To give up nursing to become a dog Walker??

[Ploppity]

I work as a nurse part time I earn roughly £700 a month. It’s stressful, get treated like shit by staff and patients alike and the pay is shite.

My mate gave up her job to become a dog Walker. She loves it, spends all day strolling around outdoors and earns £900 a month.

Sounds too good to be true!? AIBU to consider giving up my career to walk dogs??

IMO dog walkers are a liability. No-one can responsibly walk more than say 3 dogs at a time, at a push. So if you want to be a responsible dog walker you will only walk a couple of dogs at a time which means you’ll be forever travelling back and forth to pick up/drop off dogs.

And as PP’s said, that market is saturated now, and I suspect there will be a lot of unemployed dog walkers during the next few months.

Our local park has 2 dog walkers who go regularly and they have about 12 dogs between them. Everyone boycotts the park at that time of day.

Do your sums.
friend walks 12 dogs a day 5x days a week, and makes around £18k after costs like insurance, petrol, van. Self employed, no work pension or benefits. She’s working 9-5 with 2 walks by the time she picks up, drops off for the 11am and 2pm
walk.
any holiday she takes is unpaid and she gets cover for her walks. Any illness - she loses money and someone covers her walks.
it’s full-time, full-on and a lifestyle choice rather than a job almost.

We’re cutting back household bills, and the dog Walker is the 1st thing to go…