who works with horses and is on good money?

You all sound so negative about working with horses! There are good jobs out there. You just have to look, as a freelance you can set your own rates and works great for me, even before then when i was on a yard i was earning £300 per week. competing and staying away at shows and never even lived in!
 
Hmm, interesting my job hasnt been mentioned:

Im a nanny/groom and i get the best of both worlds- i get a little cottage to myself with all bills included, i get livery which is £50 deducted out of my wages but i get all vets bills, farriery and hard feed included aswell as use of all facilites and my own separate stable bit/room.

I work 8-6.30 (normally) with about two hours off everyday and earn around £250 per week after tax.
I work 5 days per week and generally get the weekend off.

I get to spend time riding during the day (whilst in work) and i obv ride after work aswell, but i get perks like entry into shows and xc schooling and the best car spaces in badminton lol!
 
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Hmm, interesting my job hasnt been mentioned:

Im a nanny/groom and i get the best of both worlds- i get a little cottage to myself with all bills included, i get livery which is £50 deducted out of my wages but i get all vets bills, farriery and hard feed included aswell as use of all facilites and my own separate stable bit/room.

I work 8-6.30 (normally) with about two hours off everyday and earn around £250 per week after tax.
I work 5 days per week and generally get the weekend off.

I get to spend time riding during the day (whilst in work) and i obv ride after work aswell, but i get perks like entry into shows and xc schooling and the best car spaces in badminton lol!

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I want your job!!! where do u work??
 
I earn £14,000 a year as head groom on a stud which is goodish for horses but considering i am 27 with a 2:1 BSc (hons) degree and a lot of experience is IMO crap! I want to work for myself and am learning massage, hopefully will soon do eqquine and human sports massage! Hoping this will eventually earn me a bit more money and job satisfaction.

I love the horses but watching the 3yo you have so carefully backed and ridden away have its head attached to its knees via a pair of draw reins for no better reason than "that is how i do it" is soul destroying
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I earn a good amount as a freelance trainer/rider. Don't need my own horse as get paid to ride some nice ones for other people!!

However I've done my share of sh*t shovelling on the way and also lived in a leaky caravan!! (Also had to tie the door shut with baler twine.)

I work as and when I want, and am now in the position of being able to pick and choose my clients. I don't have to answer to anyone else and enjoy almost every minute of it. I can afford the things I want (on the whole) a nice car, several holidays a year etc etc and earn an awful lot more than I did when I had a 'proper' job as a civil servant.
 
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I earn £14,000 a year as head groom on a stud

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Sorry but that is shocking!! I earned not much less than that over 20 years ago managing a stud......that was on top of being given my own new 4x4, my own cottage and no smelly or mucking out jobs.

You are so right to try to get out of it and go freelance if these are the silly figures people are being given. Good luck.
 
There are good jobs to be had. With decent money, & conditions.
My gripe is trying to find people that want a very cushy job, ie 12 horses shared x 2 grooms & 1 rider that helps on the yard when necessary. Full accomodation (all paid for) with some meals. Extra money when away at shows.
These days you get 19 yr olds that "have had there own horse for 10 yrs.) have a live in partner 2 dogs, & 3 horsesthat need accomodation & want £15000 pa with everything else paid for. Oh & ps they usually havent got a clue how to turn out to a reasonable standard. No experience with clipping, plaiting etc. But no problem they are willing to learn. Are clueless how to even attempt bandaging. Dont drive a non hgv box, but are learning to drive a car. ( so may need time off for lessons)
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I'm an Ep (Equine Podiatrist, 'barefoot trimmer' to those that don't have the same education or understand what I do). I earn £40 per consultation (which can take 20 minutes or two hours and may or may not include trimming the horse). i also charge fo rmileage and any products (usually at cost plus a minimal handling charge or I give my clients details where they can source products themselves but obviously I can buy them cheaper).

I'm currently trying to not take on any more new clients... but they keep coming, 4 more last week, 2 more just today...

I visit each horse every 4 to 8 weeks depending on the time of year, owner, horse. You dont want more than 100 horses but sometimes it's difficult to say no. You do the maths...

It can be hard work, you can get injured, but I guess that goes with any job with horses... You also need to be reasonably fit and (without being rude) generally more intelligent than your average farrier (most EPs are already qualified to at least degree level many beyond).

Very satisfying work. but be sure you become an EP rather than any of the other (pseudo) organisations...
 
I am glad someone posted a figure near the one in my head when mentioning "Good money" I though I was on my own.

IMO the average office worker would be earning between 20k and 50k so for it to be a good wage I would be thinking 40k.

If someone can find me a non office juob for that I will happily put my paperwork away and go home:)
 
I do a mixture of both worlds.

Work with horses part time teaching/riding/general yards for just above minimum wage and then work in an office job the rest of the time to actually fund time to have with my horses.

Works great for me (although I whine and moan about the office LOL) because I get all the 'perks' of being staff like free extra lessons etc, my livery comes out of my wages, I get to ride the yard horses whenever I want but I don't work crazy hours, I go when I need to go (no overtime) because I have another job to go to, I have enough money (and time) to go competing and I'm building up two careers so if one goes wrong I can depend on the other.

Works for me!
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