I have been making my living full time as a self-employed pooper scooper since 2003. Because I am a one-man operation (I have chosen not to hire any employees), your yard will be tended by the person who is most motivated to do the job right, and to keep you happy and satisfied -- because that's the only way I can stay in business, put food on my table, pay the rent, and support my hobbies (see be
low)! I grew up in Spokane on the South Hill (Hutton Elementary, Sacajawea Jr. High, Lewis and Clark High), and went to local colleges (Whitman College in Walla Walla, WWU in Bellingham, and EWU in Cheney). After graduating I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where I worked in Silicon Valley for thirteen years, working my way into high-tech middle management. (That was fun during the dot-com boom, not so much after the bust!) After going through eleven mergers and/or acquisitions in those thirteen years (with the associated moves, transfers, job losses, new roles and high stress), I decided to step off that treadmill, move back to Spokane where my family is, and figure out a way to be self-employed, working outdoors, at a job that would leave me with more time and energy for the things I love doing -- like hiking, trail-running, nature photography, and reading good books. So far, so good (please see my website: spokanepooperscooper.com)! The Spokesman-Review published a haiku of mine: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/oct/21/out-about/
And they published a photo I took, too: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/08/reader-photo-from-the-ashes/
