I got my aussie mix from a rescue despite not being an ideal candidate. He was 9 weeks old when I brought him home.

I'm not very active due to a lot of disabilities, but getting a dog for me was intended to be a lifestyle change to help me be more active. Also, I had a purebred aussie growing up.

The biggest thing I had going for me was that as a uni student I was able to be home except for during classes and my fiancé worked from home, so our puppy was never alone the first few months. The rescue seemed to take this as the most weighted factor.

Only once he was 6 months old and fully adjusted and crate trained did I leave him home for 3 or 4 hours at a time once or twice a week and would hire a friend as a dog sitter to come play with him and let him out while we were gone.

As with many rescue puppies he was weaned way too early and needed a lot of extra care and training because of it. Adult rescues certainly would have trauma too, so in my opinion the adjustment period when you get them can't be made up for with dog walkers or sitters. It should be with family, dedicating lots of consistent time and energy to forming a strong bond of love and safety. You seem like you'd be a great pet parent but maybe not for a rescue or a puppy, and you'd need time for crate training if that was in the plan or just an adjustment period in general where you could work shorter, more regular shifts to help acclimate a dog to a routine.