only_me
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Sw123, 21k is the starting pay for a band 5 
Working horse owners, tell me what you do
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Festive_Felicitations
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VETS! Give up the mud and the cold, come and be a large animal vet in Aus and they will welcome you with open arms!! and pay you!!! Bring an OH, preferably a Dr and they will role out the red carpet! 
Ok not quite but there are a shortage of both in many rural areas.
Downside a 'call out' may be a 100km one way, the mud is replaced with dust and the livestock are fare less tame. Also you might have to live in fairly rural areas but the concept of a 3hr trip to a DR comp soon becomes the norm
I'm an Ag scientist with the gov, life is made a lot easier with the concept of 'flex-time'. I'm a new grad on min salary and manage to fund a horse & compete, keep the car & trailer on the road and save a bit of money. However I would never have been able to buy the car & trailer if I hadn't managed to save up a signif sum over my last year of Uni in the year it took me to find a real job, while living at home paying min rent.
I wouldn't have to live quite so frugally if I wasn't planning a year volunteering with NGOs in SE Asia to push my career in the direction I want in the near future. It will mean no horses for few years
so I'm trying to do as much as possible now.
Ok not quite but there are a shortage of both in many rural areas.
Downside a 'call out' may be a 100km one way, the mud is replaced with dust and the livestock are fare less tame. Also you might have to live in fairly rural areas but the concept of a 3hr trip to a DR comp soon becomes the norm
I'm an Ag scientist with the gov, life is made a lot easier with the concept of 'flex-time'. I'm a new grad on min salary and manage to fund a horse & compete, keep the car & trailer on the road and save a bit of money. However I would never have been able to buy the car & trailer if I hadn't managed to save up a signif sum over my last year of Uni in the year it took me to find a real job, while living at home paying min rent.
I wouldn't have to live quite so frugally if I wasn't planning a year volunteering with NGOs in SE Asia to push my career in the direction I want in the near future. It will mean no horses for few years
so I'm trying to do as much as possible now.rubysmum
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Thanks for that everyone, gave me something to think about anyway!! spoken to quite a few people now and think im going to look into secondary teaching
good choice - always interesting, lots of promotion possibilities, salary not great but you can change a young persons life AND the hols are fab