You might not think you're ready to start your own pet service but you are...

An excerpt from "The Dog Walker & Pet Sitter Bible"

Experience required:

I don’t know where in life you are as you read this book, but back before I started my pet service I had no clue what job was right for me. When I looked at want ads in newspapers it was like they were written in Chinese. The skills I had learned so far in life didn’t seem to apply to a specific trade and there didn’t seem to be a job for me. How many times have we seen the words “experience required” written in a want ad for a job? And it prompts the age-old question: how do you ever get experience if no one will hire you without experience? Well, if there were a want ad describing the pet service you are about to create, you’d also see “experience needed” written. But you know what? No matter who you are, you have the experience needed to create a pet service. In fact you’re likely much more prepared to create this pet service than you realize.

Maybe you feel the same way in your life right now that I did when I started Downtown Pets? Maybe you’re coming from a job that involved you monotonously doing the same process over and over and over again? Or maybe you’re coming from a job where you were an assistant to someone? Or waited on people? Maybe you’re coming from a job you felt held you back and didn’t allow you to completely realize your true talents? When you work jobs you are not passionate about it can hurt your spirit. But without even realizing it you have been collecting and honing skills from all these jobs, good and bad. For some, like myself, it took creating a business of my own to finally tap into these skills I’d developed.

Past work experiences:

I did something very helpful early on in my business. I sat down and created a list of all my past jobs and my past bosses. I wrote down a list of all the positive and negative things I’d learned from these jobs and it turned out to be very educational for me. I was surprised to discover I’d probably learned more from my bad bosses than my good ones. I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about how valuable failures and mistakes are because they allow you to learn from them, to grow and to improve yourself. It might sound cliché until you start running your own business. The good and bad experiences of your past jobs are so real to you and they can positively be applied to your pet service. No matter your work or life experiences, you already have a rich history of experience to pull from.

BUY THE BOOK