There’s little doubt that when you work for someone you take on a certain degree of risk. When a pet sits on your lap, you’re potentially spending an additional $4,000 a year. But you also need to consider the fact that most dog sitting businesses aren’t registered as a “teaching institution” like an academy or zoo—which could raise or lower your potential salary and the amount of time you give the pet sitting job.

Does pet sitting provide income for a business?

If you’re a pet sitting business, your total income (including food and lodging, as well as commissions from service and other business) can go up and down as your business grows. The biggest spike is likely when you have an increase in business income from the number of dogs your business takes in.

The bottom line

The first thing to keep in mind is that pet sitting is a business, and like many businesses, it will continue to change depending on the types of services it offers and the types of customers who want it. The key is to keep your focus on your customers, and how they benefit from being close to your pups.

The Trump administration announced this week that it was lifting its ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, ending a policy President Obama put into place in 2011 after the Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay military service three years earlier.

In a letter to all military and government personnel, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who took office in January, explained that the military’s “long-standing policy remains that an individual’s determination as to whether to serve or not will be made on a voluntary basis, and there will be no adverse impact on the ability of those currently serving to do so.” He also clarified that the decision was not driven by the President’s recent statements on transgender rights.

But that isn’t how transgender service members who have been serving openly since 2014 — or transgender service members already serving in the military — feel.

“It was my honor when I was able to serve. It was my honor to serve,” former Airman 1st Class Christopher Bledsoe-Baldwin, who won a Bronze Star while transgender, told me. He joined the Air Force as a member of the Air Force Reserve on Dec. 12, 2015. That same day, Bledsoe received an email from his commander with a news item that mentioned his potential assignment. The email stated that transgender women and transgender men could now be drafted and that

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