The longer you work in tech, the stronger the urge to quit and start farming

Actually I want to build a green house and get into hydroponics.

Though I also want Huey, Dewey, and Louie to help out, so no doubt I'll be doing some coding for them too.

I would be researching and automating the farming. It would make a fat farmer.

Start farming some magic science cubes

I'm just spending my 3rd year in tech (software dev) 😌

I know a fair amount of farmers who say "You sit all day in air conditioning clicking on a computer? Man, I wish I had your job."

While I'm thinking "You get to work outside with animals, drive big equipment, and at the EOD get to say 'I did some real work today'".

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work outside with animals

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You mean tread on poo, have them poo on you, knock you down into the poo, stink of poo.

Farming can be smelly work.

Also, farming tends to be, work all hours of the day, rather than a 9 to 5 job.

And you never know if your crop/flock will fail and you end up penniless, or worse, in debt because you borrowed money to buy livestock/equipment.

At the mercy of the weather, and of course, thieves.

@PaperTrail In all my life, I've only worked in a place with AC for 2 years !

The rest of the time, I'm sweating like a ...

I remember that AC place, 14c.

I also remember I'd be wearing a T shirt whilst everyone else was in jumpers.

@Nanos The successful farmer I worked with bought equipment used and dirt cheap. He was actively trying to introduce tech and trying to help the universities understand they were teaching bullshit. He fixed EVERYTHING he could. Him and his brothers were managing thousands of acres. One of his brothers was a pilot and did all the crop dusting himself. He even did it with a broken foot and a cast on. Balls of steel. Some of the most impressive people I have ever had the pleasure to know.

Weed farm

The fact that I've literally said this

For me it's the opposite. The more I look at the farmers, the more I like my WFH job.

Damn this isn't even a joke

@retoor all farmer have weed crops it's not a secret lmao

@jsframework9000 honestly, I've spend time on a farm and it was great. But yes, it's a very tough job. I wish I could do both programming and farming. I like physical work but programming is what I do...

@ostream i once planted 30.000 plants for a period. I felt more healthy than ever. Hard work is great

If I'd do farming instead of coding, I'll make a vegetable and plant farm with not animals at all. Otherwise milking the cows would guarantee a daily standup 7 days a week.

Seriously, becoming a freelancer did help, depending on the projects / people / customers we have the choice to work with, but at least a greater power to say no or take a day off.

@retoor

FX [ Gets tempted to mention something about seeds.. ]

GUYS WE SHOULD JUST CODE A FARM

@ostream I have to disappoint you, but someone had the same idea before you did

https://gamingdebates.com/2020/02/...

@Nanos > "Farming can be smelly work."

Yes, I would stay away from pigs/hogs. Best friends family raised hogs and it was disgusting work. Very, very profitable (at that time), but not worth the trouble and those things are *very* dangerous. Helping him in the pit one day (my first time, I was about 14) with several full size hogs and he said very sternly "Do not fall down and if one bites you, kick it has hard as you can. Do not let them think you are food. I'm not going to be able to stop a dozen 300lb hogs in a feeding frenzy."

@Nanos > "At the mercy of the weather, and of course, thieves."

The farmers I know never had a problem with thieves. Probably because the rural/remote area and folks knowing its a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mindset.

@PaperTrail Grass is greener on the other sides because most people lack both the imagination and the compassion to think about the other side. Just appreciate the other side while accepting that they have their own hardships.

@Nanos about the poo and long physical work and all.

Most people just can't handle doing the SAME thing for years. That burns you out, anything that breaks the routine, especially if it's in the opposite, sounds favorable because it's different.
That goes for all professions, a burned out IT person would (unless they're a crybaby) enjoy a bit of physical labour for a week - month, and probably return with new energies. That's just how the brain works. Same shit every day just rots the brain.
Same would be said about a farmer if he got to sit in an office for a week - month.

@fraktalisman I think maybe he means a remote control farm where we get to handle real robots doing farm work from the comfort of our chair.

Eventually with AI taking over..

Sounds like Mental Outlaw

@SoldierOfCode yeah I'd love to farm in the morning and code in the afternoon.

Then surf in the early evening.

@ostream I suspect farming is 18 hours a day work, sometimes 24 !

I guess I'll find out when I start growing plants..

@Nanos you can't work during the night, but yes it's a very demanding job if you want to actually live off it

@ostream Lights !

https://youtube.com/watch/...

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High Speed John Deere Corn Planter Lighting Up The Night

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I remember my mum being called out to help with animals late at night with a torch.

@ostream One mushroom farmer here, their entire farm blew away one windy night. :-(