What is a typical day as a dog trainer

The day usually starts with phone calls; returning calls from potential clients, advertisers wanting your business, follow up calls to past clients, etc. There is always paperwork to be done. Client records to update, preparing homework for the clients, documenting cash flow, paying bills and making sure you have good documentation for everything. I have received calls from past advertisers going back 2 1/2 years wanting to know if I wanted to close my account, without good documentation one wouldn't know when the account was already closed and you could end up paying more then you need to.
After all of the boring stuff is done then you get to go have fun on the road. A normal day is 4 visits, if you have some close together you can do 5 or 6. I cover over a 50 mile radius so 4 or 5 is my max. No matter how hard you try to schedule clients that are close to each other on the same day, sometimes the times and days just don't work out so you do the best you can. Working with the dogs is the best feeling ever when you see them start to understand what it is you are trying to communicate. Then you train the humans to handle the dog in the same manner so the dog doesn't get confused, this can be more difficult then training the dog. All in all dog training is a great profession, the down side is; don't expect to get rich doing it. It is more a labor of love then a real money maker.