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here we go, last night i had a person tell me farming wasn't a real job. wanna know why? cuase you don't get paid every week.do you think she is from the city? unbelievable
 
Dare I ask the context of this conversation?

As to getting paid weekly, that would rule out teachers and extension agents, Ive done both and got paid once a month. In fact, I cant think of any job outside of a few of the trades that get paid more than twice a month.
 
I've been on a farm all my life, raised on, educated, married, raised my family, for 60 some odd years. Through good times and bad, happy and sad. The guy is right, farming is NOT a job, its a way of life. It still beats the heck out of any other job around. Weather you get paid weekly, weakly, or bi-weekly has nothing to do with it, it's still the best life going.
 
I have heard that many times in my life and take it as a complement. Spent some time on FSA,School board,& Farm Bureau, all very much like farming good, bad and low pay. A farmer is the only busines that buys retail sells wholesale and pays trucking both ways!
 
I usually stay quiet on these matters but you hit the nail on the head. Farming is a way of life...I chose it even though I wasn"t "born" on the farm. Both grandparents had farms and that"s all I ever wanted to do. After high school, I started with my (now) ex father-in-law and although I didn"t have the monetary support, I had lots of encouragement and support from family. I bought and restored equipment, raised milk and beef cattle, hogs, and run about 400 acres while holding down a 9 hr/day off farm job. It was a good life for nearly twenty years...and then the economics went to pot. I would never trade those years for anything. It was real life...you learn to take the good with the bad and how to survive. Those that think the farming isn"t a real job have never experienced a real life...
 
I never looked up the definition of "JOB" but she must live in a dark world if she thinks farming is not a job. I would consider it a livelyhood like any other job.

My dad always said too that the farmer is the only one who buys retail and sells wholesale.

One saying I like to pass on to people is;

You make a living by what you get and a life by what you give.

So many people think the farmer is dumb but they are only covering up their own ignorance of the subject.

Happy Holidays Everyone!!
 
I would agree that farming is not a job, it is more of an obsession, if it was a job I don' think anyone would be able to cover the overtime. Most jobs pay an hourly wage or salary. If we were able to collect dollars for all the time we spend doing unplanned repairs, trips to parts unknown for parts, and all the other things that we accept as part of the gig, we would all be wealthy. I guess it is an occupation, not a job. Dave
 
It is not a job. When you have a job, you work for someone else, do what they tell you to do and draw a paycheck. When the work day is over you go home. (Does not apply to union laborers)

Farmering is a business and the owner is an entrepreneur with his investment at risk. As the owner/operator a farmer makes all decisions and determines how much he withdraws to live on and how much is reinvested.
 
I agree it is NOT a job. It is a way of life.

Some might consider it a business, and it is. But it is different than any other business that I can think of. If there are two competing business in town, neither of them is willing to tell the other of a new tactic or strategy that made them more successful. Yet any farmer is more than willing to tell his neighbor about something that increased his yield or profitability.

In my mind saying it is not a job is a compliment. If you have hired help, they have a job. Now if they meant it was not WORK, then I'd be insulted.
 
Seems that it would be more like a labor of love. If you thought as most young people do anymore....
You would have to make more than $10.00 / hr
You would need paid time and a half, after 40 hours
You can't more than 60 hours a week
You can't work all 3 shifts in one week
You would need a scheduled lunch, and 2 break times
You're only out in bad weather when you drive a car

Handle cow poo????????
Was that in the job description???

Yeah, I'd say it's a labor of love. And I wouldn't trade it for anything
 
When I got the chance to go to New York City. I took a good look at the culture. While I can't say for certain one life is significantly better than the other, I did think about how insignificant the average city dwellers life seems. They live in a small apartment that they pay outrageously for, alot of them have never driven anything as only a very small percentage of people living there have cars, and they certainly don't have lawns to mow. They have a job probably in an office cubical with middle managers and bosses galore and thats life for them. This is where the phrase "clothes make the man" comes from because they don't own much else.

Me? well I just can't see myself giving up everything for that lifestyle. There are some perks to city life as well such as being able to travel easier, since the less you own the easier you can leave it. I can't see myself totally giving up tractors, maple sugaring, and all the stuff a country boy enjoys.
 
I am not sure what it really is, once I thought it was a sickness that couldn't be cured. Anyway I found out it certainly is an addiction, more costly than drugs or alcohol. The sad part of it is that I don't want to be cured.
 
You need City Slickers, they buy the products the farmers make, if it wasn't for the City slickers, the farmers would be broke...
 
Yea,I just look at city people as some kind of dosposable drones that must be doing some kind of clerical something that has something to do with getting goods and services to me. That and consumers to eat what I produce. They must be dispensable. They seem to keep replacing themselves with new ones somehow.
 
everybody gets replaced. Theres been farmers for hundreds of years as well. Like I said, there are perks to both country and city life. The average city person is exposed to lots of interesting things such as travel, museums, and food. NYC has got some fabulous museums unlike any I have ever seen before. There is always something interesting to take in. I could see what the big draw to NYC is. I just wished I had more time to see and experience it instead of just a few hours. I felt like an ant walking around in that city with all the tall skyscrapers. Central park is nice too, but its not some place you go to be alone. Actually, I didn't see any places where you could be alone the whole while I was there, unless perhaps your own apartment or possibly the bathroom. Even in your apartment you'd be crammed in like sardines with close neighbors. It truely is the city that never sleeps, just visit the webcams at any hour and see lots of people still walking the streets. If you enjoyed nightlife, then where I live would be about as boring as watching paint dry, but if you lived in the city you'd be in heaven. My sister lives in this town and hates it, she hates the smell of the dairy farms and the whole lot.
 
It is a lifestyle, some people have a bigger business than others. I think that some BTO's are more in the realm of managers, but they are a minority.
 
That is true but rural people will survive. Many farmers have been broke and continue to farm. How many City slickers would survive without someone to sell them the food?


"The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." -William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold, Speech given at the Democratic National Convention, July 9, 1896
 

The question city folks should always be asked:
The farmers can live with out city folk, but can the city folk live with out farmers?

I had a city person say they could live with out farmers... I would like to see it. This person also thought guns should be out lawed and animals should be set free..

All of this being said while eating a hamburger.
 
Doesn't matter how many acres you farm, or how many cattle you have, farming is something you have in your blood and can't get rid of. Dad always said if you never want to work a day in your life, love what you do. I have been lucky enough to have had two chances to do that. Once designing and building special machines. And once still farming a few acres, and lovin' it.
Paul
 
It's Not true when Farmers go broke --- will continue to farm,,, they lose there Farms to the City dwellers == The Government folks live in the City -- and will take the Farms over and do the farming ... most farmers don't think beyond the farm and lose out... they NEED the City folks more then they need each other....
 
(quoted from post at 05:12:29 12/25/08) It's Not true when Farmers go broke --- will continue to farm,,, they lose there Farms to the City dwellers == The Government folks live in the City -- and will take the Farms over and do the farming ... most farmers don't think beyond the farm and lose out... [b:72baf2cefe] they NEED the City folks more then they need each other[/b:72baf2cefe]=....
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Yes you are right..

I should have left that part off..
 
I'll disagree I went broke in 1984 and lost everything I had. I did go back to work in town but as soon as I had saved a little money I started buying back in. It took me 15 years but I am back to farming full time. I'm not the only one that has done this I know of at least one other that posts on here that has done the same. And several in my area. But as others have said farming is an obsession and a preferred way of life and a way of survival.
 

It's not a "job" it's a business, I would describe farming as more of "owner of own business" than a "job" As others have mentioned, a job implies you are working for someone else for a paycheck for doing work on behalf of an employer as opposed to providing goods or services with the gross result going to your pocket.
 
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