So call me nosey... but what do you all do for a living?

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Hi everyone!.
So... whenever I'm at an event I'm always crippled with curiosity as to what everyone does. How you juggle work and competing etc. So humour me?
I'm a nurse, I work 12 1/2 hour shifts so get plenty of days off, but i have to do nights, bank hols and weekends. I have my horse on DIY livery but pay someone to see to him when I can't. It's a struggle to keep him in consistent work sometimes.
Tell me, tell me!!!!
 
I train dolphins. :cool:

























Not really, would be easier than horses though I reckon! Do you think they'd event?
 
im a student, part loan on DIY although she is usually done (by a friend! :D lucky me!!) when i get there so i only tend to ride, feed, rug etc so its fairly easy for me, although dont compete much due to lack of money :(
 
i work part-time, from home, in sales, selling Industrial Turbo Dryers for an American company, and i love it, i get such a buzz from it. the rest of the time is devoted to looking after my horses, dogs, ducks, chickens, goose, guinea fowl etc... but I don't do the horses to make money, they are my pleasure. very lucky not to have any pressure in the horse dept other than what i put on myself. :) :) :)
 
Accountant - but only work 2 or 3 days a week. Years of studying and not going out are now benefiting me as I can earn enough to keep me, 3 kids and a horse.

It's still a juggling act but easier now the kids are in their early teens & I only compete at 3' ODE's but try to ride 5 or 6 days a week. Horse is on DIY livery and out as much as possible.
 
Home care but only work evenings so days off and no nights, however im good at coverin shifts at short notice during the day, which means that i start late and finish early then they cover my evening shift. You dont know when you will always be working (I can say no ) but it works for me
 
I work for my partner who runs an online business and a farm. So i just roll out of the door in the morning and im in work, I also help with the Affiliate marketing side and I do the accounts. My ponies live here too :)
 
I have a small livery yard where I also do a bit of teaching and schooling for people. On top of that I also work at a yard locally each morning, helping someone who produces ex-racers into high goal polo ponies, and also has a few show horses and showjumpers. She also trains me on my own horses, she's such a total legend to work for. So a lot of variety! I love it but sometimes I really yearn for a weekend where I dont have to look at a horse! From January to March I also sit up at nights at a local thoroughbred stud waiting forever for the mares to foal :-)
 
TA in English Department of secondary school (soon doing course for HLTA) hard work love it - and coming home to horses is a great way to unwind- lucky as the horses are in the field opposite the house or in the field down the lane - share with someone else who is brilliant help
 
kerilli said:
i work part-time, from home, in sales, selling Industrial Turbo Dryers for an American company, and i love it, i get such a buzz from it. the rest of the time is devoted to looking after my horses, dogs, ducks, chickens, goose, guinea fowl etc... but I don't do the horses to make money, they are my pleasure. very lucky not to have any pressure in the horse dept other than what i put on myself. :) :) :)
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Yea I've stopped with the pressure thing. I used to be influenced by my "professional rider" friends. I now do things at my pace and it's way more fun. My job is crazy busy, stressful and all consuming when I'm there so I very much have my horse competing as a hobby now.
 
seabsicuit2 said:
I have a small livery yard where I also do a bit of teaching and schooling for people. On top of that I also work at a yard locally each morning, helping someone who produces ex-racers into high goal polo ponies, and also has a few show horses and showjumpers. She also trains me on my own horses, she's such a total legend to work for. So a lot of variety! I love it but sometimes I really yearn for a weekend where I dont have to look at a horse! From January to March I also sit up at nights at a local thoroughbred stud waiting forever for the mares to foal :-)
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Sounds like heaven on a stick to me!
 
I have a smallholding with my hubby so have the horses at home. I work full time as a pharmaceutical rep for a veterinary drug company covering Scotland (and a little bit of England) it is alot of driving (about 1000 miles a week). I am now looking to move back into Veterinary Nursing, to be able to allow me to ride my horse during the week as this rarely happens at the moment - I also haven't started eventing this year yet due to being away so much.

I can't complain though as its well paid and if i move back to nursing, I will start having to pick and choose events/lessons as I will have less disposable income.

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I'm a civil servant :D
Plenty holidays and I also work flexi-time so I sometimes ride/muck out before work or leave early to catch the last of the day light. My horse was on full livery but since I sold him last year I'm sharing one who is on full livery and one who is DIY. Neither of them are ridden by their owners so I have free rein to what I like with them however I'm shyte so I don't compete :D
 
Currently a postgraduate student, but my last ever exams are in a fortnight, so then I have to try and get a proper job as a trainee solicitor!
 
I sold my soul to the corporate devil.. :( I used to work with horses but then caught the eventing bug and decided I had to get a "proper job" (my parents words!)
Started in a saddlery 7 yrs ago and am now working as Sales Support for a global telecommunications company.. Give it another year I will probably be doing sales myself. To be fair, the money is good, the job ain't that bad and I work with a good bunch of people! Mega plus is I get weekends all to myself and my horses come first :)
 
I am a Financial Controller for a start up company so currently very full time and demanding but I love it! I spent years working for big corporates so being in a small rapidly growing company is refreshing although I took a significant pay cut (still good money though;)) to get a role that whilst challenging has reduced my commute from 3-4+ hours a day to more like 40 mins :) I hope in a year or so that things will have calmed down a bit so that I can get back to riding and competing - before I took the job I sold one and put one on loan so I am currently only playing a supporting role to the lovely lady who has J on loan.
 
I have a truly exciting job - an accountant who works for a bank ;) (not as dull as it sounds as I work in a particularly interesting part!). I work full time, though I try to keep that to about 40 hours a week max. I'm fairly lucky as I'm well paid, work from home once a week, and my bosses have been ace recently about letting me look after a very poorly horse.

Ideally I'd work for myself though, as they haven't quite come round to my suggestion of working split shifts, to allow me daylight to ride in winter. :rolleyes:

Horses are at home, which is VERY hard work and restricting with a FT job as well - there's no back up if the **** hits the fan at work, but I have to get home as it's snowing and the horses will have run out of hay. I'm always juggling and letting someone down. I haven't done much competing recently, which is nothing to do with no time to compete, but more that I don't have anywhere to ride at home (hacking only)so it's very hard to get them ready to go out and about. Still, it's better than livery, absolutely :)
 
I work in sales as an account and business development exec for a global corporate travel management company. The industry is good- the discout flights and holidays are fab!- and the people are great. Full time, so pay quite reasonable- could always be better of course!! Shame company has driven me round the twist....

Horse on diy, compete at weekends, ride every night. I do muck out before work, but one or sometimes two days a week my very generous partner gets up and does her to give me an extra 40mins kip!

Desperate to move into pharma or medical sales though now- that's where my degree and back ground lie! Arctic fox- how dis you get into vet med sales!? I'm finding vacancies in that sector very thin on the ground!
 
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