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What is a good career path for a wannabe dog trainer?

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pThis is directed specifically to people that train dogs for a living, whether its basic puppy obedience or competition agility or sheep herding or showing or whatever the important thing is that a major source of your income actually involves working with dogs, because I can Google or am I supposed to say quotyahooquot here generic information myself.Starting from training my own dogs as a hobby, reading a ton of books Im a big Patricia McConnell and Monks of New Skete fan and magazines, watching videos and seminars, and participating in lists on the internet, where do I go next for actual workAnswer with your story and real life experience. What did you do, how did you get to where you are What worked and didnt work What would you do differently if you started over again Are there particular sources of information you prefer Do you make enough money training, or do you do other things to supplementThanks in advance for your insightful, real world responses.Thanks for the response lizzy. Ive seen other dog trainer questions around these parts and there is much bashing of quottrainersquot that work at Petco and Petsmart. To the trainer community in general, would it be fair to say that maybe its not the best place to get your own dog trained, but its a good place to gain some experience yourself Or is working there also somehow subpar In terms of companies that are actually hiring, those two are always up there.p