I know this isn't what I want to do with my life, but I'm very stuck on what I'm supposed to do between now and my longterm goal.
Me too EXACTLY! I do in-home boarding, and I'm really not enjoying it at all anymore. I want to just do training, but I live WAY out in the middle of nowhere and I just can't see getting enough training clients out here (with the boarding I offer pick up and drop off services and try to mostly do long stays, so the 4 hr round trip I usually make is ok, but for training I just don't see it working...). Definitely don't want to move, either.
On top of that, I really need to continue my training education. I took a 3 month course a few years back but mostly I don't agree with the methods taught, so that was a whole lot of money down the drain
Now I'm all in debt, so finding less pricey means of education for the moment, learning, always learning. They were running KPA this year from a nearby town and I wanted to take it SO BADLY but I just didn't have the money. I'm hoping it will run again here sometime when I might be able to scrape together the funds.
Ideally I would love to do some sort of training that didn't involve teaching the people, just me and the dogs out here in the boonies, but I'm stumped as to what I could do. Just not sure where I can go from here. But I really don't think I can handle the boarding thing much longer!! Aaaaghh...