Do YOU think it's too much?

It really depends who you are...how willing you are to work, how good at time management you are, how hectic you like your life, etc. Last year i did a student assistantship at the gradeschool, went to school (two AP classes), worked to pay for my horse, rode/took care of my horse every single day (he got a day off from riding, but i still saw him every day-i was always there around 2 hours), then came home and read (i took AP English and AP Euro..heavy reading loads). It was crazy, i was tired, i never slept, i never saw my friends, but i wouldn't trade a minute of it. It was all worth it. I got college credit, I got teaching experience, and the best of all, I had the funds to pay for my horse. Point is, it really depends. I got really lucky everything fell into place. I found a way to do my assistantship before school in the morning, went to school, didn't have a lunch hour, and worked on some homework at work while eating lunch. That's another thing i was lucky about..my job. I found a job close to my school, babysitting two boys for an hour after they got off the bus. It was easy, i got to work on homework, and it paid 60 a week. So my point to all this is...it's possible, but it's really hard to make it work. most "normal" jobs are not flexible. you may not work mondays and wednesdays one week, but you might work 5 hours on tuesday. You can't walk up to your boss and say "hey, i want to work 2 hours everyday." It won't fly. they'll hire someone who is more flexible. your best bet would to be finding a "private" job...working at a stable, cleaning offices/homes, babysitting, etc. But you can't rely on someone needing a babysitter. they might not need one at all one month. it would be best to find one like mine, where it's an hour a day 5 days a week. It's really hard to make it work, but if you're okay with never sleeping and driving yourself crazy, i had a lot of fun with it LOL. You also need to be a really good saver. I was bringing in 280 a month (that's another thing..i was medicating horses daily for pay), but there were months my horse cost me more than 280. i'm a really good saver though...i never buy anything unless it's horse related. no joke. i don't even go out to eat, i don't grab a pop at the gas station, i don't get a donut, etc. it all went to my horse. i was actually able to build my account, and i made a lot of money this year. i was never pressured for money or concerned for the next month.

So in short....you can make it work, but you just might go crazy in the process. my best advice would be to get a job, or at least have a job in line before considering this. don't stress yourself out about it while you're already boarding that horse. good luck LOL

I'm seriously about to cry because I had a huge, at least 7 paragraph answer all typed out and then my phone ****** up and I lost it all. And there's no way I'm going to be able to retype all that. In a nutshell.... I basically said I don't know your circumstances but I'm guessing around $300 a month should be an adequate goal in whatever job you look for. 180 for board, leaving 120 for whatever else. Now, math is not my forte and it's also nearly 2am. BUT, I think that would be like 75 a week, which is approx 11 hrs a week. So like 2 hrs a day if you work 6 days, 4 hr shifts for 3 days, whatever floats your boat. I'd probably do 4 hour shifts on school days, which would be a plausible shift size for a part time job like this. With a schedule that full there will be no going home early... Sounds like a typical 8-3 school day right? So 11 hours of a working school day would be booked. That leaves about 2 hours max for everything else if you want to get an adequate amount of sleep in respect with your demanding day. Now add in showering, dinner, driving everywhere... You have like 45 minutes of barn time. So barn time on a working school day isn't very practical. Of course on the days you don't work you'll have plenty of time, but you'll probably want at least some time to study.....

For me, no, it'd never work. But for someone that is very organized and a perfectionist, etc, they may just be able to pull it off....... I would start out with just the one horse and see how things go, and if then you feel like you can handle it, bring in the second horse.

I wish I still had my original answer.... It was so much better and in depth.....

Wow... that is one load!

As you asked "Do you think you could do it?" - No

The reason being, I would have to spread myself too tin in one way or another.

I know from your answers that your a straight down the line, practical, hard working and meticulous individual. This may go against you, because you wont like not doing something properly.

I worked with horses my senior years, played competitive polocrosse and worked a job at a racing stable riding track work (Hmm I did more than I thought when its written down LOL). I managed to fit in it, but my horses were on the property with me the whole time which eliminated travel.

My mornings were at the race track, school during the day, home to work horses after school, inside to do study in the evenings. So I did not have to juggle that important afternoon time with a job.

I guess if you have to work straight after school, that you can work your show horse before 10pm. But I'm not sure you will have the extra time for the green horse that you would want to give them.

It is a similar school work load, so you have a good idea of how much study time you require. I think it is completely manageable with the one horse, two just makes it tricky.

My only real concern is your school work and grades. Because at the end of the day you try to do it and it does not work, you just send the green horse back home and give up working the job.

Your not exactly in the maths for dummies class and it depends on what grades you need for the future and what direction you want your life to head in. If your sleep deprived and not working at your best, you may slip behind in classes, this will place you under enormous stress.

Like others have said, only you will know if it is right for you. But if your already skeptical then you probably know it will be a squeeze to get it all done at once.

Your going to give it a trial to see if it works out and that is the most sensible thing you can do. Trust your gut and if it is not right then, you just adjust it all until it is ;-)

And I can be boring with statistics, you wont be getting enough REM sleep for your brain to be functioning properly on just 5 hours of sleep a night.

If anyone can take this all on and succeed it is probably you. Good luck ;-)

I'd probably put the green horse off till spring. I'd also rethink taking physics and biology at the same time. If there is a way to avoid it, might be a good idea to take one or the other in spring. Both classes require a boatload of studying (at least for me they did, I was taking Bio III and Calculus-based Physics at the same time. Not the best idea). Also, I don't know what kind of jobs you are applying for but I found that the best way to work minimal hours and still make great money through school was serving, then bartending when I was old enough. Believe it or not you can make a killing working in a restaurant.

Well lets see

School is a full-time job.

Taking care of/training your horse is a full-time job.

And a job is adding an awful lot.

I know one kid who was ranked first in my class was able to play two sports, take regular classes(not too hard, since my school doesn't offer any AP or IB and only 1 honors class), be in drama club, academic team, student ambassador, band, choir, and take music lessons, and somehow be up to date on tv shows and such. BUT he didnt have any outside job.

If you think you can handle the schedule, with keeping up your health and grades then ok...but If something starts slipping I wouldn't suggest it.

You need to sleep more than 5 hours a night, this will catch up to you in the long term, if not in the short term. YOur health and attitude will suffer.

Could you maybe pasture board one or both of your horses? To take off some monetary stress. Where would your green horse be if she wasn't boarded? At home. So you could work with her if you had a spare moment.(idk how your weather is).

PSEO is tough, especially with your regular schedule. That adds on probably more homework than you want/ is beneficial.

I'm not trying to be a debbie downer, but I think If you place all that on yourself right now, you're going to crash and burn eventually.

I think the U.S. military spends too much on certain pieces of equipment, like the F-35 Lightning II or the Littoral Combat Ship. I think both are extremely overpriced, underpowered systems that should have been canceled or whose cost overruns and mismanagement should have resulted in penalties for the companies involved. I believe this is a consequence of defense industries trying to affect as many members of Congress as possible, of political gamesmanship ("what is Congress going to do, cancel the project if we go overbudget? Yeah, right."), and of simple bloat in the size of defense contractors. I believe there should be laws to prevent defense industries from intentionally spreading out to influence more members of Congress, I believe there should be independent auditors with teeth, and I believe the larger defense companies should be broken up via anti-trust (particularly Lockheed Martin, the worst offender). As for overall defense spending, I don't believe we need to spend more than 3-3.5% of GDP on defense to maintain our commitments. That's a decrease from the current budget, but I don't think it's unreasonable. I'd maintain the Navy at 11 carrier battle groups, 9 amphibious assault groups, 60 attack submarines, and 12 ballistic missile submarines to replace the Ohio-class. However, the Navy also needs a real frigate, not the overpriced and near-useless LCS - say 3,500 tons, 16-cell VLS plus torpedoes, helicopter hanger, stealthy superstructure. Not designed for minesweeping or SOF insertion, but for anti-piracy and anti-submarine missions. We need 50 or so of these eventually.

Could I do it? Not a chance. I would only have time for one horse, no part time job, and I wouldn't have a social life. But that is me.

I'm planning on going back to post secondary in January part time so I can divide myself between school, work, and riding. Like I said. That's me.

I would definitely take it on. I actually like being busy (friends are, eh, friends...I don't NEED them).

But in the end, it all comes down to what YOU think. Not the opinion of a stranger on the internet.

You're overextending yourself.

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