I just found out that Aaron Nelson, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, is looking to work for seven different chamber member organizations this summer.

I don't know how he will decide where he'll work, but I sent him an invitation to work for a day at the North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center. There he could serve as a side walker in a therapeutic riding class.

Surely this will attract him over an opportunity to work at a gas station if any are members. The smell of manure out here at the farm is far more attractive than the fumes permeating from the tanks.

I'm also convinced he'll want to work for NCTRC rather than spend a day at a local bank. Honestly, he'll get a headache trying to make sense of a moody stock market in between the growing financial crisis in Europe and the impact it could have on our already perilous financial status.

It also doesn't make sense to work at a newspaper, although the experience would allow him to see Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the alleyways or in the court rooms.

Maybe he could help the police catch the thief who stole my daughter's new bike in Southern Village where we live.

Maybe the construction boss on 15-501 near St. Thomas More is hiring. I don't think he's a chamber member, but he sure could use more construction workers to wrap up whatever it is they are doing. It seems like the line of orange cones are getting longer and giving us less space to maneuver in an already narrow lane on that route.

If Aaron's looking for a less stressful job, we have the perfect opportunity for him, out here under the wide blue sky at Clearwind Farm near Cane Creek.

It is not too far from Carrboro on Highway 54, and the benefits include horses, fresh air, time to reflect, physical labor and making new friends.

As a side walker, all he has to do is walk around in circles with the horse, two other volunteers, the therapist or the riding instructor, and keep his hand on the knee of a child with a disability.

More than 85 percent of the participants who sign up for therapeutic riding classes or for hippotherapy sessions are children under the age of 18. Hippotherapy is, simply put, physical therapy on a horse.

Aaron might meet Briana, 6, who is affected by autism spectrum disorder. She uses signs to communicate.

According to her mother, Tricia Wildman, Briana has seen several occupational and speech therapists since the age of 2.

"Each time she meets with a new therapist, she has major meltdowns, that is, until she came to NCTRC," she said. "So many things have happened there that have blown me away.

"On her first day in class, for example, Briana touched her horse's nose. This astonished me. It may not seem like a major victory. But it was very significant. She was connecting, for the first time, to an animal. She has never done this with other animals even the two dogs we have at home."

By the third class, Briana started talking when she gave her horse the verbal instruction to "go." The horse regulates her in a way she can focus on talking to her horse.

"She is a different child on a horse," said her mother.

Aaron's wife should encourage him to take this job. A benefit could include bringing their children to the farm.

They might take great delight in watching the goats climb up to the top of a hay bale, or riding on top of Trot, a wooden horse custom-made by the father of a riding instructor.

If this job doesn't appeal to him, I just found out on CNN this morning that McDonald's may retire Ronald. Maybe we can hire him instead.