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Topic: Work at home???
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Rocket is Magical
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posted December 03, 2003 11:25 AM
I have heard a lot of horse people say that they have work at home jobs on the computer, so they have more time with their horses. Do any of you know anything about this? I know there are all kinds of scams out there and lots of these things don't work, but I'm looking at some that might. I am looking to become a trainer in the near future, and I really need to put more time into it, but I can't because a 40 hr week at a full time job, that in no way relate's to horses. I can't afford to just quit and hope the training will work out. I know it will work out, eventually. But things like that take time. This is what I've wanted to do, and what I've trained to do all my life. I just really need to take this step. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
THanks!
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Rocket: 1/2 mustang & 1/2 QH
He is 15 & I've had him since he was a yearling. He is the best pole bending horse around!
Magical Tommy: AQHA-Registered QH
He is 6 & just ran his last race @ the track in June of this year. I'm now training him to ride. Possibly barrel race in the future.
Trying to teach my husband to ride;)
Posts: 62 | From: Louisiana | Registered: Nov 2003
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QHGirl
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posted December 03, 2003 12:46 PM
I know of a lot of people who do have full time jobs, 40+ hours a week and then come home and ride their horses and or train them. What I would do is take in one or two training horses and spend time at night doing that after work, or early in the morning. When you build a reputation and get a few more horses in, I would then look to cutting down your hours with your other job and or finding another one that has more flexable times.
I have a job I work well over 40+ hours a week and used to drive 1/2 hour to the barn and work BOTH of my horses and drive 1/2 hour home. It can be done, just depends how much time you want to put into it.
Good luck!!!!
Posts: 1350 | From: Indianapolis | Registered: Jul 2003
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Rocket is Magical
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posted December 03, 2003 12:59 PM
I think that's what I'll have to do for a while. It's just hard right now because I have so much going on. I work at least 40 hrs a week, I have a husband (who works 50+hrs a week) and house to take care of, we are trying to move right now (ugh!) and my horses are over 30 min away. It's just hard to find time. I try to ride as much as possible though. When I lived at home with my parents I rode everyday, daylight till dark. My horse (trained on barrels and poles), the neighbors horse (had no real training and she wanted to do barrels), my sister's horse (she didn't take the time to train him right for barrels and events), my mom's horse (to use for high school barrels), and 2 other girl's horse's (both for high school and competition barrels and poles). So I've had a good share of training horses for barrels and poles. That's what I really want to do, produce calm, level-headed speed event horses. That's a real demand around here. My horse is what you would call 'automatic'- although I don't think any horse is, and so is my siser's horse, once I got done with him. After I graduated high school and was done with high school rodeo, I had quite a few people call asking to lease my horse. The neighbor's horse was very well mannered after I rode him for a month. My mom's horse was winning everything, and one of the girl's horses I trained sold a year later for $10,000! She had no papers and was only 14.2 hands tall. They bought her for only $400 as a 3 year old. So I'm confident in my training capabilities, but I know it will take a while and a few good horses to prove that to other people.
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Rocket: 1/2 mustang & 1/2 QH
He is 15 & I've had him since he was a yearling. He is the best pole bending horse around!
Magical Tommy: AQHA-Registered QH
He is 6 & just ran his last race @ the track in June of this year. I'm now training him to ride. Possibly barrel race in the future.
Trying to teach my husband to ride;)
Posts: 62 | From: Louisiana | Registered: Nov 2003
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Rocket is Magical
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posted December 03, 2003 04:54 PM
I know there are people here who train, how did ya'll get started??
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Rocket: 1/2 mustang & 1/2 QH
He is 15 & I've had him since he was a yearling. He is the best pole bending horse around!
Magical Tommy: AQHA-Registered QH
He is 6 & just ran his last race @ the track in June of this year. I'm now training him to ride. Possibly barrel race in the future.
Trying to teach my husband to ride;)
Posts: 62 | From: Louisiana | Registered: Nov 2003
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Jubilee Farm
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posted December 03, 2003 10:46 PM
Word of mouth and knowing people got me started. People knew me from shows and other 'horsey' events and I started out helping younger kids with their horses a few times a week. Went from giving lessons to correcting a few 'problem horses' once in a while. Word of mouth makes you or breaks you. If you're good at it, you will end up with more requests than you have time for *laughing* Now I can't train because of complications I had from my last baby, but my new trainer pretty much has become known the same way. Started out showing and meeting people. Became an apprentice(sp?) for a known trainer, moved up to becoming his Barn's english trainer, through word of mouth she got her own clients, and now she is here!
Thats just the basic run down. We both also went to school, have degrees in animal science, business, etc. The more schooling you actually receive looks much better on your future resume', but again, IMO, all the schooling in the world wont help without getting out there and meeting people.
**edited for spelling errors. Doubt i've caught them all so please forgive the ones i've missed! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) **
[ December 03, 2003, 10:48 PM: Message edited by: Jubilee Farm ]
Posts: 289 | From: Northern CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Petie
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posted December 04, 2003 06:02 AM
Take it from someone who has made every mistake in the book, go get some training in business management and finances before you even consider training on your own. I worked my way up through the ranks from groom to assistant to resident to head trainer. It was a long road, even with a degree. It was definately workth it but...if I had it to do over again, I would take the business courses first!!
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God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.
Posts: 325 | From: Midwest | Registered: Oct 2003
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Blistering Winds
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posted December 04, 2003 08:01 AM
As for those that "work at home" I get fliers and e-mail all the time. MOst of those things that have sayings...OH I have so much more time divoted to my horse.....are scams..so watch out.
As for working at home and training. It's hard to break into it. Best thing is to find yourself a place and start from the bottom. Become buddy buddy with the trainer/instructor. If they feel that you can help, if they are sick, they'll ask you to help with lessons, and WHALA!!! You've broke into it. Then you can request to have a few "beginners" so they have more time with the experienced ones.....BAM..you have a following. THen, you can add on and on and on. Just don't step on the higher trainers toes. They'll screw you big time if you do.
When you are ready, you can break out on your own with references of all those that you worked with. I don't know how many times I've been asked for references. Most people I worked with I don't know where they are anymore (military). So I'm back to square one here in Amarillo. SLOWELY getting started again. Got one to work with next semester. With a possible 2 more to help train throughout the semester.....
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Horses should not be treated as people. They should be respected for who they are and what they are capable of doing!
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Posts: 4337 | From: Texas | Registered: Oct 2003
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