How many of you chose a job that made/makes your horsey commitments easier?

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As the title really, I started my current job late last year as a stop gap measure after leaving my last long term employer. It all started when my neighbour had a heart bypass, her husband died and then she got cancer all in the space of 6 months. It made me realise you only get once chance and I wanted to spend my life doing more of the things I enjoyed, rather than regularly staying late and being a complete workaholic stress head. :o

This "started off as a stop gap job" is easy, too easy because I'm bored out of my mind. :( However, the OH has agreed I can have a horse in 2 years with the possibility of going part time :D Since i've been with this company, I have had more me time outside of work, I've been able to do more sport and am home in 10 mins, 15 with traffic!! The money isn't great but because I don't have far to travel it all balances out.

I know I'm going to have a horse in 2 years and this job is ideal for that, it'd take me 25 mins to get to the yard straight from work, so on paper it's a no brainer. But 2 years is a long time and you spend 1/3 of your life at work!

What I want to know is how many of you would do or currently do a job where your brain trickles out of your ear daily if you could afford it and it gave/gives you more time to be with your horse/horses and time to do the other things you wanted to do.

I don't want to get another busier job and regret it when the horse buying time comes. I've been applying for busier jobs left right and centre but haven't had any bites so I'm wondering if this is a sign,.....

Fruit loaf and butter for all who got this far :o
 
I turend down a job offer last year even though the money was better as the hours didn't suit riding as much as the job I am in now ;)
 
One of the reasons I stayed in this job is the yard is 5 mins down the road - it takes 10 mins to walk there! When I sell the pony I'm moving the horse to a yard where I don't need to be there so often so I'll be able to get a better job :)
 
I worked from home for myself for about 8 years making rosettes, which fitted in nicely with a small child and horses - until the business got too big and I caught myself saying "I can't, I haven't got time, I have to work" once too often. So I gave that up for the sake of my sanity.

Now, I occasionally work as a nanny - starting at 6.30am finish at 3pm, but not in the winter, with maybe 20 horses here I'd be up at 4am doing them first - forget that.

I have Boarders in which means I am at home all the time, however, somedays I find myself running around so much that I still don't have time for my own horses. I buy and sell youngsters too so that takes quite a chunk of time, also horse/farm sit locally which means I can spend two or three hours away from here, again, my own horses fit in as and when.

It isn't all sunshine and roses working at home - sometimes I would love a 9-5 job where I knew how much time I had for myself.
 
I have had to turn down various jobs which meant travelling to EMEA a lot because dogs and horses do not fit around that!.
 
I have a job that suits the commute to and from the stables and pays well so that I can afford the horses.
If I didnt have horses I wouldnt have this job I would do something that pays less but I enjoyed more but the money I earn allows me to pay for what I love the most.
 
I still have the job I've got purely to keep my horse. When I was a child I certainly didn't aspire to work in an office! It's not boring, I'm busy everyday (still find 5 mins for HHO here and there though!) and it does take brain power but the industry we work in is of no interest to me. The 2 reasons I am still here is because the pay means I can afford to keep my horse and I can adjust my hours to fit around my horse.
I would deffo choose a lower paid job that I enjoyed more if I could afford to!
 
For the past 16 years I have worked somewhere which allows me to work afternoons/evenings in an office.

This means that I can ride every day if I want to, even in the winter when it's dark so early.

I would never , by choice, go back to working nine to five.
 
Thanks to everyone who has shared so far, the more involved I become in the horsey world the less answers to questions like this surprise me!! I am late to riding (started last year at 31) and after these replies I'm more inclined to make this job a keeper knowing I'll have a horse soon.

I'm lucky enough that my hubby earns way more than me otherwise I'd be buggered, it all goes into the same pot but I have been told on several occasions by him that I'm high maintenance; Not in the Jordan high maintenance way but more because I'm always doing something and my "somethings" always cost tons more than his :rolleyes::o
 
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