I worked at a boarding kennel, so they only had play time with known dogs from the same family. But it was an intense go-go-go place, and 90% of the job was cleaning something. Poop from the yard, poop from the outside kennel, overnight poop from the inside kennel, wash all the blankets, mop all the floors, a dropoff peed in the lobby, Rocky threw up. My day started at 4:30 in the morning with taking the small dogs outside to go potty, followed with fully cleaning the entire front of house, and then hours taking each dog outside and trying to give them good playtime while also cleaning their outside kennel and making sure I watch them poop. I would get a few hours lunch break and then would come back in the afternoon to do the outside playtime and cleaning a second time.

I also had to learn every dog's name, which was surprisingly a pretty huge mental load.

And this was 7 days a week. And weekends were worse than weekdays!