Irishbabygirl
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Just to add, that also included everything for the horse and all bills and meals for you!
over worked & underpaid?
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Orangehorse
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I thought everyone had to have a contract of employment, setting out hours of work, etc.
Pale Rider
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People seem to be costing a stable, some straw and hay at stupid money, when allowing staff to keep their horse on the yard. Particularly, when they are doing the work themselves.
You either say it's worth what it costs, or the profit you would have made on that place. When people charge, eg. 100 for full livery, the profit is obvious a lot less, that figure is the one that should be costed in wages.
You either say it's worth what it costs, or the profit you would have made on that place. When people charge, eg. 100 for full livery, the profit is obvious a lot less, that figure is the one that should be costed in wages.
Copperpot
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You sound the same as a girl I know who works at a yard. She gets to keep her horse on DIY livery there and gets a room in the main house. She works incredibly hard and long hours for £100 a week.
It has to be a job of love! The financial rewards are just not there. Saying that it must be lovely to have a job you actually enjoy doing.
It has to be a job of love! The financial rewards are just not there. Saying that it must be lovely to have a job you actually enjoy doing.
Caol Ila
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My one and only stint as a working student put me well off it. I did it for two months between my first and second year of uni. I had free accommodation and free stabling for my horse (in the "pleb" stalls with the other working student's horse -- two temporary stables in the indoor arena). No stipend, though, so in spite of me working twelve hour days, I still had to get support from my parents in order to eat.
I worked from 6:30am to 6:30pm, six days per week with an hour break for lunch. The horses were far too posh for all day turnout, but he had two paddocks and each horse would get an hour a couple times per week in the paddock. So I had to feed, water, clean stalls twice per day, lead horses in and out from the paddocks, tack up horses for the trainer to ride, untack and cool out the horses the trainer had ridden, ride two or three green horses the trainer didn't want to ride, and ride my horse. All of the trainer's horses were 17+hh of warmblood with poor ground manners, so tacking them up, leading them, etc. was always hard work.
By the end of that summer, I was so fed up with equines that I didn't even want to look at my poor horse.
I worked from 6:30am to 6:30pm, six days per week with an hour break for lunch. The horses were far too posh for all day turnout, but he had two paddocks and each horse would get an hour a couple times per week in the paddock. So I had to feed, water, clean stalls twice per day, lead horses in and out from the paddocks, tack up horses for the trainer to ride, untack and cool out the horses the trainer had ridden, ride two or three green horses the trainer didn't want to ride, and ride my horse. All of the trainer's horses were 17+hh of warmblood with poor ground manners, so tacking them up, leading them, etc. was always hard work.
By the end of that summer, I was so fed up with equines that I didn't even want to look at my poor horse.
millies
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Thanks for the replies 
Definatly going to speak to the boss about a contract to outline working hours and where I stand with keeping mine in livery there before I start asking for a rise then .
Definatly going to speak to the boss about a contract to outline working hours and where I stand with keeping mine in livery there before I start asking for a rise then .