Over the weekend I have been working at the Iroquois Hunt Club in Lexington in both the kennels and with the horses. Its a lot of work and its different to work with more hounds than horses, but its a great experience and everyone is so nice. Mr Miller who owns the place is just an inspiration to what hard work gets you in life. I also had an interview with the WEG for an internship in the operations department. The first thing you see when you walk into the office is a large master plan of the KY horse park, I immediately wanted it for my own room :) They are looking for some more interns to help in the operations department which concerns bids and permits and more of the technical stuff that will be going on for WEG. It sounded really exciting and definitely up my alley, plus I have the horse side to my education that no one else there really had. Hopefully I get it!!!
On another note I have been thinking a lot about eventing and getting a real job and just making it on my own lately. I have so many big plans and ideas that I hope I don't get frustrated with and they end up eventually happening (hopefully sooner than later) One of the things I am currently dealing with is that if you want to be sucessful in the horse world talent will only get you so far, you need money. Events themselves costs at least 2- 3 hundred min and some kids my age go to them every weekend. Thats not including a truck and trailer another 50 grand. Which is my biggest set back right now is that my trailer is 700 miles away from me in CT and I don't have a truck so I am left literally begging for rides and most of the time they never work out. Equally frustrating since Zammy is going so well and hes so talented- and time is the only thing against us and money. I would sell organs in my body for a truck right now. However what is so neat about eventing and the horse world in general is that there is really no age limit and I can see why. Unless you are very very lucky it normally takes 20 -30 - 40 yrs to have the money to buy a talented enough horse, have enough lessons, compete enough for experience, plus all the horse maintence, tack, trailer, gas, etc etc. Its enough to turn anybody against it if they are like me whose family is not in it as well. However this is why I wanted to become an architecture- specifically an equestrian architect. Long ago I decided that I needed to find a niche in the horse world that would make me enough money that I could do the things I love to do with the horses. As much as I would have loved to pursued an equine management major ( not really sure what they even gives you and sounds pretty worthless if you ask me) or to be a workings student like many of my former PC friends, I knew I didn't want to be 30 and living day to day on a pay check and cleaning stalls.
I go home to CT for two weeks on Monday for my sisters high school graduation. I'll be sad to leave zammy and even sadder at how fat hes going to get being turned out 24-7 while im gone since I can't afford full care. Hopefully I'll be able to get him back and maybe do another event?!!! A girl can dream can't she...
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