Work as a grooming assistant. This is when you can start getting some hands-on experience with the daily work life of a professional groomer.
- Larger pet supply chains usually offer grooming services and regularly hire grooming assistants / bathers. In this job, you would do the general bathing work, while the trained groomer does the fine cleaning, trimming, and cutting.
- Being a grooming assistant is far from glamorous and not particularly lucrative, but chain stores often choose promising assistants for training programs to become groomers.