If you love dogs and you have the training and ability to help dogs and their owners adjust behavior, then a career as a dog trainer might be just the right thing for you.
If you decide to create this as a business for yourself, it would be a good idea if you already own a dog.
Your own dog can be a testing center whenever you learn new methods of correcting behavior.
You can market yourself as an in home dog trainer and drive to people's homes all day, or you can create some kind of training center at your home, where people come with their dogs.
Be prepared to work at night and on weekends, since these are the times that most people are available.
You can fill your daytime slots with animals that need to stay with you, or you can adjust your business around weekend and evening work, allowing you to have your days free to do whatever you want.
People choose a trainer mainly based on 2 things: Type of training, and reputation of the trainer from their friends.
It will be important for your first few clients, to make sure that you are asking them for referrals and rewarding those clients that do bring new people in.
This business does not necessarily require that you have to have formal training, only that your techniques are successful for what the customer is paying for.
You also need to always be on the lookout for new training techniques in the industry.
You can develop levels of training, starting with house training and moving up to agility courses, helping with the blind, and police animals.
No matter what route you pick, create a niche for yourself, so that when someone has that specific problem with their dog, they know who to visit.