Most Interesting Homeowner Jobs

Neither have I. No idea what that is.

I think it’s amazing the type of HO THS attracts in terms of jobs and lifestyles.
I’ve been lucky enough to sit for a number of interesting people. I’ve sat for a retired national broadcaster and his wife. They’d lived in a number of locations due to his job. The sit in the most expensive property (8 figures) was for a recently retired partner in Deliotte and his also retired deputy editor of a national newspaper who had recently had a couple of best selling books with a testimonial from a well known actress that was a friend.
I do a regular sit for a couple where then husband sold his business for a rather large sum of money. I’ve equally sat for a brilliant woodworker that made to order cat secure outside play areas.
Lastly I did a sit for a well known Canadian voice actress that lived in Italy. She showed me this room with all sorts of equipment for her job I was asked not to go near!

You’d think they could afford a cleaner!! :face_with_crossed_out_eyes:

@richten1 they had a cleaner who didn’t actually arrive until the day before I left. She said she spends a day cleaning but next day it is just as bad, she was very frustrated also. Two children who as well think being dirty and grossly untidy is the norm. It all begins at home as they say.

@Oztravels I did a sit in Los Angeles. On a small table in an inconspicuous area were two items standing alone. Not being into any type of sports I asked ‘Oh, what were those for?’ They looked like someone tossing a ball to me. Turns out they were Emmys.

As you can guess, I’m also not much of a TV or film buff. I was so glad I didn’t ask what sport they were for. The husband was a famous film editor and producer, including one long-running TV show that most people both sides of the Atlantic would recognize. I teased him, asking why he didn’t tell me he was famous but he felt he was not. To challenge that answer I asked if the lead actor was in his phone contacts and he said yes and that they talked regularly, even though the show was by then only in reruns. He was a modest and lovely man, as was his wife.

Lucky for you guys. :slightly_smiling_face:
BTW Loving the vids from you and hubby.

Actor, prize winning author, artist, marine biologist…

Lots of people with careers in education / care / health service / charities or other fields that have similarities to my work.

Also the sit we never got to do, for a wildlife documentary director, just as COVID travel restrictions were being lifted. After being limited to filming wildlife documentaries in his own back garden (yes, he really did!) he was told to pack his bags for a trip to Greenland, and the family holiday had to be cancelled.

I love this post, we’re always amazed by the different HO’s we get to meet and our paths would never have crossed without pet sitting, it’s so interesting, we’ve had:

A successful horse jockey - photographed with the queen.
An educational/learning entrepreneur - photographed with the king.
A marine biologist - who’d been to amazing places, in the name of work.
A freeman - granted freedom of a city.
Multiple published authors/writers, multiple property investors, landowners, entrepreneurs, & a lot more.

The list goes on and on, it’s so varied & it’s ever so interesting

@HappyDeb we have done a sit where one of the hosts has a photograph with the king and the other has a photograph with the late Queen, both taken in the course of their work. There is also a framed letter of thanks from the Queen’s private secretary in the downstairs toilet!

Just thinking if you take that sit we’ve been chatting about, @Debbie then there are pics of the host with Obama, Clinton, Bush, an awful lot of Olympians and a few other famous faces, all in the downstairs loo. #addtothefun

I feel so inadequate @Cuttlefish. My downstairs loo is a gallery of my puffin and gannet photos :face_with_peeking_eye:

We sat for a screenwriter of some pretty amazing films.

@ziggy was it PH?

@Crookie no :wink: