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Farming is only fun if you already have enough money that you don't actually have to farm if you didn't want to.
Otherwise it's hard work for low pay that is very hard to buy yourself into if you weren't born with some land.
This Lemming rural-s.
[I]t's hard work for low pay that is very hard to buy yourself into if you weren't born with some land.
It's certainly hard work and low pay (compared to software engineering) in many cases, but it is rewarding.
As for the land, that really depends on the scale and the country.
At the end of the day, farmland is going to earn a similar basic return to whatever other capital asset, and while farming labour isn't unskilled the amount of people raised in it means it earns like it is.
Nobody who says this is picturing manhandling half-dead chickens, and it's usually someone white who isn't going to move to the mountains of Ethiopia to farm subsistence crops and cocoa. That pretty much leaves something land-intensive.
I did talk to someone here who made it work with ranching, but ranching is definitely not a good earner right now, and a lot of people are leaving the industry. Modern crop farming seems a lot like a desk job on wheels. Mainly, I think people just want space and fresh air, and have no idea what rural life is actually like.
juniors are 45 these days
They are? When did that happen? For the last 15 years it's been 23 year old 'senior devs'
Some people have studied for 10 years when reaching 23.
Neofetch dev?
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Neofetch Dev. God bless 'm
He turned into a religious nut hawking booze online
Senior software engineer and farmer here. I approve.
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Best of luck with it fam. Good to know there's a healthy exit somewhere out there.