I rode rough stock when I was younger. The bulls tried their best to stomp me into the ground.
I will confess to the exact opposite - I was a complete greenhorn at the time, who knew next to nothing about horses (& absolutely nothin' about bull riding). But due to a strange set of circumstances, I actually got paid while being on horseback (how about that?). It took another twenty-plus years before I learned enough to be useful around horses (pickin' stalls ;>)...