11-12-2017, 08:44 PM
@silverwolf:
I mentioned being a professional rider on reddit quite alot, so I guess you must have missed out on this... [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wink.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=";)" width="20" />
But it´s true, I went through three years of apprenticeship, shoveling manure from more than 50 boxes in the morning, giving lessons to beginners in the afternoon (mostly bratty and spoiled girls) and occasionally rode some of the more difficult horses , both private owned and school horses. After these three years of becoming what in German is called "Pferdewirt", I was employed in a big riding club famous for breeding showjumpers for nearly 10 years. For six years, I was the one managing this riding club with more than 100 horses, with only the owner of the club above me in hierarchy.
The only reason I´m not working as a riding instructor at the moment is my mare´s death in January 2016. I immediately quit my job ´cause walking by her empty box would have destroyed me completely. Luckily, my family supported me and so we bought a rather luxurious farm...and that´s how I am living right now: four mares, roughly 25 hektars of greenland/pastures, I make money through lots of solar modules installed on the large roofs of the farm and I´m also selling hay , what gives me some nice extra cash every other week. Almost everything I consume I grow myself (including "funny tobacco"..if you know what I mean [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wink.png[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title=";)" width="20" />).
