If it hasn’t happened to you, there is at least one person you know that has just had it with a job. Some people are living that way right now, but go back day after day for various reasons. Well for Matt Hein, that type of life will no longer do. He’s left a high paying job in finance, to walk dogs in the woods.
“You have to get in in the morning before your boss, and you have to leave after your boss because that way your boss thinks, you’re working much harder than you are,” said Hein. “It’s a competition for who can be sat at their desk pretty much wasting their life. That’s not a way to live your life.”
Now Hein walks dogs in in the woods, in Norway. This career change so far has yielded great results for him. Hein is finally a happy guy.
Fredrik Harper, a Norwegian filmmaker, made a documentary on Hein. The film Portrait of a Dogwalker gives a glimpse into Hein life, and why he left a high paying finance gig to see if there was a happier life for him somewhere for him.
Norway apparently doesn’t really have much in the way of dog walking services. Noticing the shortage in such things, Hein decided to start there.
“I thought, wow, there’s an opportunity here. I’d love to be out there five days a week,” he said in the film. “I basically get paid to be an adventurer and hang out with dogs. It’s so easy to think in our heads, ‘Oh, I can’t do this because I’ve got this and I’ve got that,’” he says. “No! Just change.”
For now, Hein is happy. Hopefully he will be for a long time.
Magda Szachniewicz Ewa Bogusławska Gosia Lehkunow
I wish I had the balls to do something like this.
Yay, Matt !
I wish I didn’t have people depending on me: I’d quit my job right away to volunteer with animals full time. I’m looking forward to my retirement! 🙂
:))
Karen Rolfes Goodspeed
I love you!!
Lauren Kattan Um ya…..
i actually did this in february… it’s a leap of faith 🙂
Michaela Hägg
I will do it very soon. From the 6th of April I will work only part time 😉
I worked for 10 years in the corporate world and grew tired of all the stress and not being happy. May will be 10 years ago I quit and started my pet sitting biz. Best thing I ever did!
I was going to share this but it is so badly written/edited that I decided not too. I wish you guys would improve your editing.
Life is about finding happiness. Different people find different jobs satisfying.
Nice very Nice respect
I walk dogs for an hour twice a month it’s the best time of the month!!
I wish I could walk dogs for a living.It just doesnt have health insurance as a bonus
My deepest respect to him. I’ll go that extra mile any day for a dog.
That is great for him, but most of us cannot afford to do that!
Jolanta Polk ….wink wink
At 2.30pm on Thursday, 3 November, 2005 (my birthday, actually) I walked out of a well-paid job that I had done for 16 years and which was destroying me. Never went back. Looking back, I should have done it sooner. You, hopefully, can get another job but you can’t get back the part of your life that you have wasted.
that I can really understand
Fabulous!
GOOD FOR YOU
Omg i want!
Good for you, sir!
Right behind ya Matt!!! Life is too short! Gotta know where the dividing line is between earn it…then enjoy it!!!”
Enjoy everything around you.
money isnt everything. if youre not happy with what youre doing, you end up using everything you earn to pay for a shrink. a very inspiring decision
Good for him! I quit my job after 10 years of downhill misery. Best decision ever!
U rock! what courage…what peace!
If I wernt married….
Super
Mads Austad
Lucky dogs..
Michelle Thompson-Duncan Your next endeavor?
Erin Rogers – after today this looks AMAZING!! Did you show this to Ripley? He’s been extra snuggly tonight
I walk dogs for a living…….best job ever 🙂
Michelle
Next best career move!
living life to the fullest
For years now my dream is to buy a big ranch and be able to save as many dogs as I can………That would be the perfect life for me!
Brilliant !
I started my business last year. … best thing ever! ❤
As soon as I can afford to, I will retire and spend my days devoted to rescue animals. I’d love to focus on special needs pets.
bless you probably more enjoyable
I want to marry him
Sparrow, looks like you are in an amazing field!
I left the most agonizing career ever (for me anyway) last year after 15 years in the field. I hated going to work every day, so I can completely relate. Leaving that job was the best decision I ever made!!!!
Awesome!
God bless you your job will now finally have a purpose and dogs never let you down like the world does god bless you