I know I’ve touched on both of these possibilities before, but just wanted to remind people that they have options to use their skills, combined with their love of horses to start to generate some pocket money.

It’ll take a lot more work to generate an income through the likes of writing articles for magazines, online sites such as Suite101 or other such avenues, but it is possible to start today, building up a profile for yourself as a writer and generating a small amount of money in the process. Do it for the experience and love of writing, rather than the anticipation of funds and you can’t go wrong.

The same goes with photography. There are so many stock photo sites out there that will take photos (under specific guidelines) and put them for sale on the site. Every time someone wants to use your photo, they can purchase it and you make a small amount of money. This is a great way to start up a portfolio in the photography world and generate an increasing residual income.

In both areas, I believe it’s a question of skill as well as being a numbers game. The more you have written or the more photos on display, the more likely someone will find something they like resulting in funds for you!

‘Every day you don’t invest is another day’s interest you haven’t made.’

Calling all wannabe equine body workers!  Debranne of Equinology.com has sent me an email about a scholarship that is on offer to anyone – and it sounds spectacular!

A breakdown:

• EQ201 Equinology Equine Body Worker Course
• Retreat October 10 – 27, 2011 (three weeks)
• In Northern California at The Sea Ranch
• Course costs ($3000 worth) as well as a private bedroom and bathroom

How awesome does that sound?  So what do you need to do?

• Be available on those dates in 2011
• Be able to get yourself to California and cover costs of meals
• Do the prerequisite, EQ50 (currently only $20 US)
• Apply for the scholarship

Sounds great, right?  More details can be found at the Events Page as well as the actual course info.  Applications close Jan 15th so you may wanna get a wriggle on!  They can be submitted by:

• an email to ronamead@gmail.com with ‘CG Scholarship’ as the subject
• snail mail to: POB 1192, Gualala, CA 95445 with ‘CG Scholarship’ in the top left hand corner

The application in itself requires that you “write an essay explaining why learning equine body work will help you reach your goals in the equine industry. You should include your horse experience within the body of the essay.”

Note also that to attend this course, you must be experienced in working around all different types of dispositions and be comfortable in picking up all the limbs of the horse.  Happy writing!

“Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.” – John Tyler’s epitaph for his horse

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