11/14/2025
📢Life happenings announcement/clarity to my pawrents paragraph.📣
As many of you know, for years I havw worked 2 full time jobs basically, one being training evenings and weekends, the other being some sort of day job. 🏃♀️
The day jobs ranging from retail management, to working as a lead guest administrator for an Edmonton Massage/Accu/Chiro Clinic. 📍
Now, working in customer service in the legal cannabis trade, with part time hours.
The job I have I value in so many ways, the primary being they're understanding about training dogs/pawrents being a priority for my schedule and they have always been exceptionally accommodating.💞
The second valuable factor in keeping my current job, being able to have medical coverage, for part time hours.
Even with not doing 40 hours a week with a day job, for the past 2 years I have worked 6 days a week, sometimes 7, in split shifts. Often not eating dinner until 10/11pm.😪
Working this much as it stands, is grounds for burnout if I am not careful, but there has been a healthy balance in avoiding that since going to less than 40 hours with the day job I have now. It would also mean taking a major step back from training and I have a full schedule now entering the normal training off season, with loads of hopeful families wanting lessons.😔
As many of you also know, my other half has been unable to work for nearly 1 year, due to the absolute atrocity that is the Canadian medical system. Needing to see a urologist for surgery consult, with whats been told to us, is a 2 year minimum wait for his consult type and considerable unmanaged pain. 🏥
All these things being said, like many in today's economy, things have not been easy on our end, and I would like to start entertaining the idea of a day job career shift.
I am not in a rush by any means, I love my job, and have a lot of fun doing it. 🤗
However, I do want to consider other things that could have great advancement opportunities, or ways to work hours in other ways equally as flexible to the training needs of everyone of you.
Please give me your ideas! What do jobs do some of you have, that you love, with these qualities? 🧠
Yes, I have been looking at Indeed, etc, but it also doesn't hurt to have ideas of what to search for more in depth!
I also have been told to raise my rates multiple times in the past 3 years, but have a very difficult time doing so, being so many pawrents express gratitude to the affordable pricing. 🥹
However, this may mean travel fee increases incoming, to adjust to the cost of living adjustments since the last rate increase. 🚗
My apologies for the ramble friends! I am looking for as many gathered brains as I can though on this search! 🧐
