Dog walking in New York?

Published Jul 30, 2010 in New York

Tagged under: walking, York

I’m sick of my 9 to 5, and I’m thinking about moving to NYC and starting fresh. (I’m in my 20’s, so don’t criticise!) I need to make money while I work on writing my play, but I want to do something that allows more freedom than my current job does.

I’d love to do something like dog-walking, or possibly be a nanny… but is there much of a calling for this?
I’m American… ha ha.

“Criticise”… I didn’t even notice that! I’ve been to the UK one too many times.

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2 Responses to Dog walking in New York?

Published 30 July, 2010 in 7:14 am

Assuming you live in England (you spelled criticize with an ‘S’), you’ll be turned back at immigration at JFK Airport unless you are in a critical shortage area, like medicine or engineering, or unless you are involved in some sort of overseas program that allows you to work low-end jobs in foreign countries.

Also, it’s not that easy to start dog-walking services. You require quite a bit of time and capital, something our immigration officials will ask you.
Want to move here? Get a degree.

Assuming you are indeed an American citizen, to start off do you have the money to pay rent? Bills? How are you going to market your business? How much money will you begin with? How are you going to compete with 1000s of other dog-walking services in NYC? It’s not that easy.

Jamerican Steve

Published 30 July, 2010 in 8:01 am

Okay you have two options.

Tell your boss to give me your 9-5 job and then you can babysit my 3 year old cat and 6 month old kitten. I can then pay you $7.75 (more than state minimum) per hour for a maximum of 2 hours per day from the money I’d be getting from your past 9-5 job.