Riverview man trades Alberta job for messy business venture in N.B.

Watch above: Shelley Steeves with a man who is making the best of the economic situation, by scooping up something other people do their best to avoid.

RIVERVIEW, N.B. – Scott Horsman is the kind of guy who likes to make the most out of a messy situation.

For the last 10 years, he’s worked as a crane operator in the Alberta oil patch, but has seen opportunities there disappear.

“I was out there for the last recession and I know the trends so I figured that I needed to find something for home,” he said.

So, left Alberta and came back home to New Brunswick so he could spend more time with his wife and two young kids in Riverview.

But he needed to find a job. Which is, as it turns out, exactly what he did.

“We have two young kids and she had to pick up our dog poop and she didn’t like it cause it took a lot of time away,” he said.

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By she, he meant his wife, Barbie, who looked after the kids alone while Horsman was away for weeks.

“I used to say, ‘Oh it would be so nice if I could just call someone and get them to come over and clean it up,'” she said.

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So, Scott traded black gold for brown treasures and just a few weeks ago launched his new company, called “Call of Doodie.”

“So I figured, hey, that might be a business I can get into.”

Now he spends his time cleaning up dog poop, a job that everyone hates.

Moncton’s Joanne Cameron said she could barely step into her back yard after the snow melted last week.

“It was the winter collection and it was horrible it was like all over the back yard so I said no I can’t do this,” she said.

Horsman was there, ready to scoop up all of her problems.

“It’s not the money I was making out west but it’s something we can live with at home and we can definitely make a change for the better too,” he said.

So he can be at home to watch his kids grow up. Dirty job or not, he says there’s nothing better.

“You know my kids are everything and I just love them to death and it’s awesome to be home.”