when I only plan to leave for 'something better' in a few months time? I really get on well with the people there as well but I don't really want to work there for the rest of my life and I know my parents (who paid for me to do a degree) would kill me if I did! What do you think I should do?
 
Most of my friends (im doing an equine degree too) are going back home to their local yards to work at for a few months. I don't think its a bad thing. Just go home and enjoy it for a couple of months, but while you're doing this prehaps look at applying for jobs you like the look of. Hope this helps
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Also remember you must do something that you enjoy and makes you happy! Not your parents.
 
ooh a very hard decision. I think that sometimes you need to leave behind what you know for new and exciting things. I know just how you feel cos im currently in the process of planning to move down to berkshire from yorkshire and its been very difficult to make the final decision. I think if you go back you may find it hard to leave again and you've worked so hard for your degree. On the other hand, it could be a good stop-gap working there until you find the job you really want (and remember, that could take time). After so much time away from home, i would consider going back and working at the yard you know until you find your dream job. But if you were to go home, you must promise yourself to start looking for the new job as soon as you get home. With regards to the yard and leaving in a few months, you must remember that you've got to look out for yourself in this world and think about you (when it comes to work i mean!) I have learnt through experience that nobody really seems to have loyalty when it comes to the workplace and anyway, im sure thy will understand your position and that you wont want to stay there forever. If i were you, start looking for your dream job now, but in the mean time, you can always go home.
 
Go back, take a break while working at the yard, let your degree sink in and think deeply about what you want to do. It will keep you busy while your persue you real dreams which may or may not come quickly. Just be sure you are allowing yourself plenty of freedom and time to hunt for the "good job"
while working there.
If you are up front with the old yard about your goals I would hope they would support you in this effort and be understanding when it is time fro you to move on.

best of luck!


Another thing....if those are your drawings do NOT make the mistake I did! no matter what you do in life keep up with your art and drawing! it is one thing I regret never doing anymore . Not even confident I would still "have it" if I tried to pick it up again
 
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At the end of this week I finish my equine degree, qualifying me to do all sorts of things with horses at a fairly advanced level.

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As I am forever interested in equine degrees, can you tell me what you are qualified to do at advanced levels with horses please
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Thanks for all your advice, yes JadeWisc they are my drawings, I'd really like to do them as a career too!

Weezy I could now apply to work as a nutritionist, research scientist (in lots of things, such as exercise physiology), behaviourist, vet nurse, a welfare type job, lecturer of people!, or I could take a further course to be a physio or vet, lots of things really, we have studied just about everything to do with horses mostly in great detail, I certainly know loads more than I did 3 years ago now and it makes me look at all aspects of keeping horses completely differently. I'd say it is worth doing, and you also meet horsie people with many different experiences, opinions and from different disciplines then I would otherwise, so it certainly broadens your horizons!
 
Thanks for answering that, I know a lot of people would have thought it was a *snigger snigger* question, but I am honestly interested in knowing what one comes out with after studying equine degrees
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(can you tell I am old!)
 
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