By working.

A lot.

Case closed.

Yeah the title is shitty like "why do these plebes make 6 figures?!"

She started a business in 2014 for boutique pet care.

She literally has a mature individually-owned business with a captive clientele that has increased in recent years and she works twelve hours a day seven days a week. How tf is this news. She’s a business owner who is making very low six-figures in the single most expensive 23 square miles in the entire world.

If she was smart she should sell ❄️on her walks. Turn that into a extra $100k tax free

100k in nyc for all that work feels damn reasonable. NYTimes loves to make everyone who isn’t worth $10M+ angry at each other.

They are not dog walkers. They are dog walking business owners who employ dog walkers and likely pay them a lot less.

i get ads for shit like get paid for walking, if that stuff is legit they can earn more passive income while doing their regular day to day

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It's always funny when you hear how much some people make in NYC, and then you find out how many hours they work per week.

Most professionals working 40 hours of overtime per week would also make that much or more lol

I was a dog walker once. The con about this job is that you gotta scoop up dog's feces, which I didn't enjoy very much.

Correction. You're supposed to clean up dog feces. I've seen dog walkers by me do the glance around and walk away move plenty of times though.

“how is this news” needs to stop. News organizations do more than just tell you the breaking details of the latest tragedy. they have been doing features like this for hundreds of years.

They imply that it’s some random millenial who walks dogs as a hobby but for some reason she makes $100k from it. But it’s a business owner who started a business. I am also a business owner and there’s no there there to write about. There are probably close to a hundred thousand small business owners in NY metro who make average money that don’t have disingenuous articles about them misrepresenting through clickbait headlines what their business model actually is, or that they have a business model at all. The opposite is implied in this headline. This woman owns a business that she created. It’s literally not news.

It must be a slow news day

I get where you’re coming from but a business owner is 100% worthy of being written about. I thought the article was solid and the title didn’t come off as disingenuous to me, a business owner capitalizing on the pandemic puppy trend is a solid small business topic.

That’s nothing, waiters at fancy pant restaurants make $500 in tips a shift, networking is more of a money maker than a resume in non STEM fields

You can make 100,000 washing cars too…. If you own a few car washing places.

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To hit 100k walking dogs at $35 per walk, you'd need to do 57 walks per week, with two weeks off.

Walking more than one dog at a time, that's actually not impossible to do as one person. I see walkers with a dozen dogs in the park all the time.

Let me guess.

By walking lots of dogs..

Basically.

Most dog walkers I see are walking 3+ dogs at a time.

Just walking?

That sounds interesting.

they prob get tips?

i wouldnt be surprised if the hours are kinda demanding;; ie show up before 6-7am and/or show up middle of day etc

Tips are probable, since it's a service position.

For the sake of maintaining your clientele, I assume you'd be stuck to their hours, instead of planning it around your own.

But, it's possible with a good client list one could have better hours, or rely on tips more regularly, along with consistent work. Makes it easier.

They’re selling cocaine

How do they make money? By working…

NY Times loves to fucking poke at the bottom 98%

Precisely

NGL sounds a little bitter. I think a lot of those industry would help their employees become very well off if they paid OT. Like legally making an extra six-figure or two instead of the accepted fraud from places like the MTA / NYPD / LIRR workers.

I could be wrong but outside of finance, a lot of salaried employees who might work 60 hour weeks, have an equal number of weeks where they're thumb twiddling for barely 20 hours of work + other great benefits.

You also learn as you grow in your career on how to establish boundaries. Covid 19 and the influx of remote work helped a lot of people create a culture of this.

>NGL sounds a little bitter.

How? When someone says "I make $150K on Wall Street but work 80 hours per week", you can quickly do the math and find out their hourly rate for their work is in the same ballpark as most other professionals. They just work a ton of overtime. That makes that profession so much less desirable for me. I feel almost the exact opposite of bitter: I feel bad for them if that's how many hours they have to work and that's all it gets them.

I have no clue where you're going with the rest of this. Most people aim to work 40 hours or less and then do whatever they want with the rest of their time. Some people apparently make similar hourly rates as the rest of us but give up most of the rest of their week to make more money.

I'm saying IB are outliers. They're abused early but they get bonuses during that abuse at the end of the year. and if they survive 2-4 years, they work normal hours or even less for multiple millions of dollars every year.

I would never take 80 hours of week of abuse but an occasion 50-60 hours week for decent pay has it's value. Especially knowing i'll have 20 hour work weeks. And once you're established it's easier to say no to the 50 hour requests, which is why job hiring can be ageist.

It's easy to get a 21 year old to accept terrible working conditions. I remember thinking early in my career that just because I don't have kids doesn't means I'm not entitled to protecting my personal time.

Yeah but talking about how bosses exploit their staff might rile up the plebs, so instead here's a "feel good" story about a child selling lemonade to cover their friends medical bills!

Yeah, they could just say she's a successful dog walker and tell her story no reason to bring up the $100k

There’s a guy near me on the UES that regularly walks 14 dogs at a time. Even at a really conservative rate of just $20/hour that’s $280 an hour.