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DD1's Recent Jobs

July 11th, 2013 at 12:47 pm

The last week of June I mentioned that DD1 got a job walking the neighbors dog. She walked the dog for 7 days, an hour a day and got $20. The dogs are now staying with family members because the neighbors have their house up for sale.

We had another neighbor call last minute while they were out of town. A family member that they had watching their dog had to go out of town. My daughter kept that dog at our house from Sunday night to Wednesday afternoon (yesterday). The family will be back in town today and she will get paid. We do not know how much she will be paid.

Back to the neighbor that she was dog walking for. They are going out of town as asked DD1 last night if she could water their yard for a week and they would pay her $100. She jumped on it! Then she got a text msg later saying that comes with her keeping their bird and the ladies husband forgot to mention it. I told DD1 that I was okay with the bird staying with us.

I am very excited that she has got these 3 jobs within the past two weeks. We are learning as we go! When she is asked to do something she'll need to run it by me first then go back to the person with finer details and letting them know how much she will charge for the job instead of just accepting whatever the person is willing to pay.

I found out that a dog walker in our area makes $1 to $1.50 a minute and they normally only walk the dog for 30minutes because it is so hot outside. I would rather her run over to the persons house two-three times a day instead of the animal staying at my house.

I'm going sit down with her tonight and make some business cards on Vistaprint!

3 Responses to “DD1's Recent Jobs”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    An hour a day is a long time for most dogs. I'm sorry she only got $20 for that job. Sounds like future jobs are possible and will be much better planned.

  2. rob62521 Says:
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    Good job on those jobs...and learning by these situations. Cool!

  3. Wino Says:
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    We have a pet-sitting service that I've used in the past in Houston that charged me $20 per day per dog to feed them twice a day, plus about $7 per day, per dog to walk them with each feeding. At least, I think those were the numbers. When you figure the cost of transportation along with the hourly rate of the walker, that's not outrageous, but I had three dogs at the time, so the cost really added up quickly on my sometimes three or four week trips. I didn't mind, though, as that allowed my dogs to stay home while I traveled. I was not married when I did this. Now, DW stays home with the dogs. She also costs a lot more than the walking service. Wink

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