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  • #21
    FindersKeepers....

    ....right there with ya! Absolutely the best life I can imagine!

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    • #22
      I have several I would love!

      Warmblood inspector...I would love to travel around and look at horses all day and meet people and talk about their horses and go to fancy auctions and the big shows and have an excuse to memorize pedigrees, etc.

      Own my own breeding farm...big, with lots of mares and foals and stallions and big enough to be able to bring in interns to learn about breeding and have trainers and riders to campaign all of my youngsters, etc. The entire nine yards!

      Work at a repro specialist...but I don't want to be a vet. So not sure exactly what the position would entail but I would love to help people use all of the breeding technologies that are out there.

      Anyone see a theme?
      There are stars in the Southern sky and if ever you decide you should go there is a taste of time sweetened honey.

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      • #23
        Originally posted by onthebit View Post
        Well I guess people will be throwing rotten tomatoes at me thanks to this post but I have my dream job. I run a retirement farm and spend my days with gorgeous, loving horses and ponies and I get paid for it!
        Awww, you have my dream job!

        I have such a soft spot for the old codgers. I'd love to do retirement boarding. Only have room for my own retirees right now, though.

        Yes, I love to ride, and I own two younger mares as well, but there's just something special about pampering the seniors. And feeding them. I grew up in a very Polish family, where you show your love with food, but for myself and my younger mares, well, we don't need an ounce of extra! I want to, but I know better. Now, the distinguished elderly mare, she can have four meals a day when it's cold out. And mashes! I can make her mashes! Bless her heart, that mare will eat anything you put in a bucket
        "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming part dog."
        -Edward Hoagland

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        • #24
          Raise and train my own standardbreds - trotters only, no pacers! - then, when they were finished at the track, re-train them for lives that don't involve pulling an amish buggy. :-)

          I was never happier as when I was watching a baby that I had helped pick the daddy for, raised and then helped to train hit the races, but that was a lifetime ago... I miss it.

          Barring that... Being a usef licensed steward sounds intriguing...
          The ninja monkeys are plotting my demise as we speak....

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          • #25
            I want to train ponies and riders, I want to take kids to Devon, and Pony finals, I want to watch little kids grow up with ponies they LOVE, and ride bareback in the fields, and play broom polo on the same pony that will truck them around that weekend in the A pony divisions. Oh and I want the kids, the parents will be relegated to the nice comfy lounge, and they can sign the checks but they can't interfere! You did say DREAM job right???
            Kim
            If you are lucky enough to ride, you are lucky enough.

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              #26
              I am SOOOO jealous! I hope that we get our equine assisted therapy program off the ground and doing well enough that it supports our horses and I can be there all the time! I only need to pay for my horses and my rescues..that is the only reason I work. Thankfully I have a husband who pays for everything else! I would also love to trade my view for yours!!

              Originally posted by onthebit View Post
              Well I guess people will be throwing rotten tomatoes at me thanks to this post but I have my dream job. I run a retirement farm and spend my days with gorgeous, loving horses and ponies and I get paid for it! No rush hour traffic, no commuting, no dressing up, no office politics, etc. I owned a recruiting company for years and there isn't enough money to get me to go back to that life, I was so happy the day I sold that company. I don't even mind it (much) when it is pouring rain and I'm soaking wet.

              I just took these pictures two mornings ago, these were my views that started off my day. I am so lucky and I know it!

              http://tinypic.com/r/23sewd3/3

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              Lori T
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              www.facebook.com/LTEquine for product updates on the lines I rep

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              • #27
                I would love to manage a barn, but not the 12-hour standing up running around workday type of management. The show entries, handling breeding and lesson inquiries, setting things up, sending out sales videos, doing the billing, finding cheaper places for shavings etc, mixing up a great grain mixture, sourcing hay, setting up advertising, etc. It all just sounds so darn appealing!!! I'd have my finger on all the fantastic horses in the barn, know all the juicy gossip, and be well aware of the inner workings. Then, of course, I would set aside 2 hours every day in which to ride, and the barn would be right there! Perfecto...

                Word on the street is that a position like this will open in my barn in a few years... definitely keeping my finger on that pulse.

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