Professional pet sitter asks for someone to watch their own pets for free, community criticizes their request: 'People are just delusional'

Running a business is challenging, especially once you expand to the point that you need to hire people to help you manage the workload and, as it turns out, people expect to be paid for all that effort, cutting well into all those exponential profits you had been imagining. These people want some of your money… Can you believe that???

This is the thinking that a lot of people subscribe to when it comes to handling their growing business and personal affairs. And for some reason, types of "choosing beggar" posts seem to almost always center around some kind of child-care or pet-sitting. While child care is wildly expensive, it stands to reason that you'd want the person watching your pride and joy to be someone with a degree of professionalism and care around what they were doing—and not the only stranger that you were able to con into taking up the task on Facebook.

Further, when you work in that profession yourself, turning around and wanting someone to do that same job for free is about as ironic as you can get and requires leaps and bounds in logic that bottle the mind. Yet, that's what this pet sitter was seeking when they themselves sought a sitter for their own pets on this online community.