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What's a job most people deem as "easy" but isnt? (sopuli.xyz)
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[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm an industrial-IT-meets-offshore-technician-thing, and my dad was a dairy farmer. He could never have done what I do. But I could never have done what he did either.

Being a farmer is like a handy man on steroids. Upkeep of buildings and machinery, building new where appropriate, caring for livestock, bus8ness finance/book keeping, ground water drainage/management, et al. And on top of that he was a semi-professional footballer on the side.

[โ€“] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm not even close to ready for animals yet, heh. Probably starting in 2026 or 2027 we'll get chickens, but getting a farmsitter for when we want to go on vacation is a concern