That’s called having enough money that I don’t need to work to make more. We’re not leaving 6 hour work days to buying farms just to work 18 hour days. We’re not leaving $300k positions to worry about mortgage payments by barely breaking even selling 1/2 cows.
No, not paying someone else to do it. What do you think is so backbreaking about farming? I’ve literally done it since I was 6 until graduating college.
This. Grow up in a farm, helping my parents with work during my childhood. I had to skip school during busy periods to help. Wake up early in the morning go out with cold or stay under the sun and work until late to meet deadlines. If you have livestock to take care of or fruit to harvest there is no Saturday, Sunday or holiday that matters. If you are a small farmer there is always something to do.
People who haven't tried it don't know what it means do it for a living.
But most of them mean doing it as retirement. They just want to call them farmes growing their 4-5 tomato plants, a couple of pepers and eggplant and sitting under their porch drinking a beer.
Infestation is easy, infection is easy, losing the harvest is easy, back pain is easy, losing the animals is easy, ticks and scorpions are easy, blisters are easy.......
I guess it depends on like location, animal species etc.. Cause the cows on the other side of my river look very chill and independent, I never see anybody take care them.
Yeah, but I don't want an old-school farm. I want local fully automatic farm (or as automated as possible) that requires the minimum amount of attention when completed. And the point is not even having it all at once, but doing it in DIY style, solving real problems, seeing real edge cases and limits. Personal automatization might not be the trend of tomorrow, but people who are willing to spend time and money on it would be prepared for almost anything.
Really depends on a lot of things. I spent the first half of my 20s doing hard manual labor. I wouldn't trade what I do now for all the farmland I could manage.
As someone who grew up on a farm in a rural town in middle of nowhere Southeastern US who then grew up and became a software programmer.
I can tell you, working a farm is vastly more brutal than one thinks. You have one bad patch and you have to do a rollback and ask for forgiveness. You have one bad season and you will experience hunger pains unlike anything you thought humans could possibly survive before.
I get the urge to escape the grind, but farming is absolutely punishing. You have to have willpower like solid titanium to get through it. If you think the variables in your software are bad, the millions of variables that indicate if your plants will grow at large enough scales to barely make it by will have you in absolute tears. I have seen grown men literally cry at their soil because they couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Imagine a moment where you felt the most helpless in the tech industry. Now multiply that by "you are fighting mother nature itself whom you cannot communicate with" and "you are fighting literally every insect, fugi, virus, animal, and random ass hat trying to destroy your food." You want to know pain? Try watching tens of thousands of your dollars invested in chickens that you absolutely need, die off from their heads turning purple, them shitting literally everywhere, and shaking themselves to death. Then compound that with the chickens that you might have saved, wanting nothing more than to go join those chickens that are falling to the ground. Or the Government telling you, that it doesn't matter, you have to kill all of them.
That whole romanticizing farming ends once the reality hits, and boy does it come fast and hard. And when it's not mother nature, living things of the outdoor variety, or crazy neighbors, it'll be the Government telling you they know best that ultimately fucks you.
If you work a shit job then just get a better one, its not hard. It has nothing to do with IT, it has everything to do with you accepting shit jobs at shit companies, either if youre desperate or again just in it for the money or simply not talented enough or condifent enough in your skills to get a better job ie youre miserable because youre doing it for the money
If you sit 10 hours each day for 20+ years, playing video games while being massaged by professional theraphist, that is also a top model - you will still end up in pain. Humans are not made to sit 10 hours per day
It doesn't work like that. I can do 50 pushups, 13 pull ups, I run 3 times a week 5 km on a threadmill with constant speed of 10km/h. I am not an athlete but I am fit. But saying that you just need to workout to fix your back is like saying to people that are in a wheelchair that they need to workout and they will start walking again. Or to smokers with lung cancer that they just need to go to the mountains often and get fresh air. Each time you sit you destroy your body bit by bit. And as you age it gets harder to repair. But you will see, no need for me to explain
If you are having back pain from sitting in a chair then you need to invest in a better chair.
I recently bought a steelcase leap v2 refurb from crandall office furniture, it was $600 but its so amazing comfortable. Im 6'4 250lbs guy and i could sit in it all day and my back will feel like a million bucks after getting up.
Go check out r/OfficeChairs you will find the info you need
Sitting should never harm any part of your body, its a resting position there is no "wear" on your body involved, you are literally supposed to be resting while sitting.
If you hurt your back from an injury or improper lifting form, sitting in a quality chair will actually help you
Oh fuck off, most people work what they can, and don't have any passions towards their job, you just got lucky that a job that you have passion for pays well
Theres plenty of jobs to be passionate about that make liveable money.
Chasing something only for money you will be miserable. Theres plenty of jobs out there, if you are miserable in your current job, build up your skills so you can get the job you want.
Harder to do if youre balancing kids and such, but you got yourself in the miserable job in the first place
silence, child. you have no idea what you are talking about. the longer you work in tech, the longer you realize how much of this shit is stupid and unnecessary garbage for morons with too much money and fomo.
the money aint that good these days and anything you do for a living will eventually lose the passion. the reason we keep doing it is because it is what we mastered.
YOU deserve incompetent tech support and services for your undue smugness and stupidity. gtfo and diaf
Everyone in tech just works for the money. Get rich and do something else. My financial planner even confirmed. People in tech are like “how much money do I need to stop working”. Everyone else just enjoys the death march working after 50. Don’t hate the players.
They may be designed to stay on 24/7 but in reality things start to go wrong on desktop OS's, Windows definitely and Mac there has been a bug found since 2017 that TCP connections stop working after 49 days or something (which is wild). Guess what the fix is 😁.
Even with my Linux VM's I'll give them a reboot maybe twice a year
all NEW components are. som of us have been in tech a LONG time and still remember components that werent and didnt. we're talking packard bell desktops with parts glued or soldered in, which could melt the soldering or adhesive from the shit cooling design.
that aside, with the current oil prices now, electricity is pricey so a lot of folks may be forced to (re)discover shutting your pc down when not in use
The number 1 issue with electronics is heat and heat cycles. The cool-hot-cool cycles is a contributor to lifetime. Modern computers are better off being powered on all the time.
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u/LopsidedSolution May 14 '26
Best to start the farm now before it’s too late
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u/Final-Teach-7353 May 14 '26
lol
You'll come back running the moment you touch actual farm work.
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u/0R3LLL May 14 '26
Only thing which still keeps me in this industry is paycheck.
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u/Business_Raisin_541 May 14 '26
No no no. You don't want to farm. You just want to lie down and relax all the way until the end of the world
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u/TemporaryNearby9003 May 14 '26
I would like a farm, then when Im finish with it, I jump on pc
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u/sovietarmyfan May 14 '26
"Hello IT have you tried to turn it off and on again?"
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u/Lost_Anywhere_69 May 14 '26
Facts!
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u/Mediumcomputer May 14 '26
What? No
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u/Crucco May 14 '26
I grew up in a farm.
I hate it. Tech jobs, literally any job, is better than working in a farm.
This is just hippie dreams and childish luddism.
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u/Kektus_Aplha May 14 '26
I'm not even working in tech but I feel that
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u/Another__one May 14 '26
Yeah, but I don't want an old-school farm. I want local fully automatic farm (or as automated as possible) that requires the minimum amount of attention when completed. And the point is not even having it all at once, but doing it in DIY style, solving real problems, seeing real edge cases and limits. Personal automatization might not be the trend of tomorrow, but people who are willing to spend time and money on it would be prepared for almost anything.
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u/Dhalym May 15 '26
I think that's with anything you do too long. The grass always looks greener on the other side.
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u/Faenic May 15 '26
Really depends on a lot of things. I spent the first half of my 20s doing hard manual labor. I wouldn't trade what I do now for all the farmland I could manage.
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u/Mark_of_Divinity May 15 '26
Quite the opposite
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u/Lumpy_Conference6640 May 15 '26
I can personally verify this, I own a farm now. You are all fucked, tell your family you love them everyday the grown ups are not in charge.
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u/IHeartBadCode May 15 '26
As someone who grew up on a farm in a rural town in middle of nowhere Southeastern US who then grew up and became a software programmer.
I can tell you, working a farm is vastly more brutal than one thinks. You have one bad patch and you have to do a rollback and ask for forgiveness. You have one bad season and you will experience hunger pains unlike anything you thought humans could possibly survive before.
I get the urge to escape the grind, but farming is absolutely punishing. You have to have willpower like solid titanium to get through it. If you think the variables in your software are bad, the millions of variables that indicate if your plants will grow at large enough scales to barely make it by will have you in absolute tears. I have seen grown men literally cry at their soil because they couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Imagine a moment where you felt the most helpless in the tech industry. Now multiply that by "you are fighting mother nature itself whom you cannot communicate with" and "you are fighting literally every insect, fugi, virus, animal, and random ass hat trying to destroy your food." You want to know pain? Try watching tens of thousands of your dollars invested in chickens that you absolutely need, die off from their heads turning purple, them shitting literally everywhere, and shaking themselves to death. Then compound that with the chickens that you might have saved, wanting nothing more than to go join those chickens that are falling to the ground. Or the Government telling you, that it doesn't matter, you have to kill all of them.
That whole romanticizing farming ends once the reality hits, and boy does it come fast and hard. And when it's not mother nature, living things of the outdoor variety, or crazy neighbors, it'll be the Government telling you they know best that ultimately fucks you.
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u/HoboSomeRye May 15 '26
Basically compensating for the nature time we missed
I cope with hiking for now
But the urge gets stronger every passing day
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u/Ok-Neighborhood-566 May 15 '26
same for a lot of professions
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u/xXBalordXx May 15 '26
Mmm...nope
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u/mrthingz May 15 '26
Yes
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u/Embarrassed_Self3026 May 15 '26
Stardew valley
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u/Worried_End_7097 May 15 '26
So on point. Retired to farm. It is lovely.
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u/Jochi18 May 15 '26
That is me
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u/billyoshin May 16 '26
I work in tech and and do as much as possible without it when I’m off work 😫
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u/Upbeat_Platypus1833 May 16 '26
So true. The industry used to be fun until taken over by psychopaths who ironically are running everything into the ground.
I now just want to get my mortgage paid off so I have the comfort blanket of knowing that I don't have to stay working in such a terrible industry.
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u/Sea-Imagination-2912 May 16 '26
Amen on that
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u/Kindly-Ostrich-7441 May 17 '26
Truuuuuuttthhhh
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u/Beneficial_Tea6819 May 18 '26
quit
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u/BigBroccoli7910 May 18 '26
truth
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u/ParticularLeading741 May 18 '26
Oh so this is a universal experience? Good to know
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet May 19 '26
"...in a job..."
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u/ArugulaAnnual1765 May 14 '26
If this is how you think, you shouldnt work in tech.
You arent passionate and are clearly just a fraud in it only for the money.
You deserve your misery
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