Posted by Goose on April 02, 2015 at 06:23:53 from (70.198.32.180):
Seems most people on this forum don't have much use for a BTO. Sometimes being a BTO isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I grew up across the road from a fellow who eventually got into a race with about three other farmers to see who could become the biggest farmer in the county. He had a full time hired man, a big chartreuse Steiger, a couple of the biggest row crop tractors of the era, smaller tractors and all of the appropriate sized equipment to go with them. He farmed all over the county.
When he was in his late 50's, it dawned on him that during planting season he was going through 2 packs of Rollaids a day, just from the stress of getting it all coordinated and done. With the difference in soil and rainfall, some distant fields would be ready to work before others nearer, and it was a hassle just to organize and coordinate it all.
One day he asked himself, "Why am I doing this?" His hired man had been with him for 20 years and he didn't want to let the guy go, so he kept 240 acres of seed corn ground and a hog operation to keep his hired man busy, and said to hell with all the rest of it. Several years later, he died of some weird cancer, probably caused by all of the chemicals he'd been exposed to over the years.
The moral is, the grass is NOT always greener on the other side. Everyone needs to do their own thing. The ultimate outcome is always the same. Stick your finger into a bucket of water and pull it out. That's how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.
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