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"The
greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The
oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the
highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the
seedlings of realities." - James Allen
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updated 10/23/09
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2 Working Student Positions Open!
 | Full Time Position - 2 hrs/day, 4 days/ week - 1
lesson |
| Part Time Position - 2 hrs/day, 2 days/week - 1/2 off
lessons |
Work Entails (in order of priority):
| cleaning stalls |
| grooming horses |
| cleaning tack |
| washing saddle pads |
| cleaning buckets (feed and water) |
| sweeping the barn aisle |
| watering plants around arena and barn |
| moving jump standards |
| fixing coffee |
| straightening out the tack room |
| cooling out the horses |
| mowing/weeding/watering |
| miscellaneous... |
This list is the generic 'to do' list for the day. Each day, you'll get
a list of the things that make sense for that day.
You won't be asked to tack the horses for riding, although I may ask you to
groom them before or right after they've been ridden.
A typical two hours might consist of cleaning the stalls
(about 30 min), grooming the horses (75 min), and then cleaning a bridle(15
min). Or it might be cleaning the stalls (30 min), grooming the horses
(75 min), and sweeping the barn aisle (15min). Or, if the stalls are
mostly clean, it might be 15min cleaning stalls, 75min grooming, 20 min
watering, and cooling out horses.
Horse Experience really a must!
Does this sound like something you're interested in? If so,
there are two criteria:
- We need to make sure we're a fit.
If you've not had lessons here, let's schedule a first
time lesson, for which you'll pay regular price, and make
sure we're a fit. If you've been taking lessons with me, then simply let me know you're
interested in trading time and effort.
- Doing good work in a timely fashion
is a must. Each work item has a 'reasonable time'
associated with it, so that you'll never be asked to do more than
will fit in the time you've scheduled; conversely, whatever work
you're asked to do, that's the work that needs to get done in
trade for the lesson you're working towards. i.e. the
lesson will come after the work. You can take as long
as you want to do the work. There will be days where I will
assign tasks as we go along. In that case, I expect you to
come and ask for more work.
If you want to do this but you haven't got 'horse experience' yet, let's continue
with regular lessons so you can
develop your abilities until you're ready to put
in a full 2 hours without my supervision.
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The two school horses:
IRS in the foreground;
Carlos in the background
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