What does your trade/skillset require you to bring to the job?

[csziggy]

25. Mostly the ability to out think dumb animals - and some muscle

Not that I can do it anymore, but handling horses takes a good amount of psychology, understanding the animals and how they think. It also takes enough muscle to handle them, though since even a big man can't outmuscle a thousand to fifteen hundred pound horse, you have to know how to leverage that muscle - literally.

Then there are the halters, bridles, saddles, ropes, brushes, etc. to get a horse ready to ride. Buckets for feed & water, and shovels and forks for cleaning their stalls. Hammers, fence stretchers, post hole diggers, post driver, etc. for maintaining barns & fence. Tractors, bush hog, harrow, drags, chain saw, spreader, etc. for maintaining the pasture.

That's just the basics - not counting if you are taking horses to shows, or running a barn where you will be boarding other people's horses, or giving your own shows, or training for specific events such as jumping, working or roping cattle, etc.