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'I earn almost £100K from picking up dog poo'
Emma Garner now earns more than four times her former salary and is fully booked with hundreds of weekly customers.
- Wakefield resident Emma Garner launched The Dog Poo Professionals in 2014 and turned it into a full-time career in 2016 after being made redundant from her law firm job. She now earns more than four times her previous salary.
- Finding her corporate role "stressful," Garner worked as a claims assessor for 11 years before reading about an American dog waste business that inspired her to launch her own venture. She posted on Facebook and secured her first customer within 10 minutes.
- Serving hundreds of clients across Yorkshire, Garner used her earnings to purchase a four-bedroom semi-detached house worth $258,000. Prices start at $18.50 per week for one dog, with $5.30 for each additional pet.
- Garner rejects the stereotype that her customers are lazy, emphasizing she serves clients with complex needs including the elderly, pregnant, visually impaired, and surgeons seeking to keep hands clean for work. Her service addresses diverse life situations.
- Describing the career shift as the "best thing she has ever decided to do," Garner now works a third of her previous hours while earning significantly more. She is recruiting a new staff member with plans to semi-retire.
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Yorkshire Woman Quit Law Firm To Pick Up Dog Poo — Now Earns 4x More And Bought A £195K Home
Emma Garner earns more than four times what she made sitting behind a desk at a national law firm. She works roughly a third of the hours. The difference is that her income now comes entirely from picking up dog poo in people's gardens across West and South Yorkshire. Garner, 45, of Wakefield, runs The Dog Poo Professionals, a pet waste and care business she founded in 2014 and turned it into her full-time career two years later. She previously …
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Yorkshire Evening Post'I quit my 9-5 job to pick up dog poo - now I'm earning more money than ever'
An animal lover has told how she has been able to buy a house - from picking up dog poo.
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