What do you do for a living?

[happihorse]

and how do you fit your horses in around your job?

 

[Llwyncwn]

Im a YO and should be working now

 

[Tempi]

Im PA/Bookkeeper to a celebrity Hairdresser. I do the bookkeeping for his salons (he has 100% shares in 4 T&G shops) plus he has a property business, a holding company, and offshore company and a boat charter company which i also do the books for.

I work from 845 until 330 everyday and dont take any breaks so i can go at 330.

I have 2 competition horses (dressage - altho my mare is now in foal) both on DIY Livery. I get up at 6am every morning in the week to do them. I get home by 7am. I then get ready for work, make lunch, have breakfast and walk to work (20min walk).

I get hom at 345 then get to the yard by 4. Ride both - my main horse for around an hr and my in-foal mare for about 20mins in the school or an hrs hack if i have time. I generally get home around 7pm in the evenings. Mum helps me do evening stables as otherwise id be there forever!!

Once home i have tea, have a shower and do my coursework - im doing an OU course in Advanced Computerised Bookkeeping and Payroll (all to do with my job).

Phew........makes me exhausted reading all that!!!

 

[Luckylocalian]

I am a solicitor in the city and I have NO idea how I fit it in - everything suffers!

 

[bex1984]

I am an admin person/PA/recruiter/general office dogsbody! I start work at 8:30am and finish at 4:30pm, I guess I'm very lucky because I never have to work overtime. I go straight from work to the yard and get home about 7:30pm. In the winter I get to the yard at about 7:15am to turn out and make a start on mucking out, and then go straight from work to there.

 

[LouHardwick]

I am a sales manager for a large events company for the FTSE 250 Companies- generally get to work at 7.45 am and work till 6.00pm- do my horses b4 work at 5am and straight after- mine are on DIY at my firends private yard.and really dont know how I get it all in one day.
Job is stressful but pays for my horses

 

[Baggybreeches]

I am a sales consultant or a blue chip company, the pay isnt great but I do the job for the flexibility (read skiving) and the work life balance. We are quite heavily comission oriented but it means if you work hard you earn lots, and the incentives etc are all excellent.
A lot of people in my company have horses so they are pretty cool about getting to work later or working from home.

 

[xxcharlottexx]

Im a student. Just finished A-Levels so have pleantly of time for the horse as im doing nothing

Well Im working at a hotel brasserie/restaurant 3 times a weeks. But its only from 6pm-11:30/12am so still got pleantly of time for riding and playing with the horses during the day even when i am working

 

[vanessahook]

I am a case worker for a criminal solicitors. My hours are 9-5 and i try to stick to this!! My horse is only 15 mins from work and at the minute she is on a sabbatical so out at grass. Im actually enjoying getting home before 8pm! As i am sharing the field with my best friend there are actually days when i can go straight home and leave things to her, what a luxury!

 

[GoJo]

Accountant for a manufacturing firm.
work from 8 until 4.30 with no overtime or weekends so get to ride most evenings.

 

[WelshRareBit]

I am an administrator for a construction company.

He stays out in the summer so i leave work and get right on the m4 for the 15 min journey!

In winter I will pay/ask someone at yard to turnout for me then do the mucking out and riding in the evenings as we have a floodlit arena. x

 

[lastresort]

Office manager and book keeper, mum and wife with a daughter how competes and i have one which i compete (who is off lame) a 4 year old who has started his schooling and this week im taking over competing a friends who is trying for a baby!! i work 9 till 3, fetch kids , at horses by 4 home by 7 and bed by 10!!! somewhere in between in see my husband.

I dont have much of a social life but dont care as we love our horses, my husband now is interested as otherwise he wouldnt see us. Son is very allergic so he is into cricket

I live by my watch in the week and have to be organised.

I ride every day and help my daughter most days and now ive typed it i dont know how i fit it all in

phew!!!!!!

 

[Capriole]

researching in a museum (mostly, but with lots of HHO skiving

)

 

[The Original Kao]

i'm head groom on a yard/riding school. horseless, but least i get paid to be around my fave animals. trying to save for my own neddy, but having an uncertain future right now means its probably going to have to wait again.
well i've waited 18 years whats a few more lol

 

[Capriole]

lol, i used to work as a groom, pay was lousy so i decided to have a job that paid more and a ned of my own

 

[wench]

i'm a quantity surveyor (brick counter) nag on working livery at a RS si dont really have to do anything.

Couldnt have one if DIY as i never know how long I will be working/where I am working.

 

[Sali]

I'm a support worker, and am doing a degree part time with the OU. I work a variety of shifts, inc nights and 24 hrs. I have absoloutly NO idea how I fit looking after and competing my two neddies.

 

[disco]

I'm an accounts administrator, start at 8:30 finish 5:45 p.m.
I get up at 5:45 a.m. (hate getting up at stupid time!) walk doggies, sort horsey out, go to work for 9 1/2 hours, come home, ride horse, walk doggies then me & other half get to eat!

 

[Sarah_Jane]

I work as a health and safety inspector for the local council. I am lucky they allow flexi time so I start at 7 and where posible finish at 3. I do have a 45 min drive to work. I get up at 5 and feed, muck out and turn out before leaving.

I'm usually home by 4 so do chores exercise in the evenings. I admit to no other half, social life etc and I often do think that I am trying to fit in too much in too few hours.

 

[SueAllen]

I have four jobs - (own secretarial business, run a 10 bed holiday cottage, work at a supermarket one night a week and parish council clerk) all part time and mostly flexible so I can usually fit the horse in somewhere as long as there are no unforseen problems. As I am also living in a major DIY project and have a barn conversion to run as well (plus the 3 dogs, 5 cats, chickens, sheep and husband) there are quite often a lot of other distractions but I am DETERMINED to get my horse fit for hunting so I MAKE time to ride - at the expense of housework usually! (so not a great loss!!)

 

[Gucci_b]

I married a millionaire.....

LOL

 

[dozzie]

Im a teacher. Have to leave home by 8.00am. Can get home by 6.00 some nights but if things have to be done they have to be done! Try to do as much as I can at school. Holidays are when I do most of course and is the only reason I stick with the job nowadays. Spend half of my holidays asleep or ill then the rest catching up on everything I havent done in term time! In the 6 week summer break I will spend at least a week in school. I try to do the first week of the hols in school as I am still stressed enough to wake up at silly time in the morning.

Try to get home to ride if poss at least twice a week but I am just exhausted by this end of the term so tend to hack out more!!

Seem to be forever mucking out and not enough riding!

Especially in the winter.

Not the same job as I went in to!

And before anyone says " but look at the Holidays!" blah blah blah.... Yes that is a huge bonus and tbh the only reason I still do the job!

Plus the fact I like the children and am damn good at what I do! Just hate the bureaucracy and c**p I have to put up with!!! Leave me to do my job, cancel all the waste of time meetings with idiot "managers" trying to implement government initiatives based on no research whatsoever and I could have a life!! Rant over!!!

No Rant not over!!!

In other words, it aint the kids who are the problem but the adults!!!

JUST LET ME TEACH!!!

Now rant over!!

Roll on Friday!!!!

My god Im stressed

Please dont comment on this post, just read it and try to understand that this is on behalf of all infant and primary teachers across the land! And if you have children of this age please be nice to their teachers this week!

 

[dozzie]

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I married a millionaire.....


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Has he got a brother!!

Must be at least 95 and no more than a week to live! But willing to leave me everything!

Oh and must also be a millionaire!!

 

[brackenhappy]

know where you coming from got 3 friends all primary teachers and they feel the same! me im an enforcement officer for the civil service! get to do flexi so sister throws horse out for me in winter i get into work for 7.30 leave at 3 (work through lunch!) dont ride bracken so muck out feed hang around gossiping then maybe steal ride from friend! summer time is best go down in evening to feed and check shes still got 4 legs 1 head and a tail!! sister will pop down in the day as well to see her! sister very kindly did my horse all winter whilst i was in newcastle training staff! dont think that will work this winter tho!!

 

[brackenhappy]

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I married a millionaire.....


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Has he got a brother!!

Must be at least 95 and no more than a week to live! But willing to leave me everything!

Oh and must also be a millionaire!!

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if h es got two send one to me!!!!

 

[EquestrianFairy]

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I married a millionaire.....

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Has he got two brothers? LOL.. by the way.. are you being serious? (Lol- i am!!)

Im a Unit manager for a Crisis intervention unit (Social services) Pays very well but hours can be a pain when we have problems with the kids in our care- wouldnt change it though.

When i actually get a horse *sob* i will go up before and after work but im bessie mates with the yard owner and her daughter so i get assisted DIY for free.

 

[zigzag]

Was a full time yard manager in livery yard/riding school. started a 6 am finished at 8 pm tues/weds/thurs/fri/ sat finished at 4 sunday at 1pm though saw to horses at teatime and did late night stables as well, monday worked mornins had afternoon off, did horses in evening, did that for 18 years and got fed up now a carer and a full time student doing a degree in health, got 3 horses so fit them in quite easily at moment cos long uni holidays and no assignments,

Winter will be harder cos horses will be in , so will feed, while eating drop of Andrew to day centre, come back turn out/muck out will ride my mare, before turnout some days. do some uni work, go to lectures etc be back for andrew then bring horses in ride my mare if haven't already

 

[dozzie]

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if h es got two send one to me!!!!

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Sorry if hes got two Im having them both! Polygamy! No problem!

 

[dozzie]

Wow! I am impressed with anyone who can do a degree and have young children! Well done you!

Good luck with it!

(If this sounds sarcastic, sorry, it is not intended to at all! )

 

[brackenhappy]

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if h es got two send one to me!!!!

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Sorry if hes got two Im having them both! Polygamy! No problem!

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not fair!! you have to share!!!