Also called: Backstretch Chaplain
Serves the grooms, hot walkers and jockeys who live and work in the barns behind horse racetracks, with counseling, classes and help in emergencies.
Before dawn you walk the backstretch with coffee as grooms muck stalls. You run a small chapel service, help a worker from Guatemala find a clinic, organize English classes, and visit a jockey in the hospital after a fall. Many backstretch workers move from track to track, so you are their steady friend.
Often paid through donations; some are part-time.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's or seminary degree plus chaplaincy training.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Divinity, Theology, Social Work.
Growing about average. A small ministry at most major tracks.
Low risk for 10 years. Nothing here is easily automated; being present at 5 a.m. in the barns and caring for workers stay human.
Classes: Spanish, Psychology, Health.
Official data: O*NET occupation 21-2011.
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