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

Technical manager in a food factory, mon to Friday, two horses on diy (no services) I get up early and start work early so I can keep my evenings
 
Corporate lawyer - work for a big law firm headquartered in the City. Have spent last 3 years abroad so get to have most of the summer off whilst I move back. Have agreed in principle a slightly more flexible working arrangement when I go back .. heres hoping it works as when on a big transaction it is fairly all consuming.
 
Gosh, some of you lot manage to keep yourselves busy!
I am student currently studying Geography. When I am not at uni, which is quite often, I work at a point to point yard in the morning, and then work in a pub some lunch times, most weekend and to god knows what time at night. I don't enjoy it, and I want a job that pays (at least) the minimum wage!!
 
Civil servant, working in the City & sorting out pension disputes.

I am also about to be an apprentice plasterer! O/h is an entemologist/field biologist in the week & a master plasterer eves & w'ends, & I'm going to start learning some of the 'grunt' work so that he is freed up for the clever stuff.

Horses live at home, thank goodness...but there never seems to be quite enough money, hence the extra ocupations!
 
I'm a dialysis nurse working 23hrs a week. I have to work every fri and sat night shift as my hubby works away mon - fri and we have no childcare so I work when he's home. That's fine at the mo but when I get going with my mare and want to compete, I'll have to work my holidays out around shows I want to do.

Horses are at home though and love having my days free. Only see my hubby for a short time too which sometimes works best! Lol!
 
Myself and OH own/run an IT company in Birmingham city center, we specialise in the education sector.

Horse is on full livery about 20mins drive away, as unfortunately I am either out on the road visiting sites or in the office with every one wanting a part of me! But there are the odd times in the weeks when i say 'stuff it' and head out to enjoy the weather!
 
Digital executive for an advertising company (job title sounds more important than it is)
Work long hours for rubbish pay at the moment, it is very hard to juggle work horse and home.
I either get up at 5 and do horse before work or go after work. Pay for him to be done one day a week so that I can have a day off.
Have to be quite disciplined to keep him in consistent work but if he has more than one day off or if I am very slack he will be very naughty so that's pretty good motivation to get on with it. That being said I have been rubbish this week lunged yesterday and free schooled the day before.
 
Riding/competing dressage horses, charity spokeswoman, and dressage committee member. Sounds nice, but days are usually 6am til 11pm, and I spend more time with other peoples horses than my own.
 
Work for the Manchester office on an Investment Bank managing investments in commerical property. A couple of years ago i managed to negotiate more flexible working hours (i.e. trying to leave before 6 every day!) which has helped with the horses. We have also just bought a business closer to my home which means i have less of a commute so am even managing to fit in riding in the morning!
 
Im a fully qualified bookkeeper and work a 40hr a week full time job. I also teach (dressage) evenings and weekends, ride for other people and do freelance bookkeeping (i have 6 clients i do monthly work for at the moment). My mare is on part livery (due to foal shortly) - the yard do everything apart from grooming/riding (when she was in work), and my 3yr old is on grass livery at the same yard and they check him twice a day and feed him once a day/change rugs if required. I normally go to the yard around 4 times a week - 3 during the week and once on the weekend but at the moment im going up every night as i need to check on my mare and i must admit im finding it really hard to fit everything in.

I also go to the gym 3 times a week and try and do a 6-8 mile run once a week aswell :D

I have an interview next week for a trainee accountant position to do ACA which is what i really want to do, so am keeping my fingers crossed for that.

I have absolulty no disposable income at all and do struggle financially but i could never sell my horses and im very happy with my life - money isnt everything although i wouldnt mind some more!! Obviously i dont compete at the moment but am hoping to get a better paid job (mine pays an absolute pittance) so once my mare is back in work i can compete her over the winter (dressage). The foal is for sale aswell, but the money from the sale is going to my mum (unless i win the lottery then the foal will be kept!!) :D
 
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Im an Estate Agent which I really enjoy and pays really well so I can afford a good lifestyle, horses, shows, dog, social life etc. I would love to work with horses but it doesnt pay well enough :(
 
Photographic manager - co-ordinate photography for Historic Scotland, including photography of over 330 historic sites that are in our care, as well as press calls, events, education visits, publications, magazines and TV work.

Love the job, hate the fact I live 60+ miles away from the office. Job very specialised and opportunities for such jobs outside London are like rocking horse poo!

Horses normally at home, but just in the process of moving to new house and my yard still to be built so my four horses temporarily in DIY livery (4 miles away). I do horses in the morning (ride one, maybe two if I get the later train) before going to work, then do horses in the evening when I get back (ride who hasn't been ridden in the morning). OH works from home so turns out/brings them in for me and deals with farrier/vet, etc so that is a huge help.
 
Am a laywer. Can manage a bit of flexibility for lessons but main struggle is weekday shows which are generally okay for me but difficult for OH with his job. That said have had horse competed for me at weekday shows when I have been unable to go due to meetings. Horse has been in competition yard with me doing nothing other than competing but is now on part livery. Have had years of full time jobs, studying and DIY livery in the past and do sometimes wonder how I ever had the time.
 
Im a nurse, i work in paediatric palliative care 2x12.5 hr shifts in a childrens hospice.
While i love my job i like only working 2 days out of the week as i can spend a lot of time with my horses (3). Ive also got my grooms diploma and my level 2 equestrian sports coach cert .
My guys r on diy livery at a nice small yard 10 mins from home
 
I'm a Dementia Advisor. Work a 45 hour week, Monday-Friday. Have my horses on DIY livery. Thank god they're living out now, that's all I can say!!
 
I'm a corporate actions auditor for an investment bank...
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I hear you all say?! ;) Well yes, I'd agree, but I work to live rather than living to work! :p

Hopalong is on assisted DIY livery about 3miles from home. She lives out 24/7 through the summer (ie now, yay!) and in the winter I go there morning and evening out the way to/from work. YO is absolutely lovely and turn out/in is included in my livery plus holding for vet/farrier etc, which makes life much easier for me. I work 10-6 to a) avoid the worst of rush hour (and therefore save my already high blood pressure... and b) not have to get up at crack of dawn in the winter to go muck out. :) (plus I'd tend to have to work until 6pm anyway due to my work schedule so it saves on overtime!)

I actually have a degree in Chemical Engineering, but fell into the world of finance through wanting to stay in the Edinburgh area instead of going up to Aberdeen.

I would love to do something different- working with animals likely- but I just can't afford the pay drop it would involve. :( Should have stuck with the original plan of vet med but wanted to leave high school after 5th year too badly!

What a real variety of jobs we all have. :)
 
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I'm a part-time housekeeper. For 30 years I worked 9-5 in an office then two years ago, my OH decided he didn't want to be a golf course manager any more and found us a lovely live-in job for two here in beautiful Shropshire. We live on a 100 acre estate in a gorgeous 2-bed converted coach house and he works full-time as the gardener. I work 10 hours a week over Mon, Weds & Friday mornings so have LOADS of spare time for my two boys. Sure, we're not rich financially but our quality of life is second to none. I also work 3 evenings shifts a week in the local pub to supplement my income but that doesn't impede into my horsey time. Life is GOOD :)
 
I'm a analyst for a Stockbroker/Wealth provider. I work with databases and spreadsheets all day :D

Work about 40 - 45 hours a week. Horse is on assisted DIY (i.e. he's fed and turned out for me in the morning but I'm up every day mucking out) I do have to travel to London to work a day or so a month so I'm lucky that my yard offers full livery.

I don't mind the job - I'm good at it, it pays well and it's not so stressful that in interferes with my private life/time with the pony!
 
Chartered Accountant and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. Good pay, reasonable hours. Horse on part livery 30 minutes away. We work a 9-day fortnight so I get every other Friday off which is great for lessons/farrier/vet visits. DIY on weekends but due to increasing fuel prices it now costs me £10 a round trip, so I now ask the yeard to bring him in most weekends (I ride/muck out/prepare feeds in the mornings).

I wanted to work with horses but knew the money would never be any good, so my parents kindly paid for school fees rather than fancy ponies (my choice), and now I support my own fancy pony thanks to the education I had :D

I do love my job, except we're a bit quiet at the moment - not many people going bust!
 
Another City lawyer here. Aren't we all coming out of the woodwork! Horse is on full livery and is 40 mins from where I live, so no way I could get there on any regular basis to muck out/bring in. Hours can be dreadful (I've been known to come in at 9.30am one day and leave at 4pm the following day, having had a hour's sleep on my office floor). But that is definitely the exception rather than the rule and the vast majority of the time, I can happily go and ride before work.
 
I'm a teaching assistant in a secondary school. The pay is awful but the hours and holidays help with keeping horses. However, we also make and sell small bale haylage so my summer involves lots of bale hauling. I'm lucky as I keep my horses at home.
 
Gosh! Some high powered jobs!!

I work in rehabilitation - I work in a registered psychiatric unit, but we aren't that scary!! Mainly I work with people who have had an acquired brain injury, and present with severe challenging behaviour.

I am looking to move back into the health promotion area, but I am very happy doing what I'm doing - although I might change my mind later today....!

Plus side is we work 12 1/2 hr days, so next month I am working 13 days, and off for 17 days!! Lots of pony time!
 
I work for a cultural education charity, sending young disadvantaged people abroad on work experience, funded by the EU - pay not v good, but on flexitime, and my boss has horses too so is very understanding when I need to rush off for the farrier/vet etc
 
Im a neuroscientist. :D I finished my PhD in psychiatric genetics last year and am currently working as a research associate in a University research lab studying Autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, although my main specialism is schizophrenia (just not many jobs around when I was looking).
Pay is reasonable (although not as much as you would imagine after 8 years of studying!) and I work 'academic hours' (ie as long as the work gets done in the required time frame we're not fussy when you turn up/leave ;) although my hours tend to be 8-4 at the moment) but Id rather be outside than stuck in a lab all day!

Im another one who had planned on doing vet med but I spent too much time faffing about with horses when I was at school and failed to get the 5 A's I was predicted and couldnt afford to do it as a second degree. However, had I gone to do veterinary I would never have ended up studying in St Andrews and would never have met my current horse (who I bought a week after finishing my undergrad!) so its not all bad ;)

Currently trying to get out of the lab and into a more clinical setting, only time will tell :D
 
I work for a large financial company mainly training and supporting people in the call centre. It's not the greatest job in the world, and pays ok, but I am looking for a change currently ;)
 
I am a quantity surveyor - accountant/lsolicitor type on a building site. Although dont get out on site as much as I would like.

I also work in my local pub for a few hours on a Sat eve.

Have two horses - one on livery at local yard, one currently with a pro to be evented. Does make a nice change only having to ride one twice a week (shes 3), but skint atm as pro-charges are not cheap!
 
I'm an Operations Director for both a National Lighting Maintenance Co and an electrical testing Co. Have somehow acquired HR responsibilities too hence currently into my 4th day interviewing for the Help Desk I oversee :( (brain is no longer working). Just on a quick break day dreaming about Badders before I start again :D
 
Im an Electronics Engineer, i have a small company which we run from home. We've worked for many big companys from Boot's to the RAF programming there industrial computers PLC's. Lot's of traveling, long hours & stress at times but i do have flexability.

It's great since we moved here as we have a seperate premisis in which we work out of, plus my views are of my horses in the fields.
 
I'm an ruminant nutritionist. I work on the technical desk at a ruminant feed mill. I formulate the rations, write technical articles for the press and provide technical support for farmers, vets, sales reps etc. I also get to go to lots of conferences and training days all over the country and often abroad. Been here a year now after completing my degree in animal science and love it.

I have my horse on DIY livery but have to pay someone to look after her when I am away with work. I event up to novice level, aim to do 1 event a month but horse is currently off work so not doing much. I found it impossible to keep her going properly over winter as didn't have any lights on the menage and don't get back from work till gone 6 but manage ok in the summer.
 
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