Fantasy Jobs

[Bodshi]

Just a bit of fun .... what's your fantasy job? Horse or non-horse related, the sky's the limit.

I would like to be a ranger of some kind, looking after a large area of land on horseback. Just riding out every day, checking the fences/livestock/wildlife etc on my trusty steed, sometimes having to camp out to be able to reach the far boundaries. Raf would be the No 1 trusty steed, but I'd also have a Highland to share the load, probably mouse or cream dun.

In real life of course I don't have the qualifications or knowledge, but hey, it's a dream!

You go ....

 

[MrA]

Living somewhere very remote in the UK and documenting insects and their habitats. I'm not sure that can actually be a job so perhaps that's my hobby, in which case working at a zoo looking after the bats, frogs and cockroaches.

 

[KP nut]

@Bodshi like this?!

I think Amber quite enjoyed her new job as a ranch horse!

My dream fantasy job is to be a writer.

 

[newforest]

Cob Courier.
Providng people were not in a rush to receive the letters.
She's practiced posting letters in the various boxes I have found.

 

[Jessey]

A ranger is def up there but there's so few on horseback now. I'd happily be a rancher or farmer, its a hard life but I enjoy it.

Good times

 

[domane]

I have always wanted to be a midwife. I actually got a place on the course at Guildford hospital many years ago, when I was still living in Greater London. I still have the letter telling me they'd had 2000 applicants for 65 places, which I'm so proud of. Unfortunately at the time my children was still small and I would have relied heavily on my mum for childcare help...and my stepfather had just been diagnosed with Parkinsons, so she couldn't commit. I deferred my place for a year, but sadly I then had to pull out. I still get wistful and wonder how my life would have panned out if I'd been able to go down that route.

These days, I'd love to be an equine physio or a saddle fitter, both of which require expensive and extensive training!

 

[Trewsers]

Being as I live and breathe the horses on a daily basis in that they live with me and are both a source of exercise and fun, I think I'd enjoy lots of other jobs whilst working from home - keeing an eye on them. I'd love to design paper, proper old fashioned writing paper with matching envelopes, as I adore writing paper, notelets etc. That would be lovely and getting samples of the end product would be good too. Another job I could do alongside this, testing make up! I love girly things and never ever tire of trying new products so a job getting paid to wear it would be such fun. Boot testing would be good too - making sure that expensive yard boots etc really do exactly what they say on the tin! I can vouch for some good, muddy, hard going conditions here which would mean they did get tested to capacity.
And lastly if someone wanted to pay me to test traditional manual typewriters to make sure they were fully working before being shipped out to collectors. What's not to love about that?!
I also would enjoy designing boxes, lovely pretty boxes for packages such as makeup, jewellery, soap etc. That would be great!
As you can see apart from boot testing my dream jobs are indoors. I spend a lot of time outdoors just for fun so feel I get enough that way.

 

[GaryB]

Living somewhere very remote in the UK and documenting insects and their habitats. I'm not sure that can actually be a job so perhaps that's my hobby, in which case working at a zoo looking after the bats, frogs and cockroaches.

A friend of mine went to work as a warden on an island with her boyfriend doing more of less that (I think it was actually more birds than insects), so it can be a job

I always wanted to be a pilot. I did get my licence and flew for many years privately but not as a job. It would be nice to get paid for it - I would like to fly people into safari camps somewhere where there is riding. ANother friend of mine did that minus the riding for a couple of years and loved it.

 

[Bodshi]

Living somewhere very remote in the UK and documenting insects and their habitats. I'm not sure that can actually be a job

I don't see why that couldn't be a job - you could make it a research project and your work would be used in all the best wildlife programs and documentaries. In fact, I quite fancy that job myself.

Actually, when you've finished your degree you could seek funding for a PhD in insect, er, studies.

 

[Bodshi]

@Bodshi like this?!

I think Amber quite enjoyed her new job as a ranch horse!

My dream fantasy job is to be a writer.

Yes, but not just cattle, I'd be looking for Wildcats, Pine Martins etc as well as the herds of cattle/horses/sheep etc that were brought on to the reserve to manage the grazing.

How did you arrange to do cattle cutting, or whatever it was? There's someone near us (Guy Robertson - I think it was you that looked into using him a little while ago for Xavier possibly?) who offers cattle working days, and I have thought about enquiring. I'm sure Raf would be an excellent cattle horse

 

[KP nut]

@Bodshi yes it was with Guy Robertson. It was a brilliant weekend. Loved it and so did Amber. And a very welcome distraction from the Ginny situation.
The overall weekend was focused on building a horse's confidence, gaining control over the body and life of the horse and improving a horse's motivation by giving it a sense of purpose. The cattle work was the final session where it all came together - confidence ot cut a cow away from a herd and work it, control to move it around in figure 8s, round cones etc then pen it and a sense of purpose as the horse had a clear job. Amber loved it. We also did a session with Trec type obstacles. It was great.

 

[Bodshi]

@Jessey I think you've posted those pics before (and made me very jealous before too lol). I would love to do that, can't see it ever happening unless I win the lottery and can afford to retire though. But yes, that would be a dream job for me.

@Trewsers I get what you mean about keeping your hobby as your hobby and having a separate job. I used to think I'd like to do something with horses for a living, but helping out on the yard and chatting to horsey professionals has put me off. Not that I don't enjoy helping on the yard, but having to do it day in day out is such hard work. We did consider buying a competition venue when one was available locally for a very reasonable figure a few years ago, but the thought of working when everyone else was enjoying themselves and not being able to go on the PRs and things that I enjoy doing, didn't seem like such a good idea when I really thought it through. Then there's the physio who doesn't even have her own horse any more because she's so busy with work, and who is getting arthritis in her hands (she's only young) from all the manipulating she does. It all sounds too hard work for me. I'd still like my job to involve my horse, but only my horse, no-one else's lol.

You do strike me as a very creative and arty person though, so I think you'd be good at any of your dream jobs, and the boot tester!

 

[Bodshi]

@Bodshi yes it was with Guy Robertson. It was a brilliant weekend. Loved it and so did Amber. And a very welcome distraction from the Ginny situation.
The overall weekend was focused on building a horse's confidence, gaining control over the body and life of the horse and improving a horse's motivation by giving it a sense of purpose. The cattle work was the final session where it all came together - confidence ot cut a cow away from a herd and work it, control to move it around in figure 8s, round cones etc then pen it and a sense of purpose as the horse had a clear job. Amber loved it. We also did a session with Trec type obstacles. It was great.

I think my former RI has booked the same clinic with her new and young horse. I don't know whether she's been yet, I haven't seen anything on FB, but then I don't go on very much. I really do quite fancy it now.

 

[newforest]

Living somewhere very remote in the UK and documenting insects and their habitats. I'm not sure that can actually be a job so perhaps that's my hobby, in which case working at a zoo looking after the bats, frogs and cockroaches.

I can think of an island you could live on to do just that.
It's conservation.

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

I think anything I have to do as a job immediately ceases to be as much fun as it was before! So I think I'll keep horses separate, even in my dreams.

 

[Trewsers]

Living somewhere very remote in the UK and documenting insects and their habitats. I'm not sure that can actually be a job so perhaps that's my hobby, in which case working at a zoo looking after the bats, frogs and cockroaches.

There are rangers responsible for wildlife on all the small outer islands up here. There's lots of things to monitor - not just puffins lol

 

[Trewsers]

Cob Courier.
Providng people were not in a rush to receive the letters.
She's practiced posting letters in the various boxes I have found.

Cob courier love it!!!
She'd have to have special "colours" for delivery days too of course

 

[Mary Poppins]

This probably isn’t what a woman in 2018 is supposed to say, but if money were no issue for me, my job would be having more kids and looking after them. I have 2 wonderful boys and always been a working mum. I have worked part time since my youngest was born and am currently retraining to become a psychotherapist. I will enjoy this and I think I will be good at it, but I do wish I could have been in a position to have more kids. I wanted at least 3, ideally 4 and if we lived in a bigger house and could afford the associated costs this brings, it is what I would have done. When my own boys grow up and move out I would like to become a foster parent but my husband isn’t keen on this. I am sure I will end up with more horses to satisfy the nurturing instinct in me.

 

[newforest]

Nothing wrong in wanting more kids @Mary Poppins some people are just naturally nurturing.
Thankfully for me I am from an era where saying no and being independent is accepted. I wouldn't want to have been around when getting married and having kids was expected.

I could say if money were no object my dream job would be not having to get up and go do it.
I know people who foster and they say it's very rewarding. You are stepping in to help the most vulnerable at a time when is not necessarily appreciated at the time.
I am not a child person but if they can ride, I will take them out, I find them fun.

 

[Mary Poppins]

Nothing wrong in wanting more kids @Mary Poppins some people are just naturally nurturing.
Thankfully for me I am from an era where saying no and being independent is accepted. I wouldn't want to have been around when getting married and having kids was expected.

I could say if money were no object my dream job would be not having to get up and go do it.
I know people who foster and they say it's very rewarding. You are stepping in to help the most vulnerable at a time when is not necessarily appreciated at the time.
I am not a child person but if they can ride, I will take them out, I find them fun.

I don’t feel it is expected of me to have kids. It is what I want to do. I feel more expectation to carry on working and balance a career with raising kids. This summer I am taking 4 weeks off to look after my family, I am perfectly entitled to do this but the hassle from work to take that time off is overbearing. It is always such a juggling act. I don’t care about my job but I need the money as for some reason I am well paid for doing relatively little! I could quite happily quit my job and never think of it again.