Posted by mkirsch on August 09, 2012 at 10:43:30 from (64.80.110.74):
In Reply to: start in farming posted by nick girgen on August 08, 2012 at 23:56:02:
No offense intended here but most high school kids with big pie-in-the-sky dreams of starting a farm when they graduate don't have the maturity to handle the responsibility.
Every 17-18 year old kid that Dad hired would sit there and talk for hours with a gleam in their eye about some day buying his farm and taking over.
All they had to do was show up at 5AM and do morning milking THREE days a week. NONE of them could even handle that. They'd go out and get plastered, and couldn't wake up the next morning.
Most kids have to go through a phase in their late teens and early twenties to get the "screw up" out of their systems. Maybe you're one of those rare ones that got his head screwed on straight at an early age. If so, have at it.
My advice is, keep the dream in the back of your head, and live life. Come back to it in a few years when you've sown your wild oats.
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