Robert J.
My Irish ancestors are looking down and shaking their heads at me for reducing myself to paying my own hardearned pay just for the opportunity to maybe get a job. They’re the only opinions in this world that matter to me so I hope my willingness to disappoint them demonstrates something of my motivation to get on horseback.
To be clear, I dont necessarily need to work with horses directly, at least at first. I just want a job on a farm or ranch that has horses and the opportunity to learn horsemanship and horse care whether its during my working hours or not. If you need someone to put up fences and do basic maintenance and nothing else I would whistle while I work so long as come quitting time someone would be willing to show me how to saddle a horse and let me ride around for a couple hours. If there’s a job opportunity down the line that’ll put me in a saddle all the better but far from a necessity.
Beyond that, I’m a 27 year old man from Long Island, New York who hasn’t taken a vacation from work in 5 years and has had all manner of jobs. I’m smart enough to learn whatever it is you need and hardworking enough to do it. I’m a fun, jovial guy who can get along with any coworker and I’m equally a thoughtful, independent worker who will happily work sunup to sundown totally alone. An animal helps, though. My current job has a cat and if not for him long shifts on my own would be a bit lonely to be sure. Cant imagine working directly with an animal would be much different from working with a quiet coworker.
I’ve done plenty of manual labor both in and out of work (my family is Irish and celtsblood bars us from hiring out any home-improvement or car maintenance we could do ourselves) but for the last five or six years or so I’ve worked in group homes for adults with intellectual disabilities. So if anyone is shy about hiring a yankee to work on a farm because we’re squeamish around blood or manure, I can promise you I have made my bones a thousand times over doing physically gross work. That work has also taught me what its like to care about the work you do and to do it for far less pay than its worth. That’s always a plus in an employee.
Its a plain fact that you can only learn how to do a job by doing it. I could go to school for equestrian sciences or agricultural technology or any number of other degrees or certifications but all that would do is make me a know-it-all who interrupts all your training with “Well actually…” every other sentence and has debts no entry-level job can pay.
Beyond working with horses, I would much, much prefer to be hired in the southwest than anywhere else and would prefer housing to a higher wage. I dont care if its just a bunk. I like people and people generally like me and I know how to keep to myself. And I cant do another northeast winter. If you give me a bed and teach me to ride a horse I’ll work sixteen hour days with a smile on my sunburnt Irish face.
Oh, and no seasonal work. I dont want to spend my life looking for a new job every four months. If the first place that’ll take me on is a good enough fit I’ll see no reason to leave. I’ve stayed in jobs I didnt like for a lot longer than I ought to have.
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Willing to relocate. New Mexico would be ideal, anywhere else in the southwest would be just as good, anywhere in the deep south would be good, anywhere that gets relatively mild winters would be fine too.
Email
bobby.johnston.276@gmail.com
Phone
631-432-8365
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