Duh, Equestria isn’t so corporate-focused as pre-covid America, there exists welfare-ish jobs with specific services and needs.

@Mugen Kagemaru  

 
I always thought she got paid to basically be Wildlife Services for Ponyville. Considering what might come out of the Everfree on any random day, they’d probably pay her pretty well for that.

0/10
 
would not befriend OP, nor give magical drinking potion to transport OP to Equestria.

And again, we already know Fluttershy actually is self-employed. She does pet grooming as a business and almost certainly ends up doing general animal health care, given we see things like mice in casts and such at her home.
 
Freeloader, she definitely is not.

To be fair, Fluttershy wasnt freeloading at her parents house like her brother.

@MadVillan  
You forget that the reason his behavior was a problem was not because he wasn’t making money but because he was mooching off of his family, something which fluttershy was not to doing, so your entire argument falls apart because fluttershy had every right to call out zephyr for his actions.
 
@MadVillan  

 
OK, now you’re just making stuff up.

@ChuymaruZ  
To me, OP’s point seems to be he finds it easier to imagine that Fluttershy is sponging off her friends and family and being a hypocrite than that she’s getting paid for her animal caretaking or some similar tasks.
 
That’d be like someone claiming that Twilight just views Spike as her personal slave, or that Celestia actually hates Luna and is trying to suppress her, or– oh wait, yeah, forgot about this being the internet. Carry on, then.

@ChuymaruZ  
Ok the TL:DR is that the debate is that Fluttershy has various sort of jobs related to her animal actives including Adopting out pets, animal control and animal grooming.

@Master Fox  
I dont read the comments and Im not saying that op is right, just has a point

@ChuymaruZ  
This a Troll comment or did you ignore the whole 3 pages of conversation/debate about if Fluttershy has a job or not. I can see that comment triggering someone.

actually… op has a point…

@Master Fox  
I think Twilight counts as richest, though, because princess?
 
You know, she does… Princess things :p

@Cirrus Light  
Lets not forget Animal Adoption or something along that line, she sang with the poison joke so her animal friends could get adopted. Also bear masseuse, he looked so chill after getting his neck snapped. In the intro she was getting birds to sing in a chorus AND she was the only one officially allowed to go see the Breezies and escort them through Ponyville. She’s got that wildlife expert thing down.
 
Also further proof of her obvious disposable income. The episode with Iron Will she had someone who came and watered her plants for her and she got mad that he kept letting her mail get wet.
 
Maybe she just has a number of small jobs that add up together. In fact of the mane 6. Twilight is the only one who doesn’t really have a job anymore. It got blown up by Tirek. Dash is a Wonderbolt/Weather Service Pony. AJ has the farm. Pinkie Pie works at Sugar Cube Corner and plans Parties Vanwilder Style. Rarity has 3 boutiques so she’s the richest of em all. In the Capital City of Canterlot, in Ponyville and in the Metropolis Manehatten and all of them are apparently doing great.

@Red Cedar  
IRL: Dog Kennels.
 
@Background Pony #AA23  
IRL: Park ranger, animal Control. As mentioned here: Master Fox’s comment also adds the possibility of “animal-pony arbiter/negotiator.” Probably Equestria’s version of “Animal Control.”
 
@Background Pony #5691  
Wait, IRL? Dang. That’s freakishly awesome. Seems almost unfair :p

“If a tv show or cartoon doesn’t show someone getting a paycheck, you can’t prove that it ever happens.”
 
Me quoting myself - 2016

Remember guys, jobs that aren’t cool and manly enough don’t make you a living, OP said so

@Background Pony #30E2  
According to the CCG, just as Twilight is the Princess of Friendship, the other 5 have the title of Ambassador of (respective element). In her case, Ambassador of Kindness.

Canonically, she at least has a pet grooming service.

@Background Pony #30E2
 
I could see her home being a wildlife rescue/rehab. A friend’s boss actually gets to live rent free in a huge house on the grounds of a similar institution, just because they require someone to be on premesis overnight. Seems like something the crown would fund.
 
Perhaps the possible pets fluttershy showed RD were animals that came to her for aid then decided not to leave, preferring a pony aided existence. Being willing to move on as an animal companion if requested could be a stipulation of staying at the cottage once recovered.

At least she has a place of her own and does things fully without giving up.

@Background Pony #AA23
 
Lunaverse claims she has a powerful family, and even without it, maybe her friends give her something akin to an allowance, so she can support herself without bankrupting them?
 
Sounds like something Rainbow Dash would do. Pay off Fluttershy’s bills alongside her own, with Twilight, Applejack(?) and Rarity helping out post-NMM.
 
That said, I still firmly believe that she gets paid to be a veterinarian for wild animals.

“taking care of wild animals doesn’t pay off whatsoever”  
[citation needed]
 
Seriously, I’d love OP’s theory on how Fluttershy afford[s|ed] her house, as well as how she pays for all the animal feed and other supplies she needs to care for them.

Fluttershy is supported financially from her longtime husband. Dude works like crazy hours, so he’s never seen.

Whoever made this is ignorant. While Fluttershy takes care of animals and occasionally someone else’s, Zephyr literally did nothing while living/leaning with his family for support.