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Day on a farm:

Your fake farmer toughness wouldn't last a day working in an artificially-lit, soul sucking office cubicle for someone else's profit!

Ha! Gotcha farmers!

Now if you'll excuse me I need to cry.

only semi related but ive been gifted with soft skin, the kind that old men would handshake and say "you never worked a real day in your life!" i work a blue collar job. some people are just gifted.

Ha ha ha, farming was hard work, like we have no idea, back in the pioneer days. Now? You can't compete without the industrial operations, unless you have a niche.

These pioneers, they were harder than any of these gym freaks, they weren't swollen, they were scrawny, wiry, and stronger. Muscle mass doesn't mean strength necessarily.

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds—and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert.

~ U.S. Representative Steve King (R-IA) in 2013.

I get it's a joke, but... The strapping-est kids I knew growing up were farm kids. Throwing hay bales gets you jacked. I have also driven the air-conditioned tractor around all day though too.

He’s not wrong. Those muscles will atrophy in no time.

They "wouldn't wouldn't last"? So they WOULD last. Double negative cancels itself.

Is that what you're saying?

The modern farmer is now mostly a land manager. Most of the farms have been bought up by big companies, or have the land leased out to companies that primarily use migrant labour to do all the actual work.

My dad's side of the family has a couple thousand acres in North West Ohio that I used to go up in the summer to work on in the 90s. It was hard work, I mostly moved bales of hay to feed livestock. However, once my great uncle got too old to actually run the operation he just started leasing out the land and that side of the family basically became landlords.

Now all my cousins have menial jobs in town and are just waiting around to inherit plots of land they can sell as soon as humanly possible.

I know its a joke, but man I just bailed hay yesterday and I'm really feeling it. My nephew had his first time bailing, fella looks like a bit of a twig, and I could tell he was struggling with it. As is usual, I had to pickup the slack, just as my family did when I was new to bailing as a kid. Bet he can't wait until the next field is ready next week.

Your fake "work from dawn till dusk" work ethic wouldn't last you 5 minutes in an office."

5 minutes at the office:

(this is just a joke too)

I dated a farm girl for a few years. Up hours before sunrise, you're always lugging some large container/bag of something or making a million trips to handle it. None of them mechanize everything. It's way easier than the dumb tractor days but it's still no f'ing joke.

Wouldn't wouldn't

does that work like a double negation?

Is it true that farming isn't physically demanding anymore? I figured it's easier now physically, but you'll still develop strength from the things that can't be done with machinery.

But, to be fair, there is a difference between strength you get in the gym and practical strength. Its a lot of factors and i dont wanna write an essay but it is (kind of) true.

The double "wouldn't" is purely an embarrassment. Such garbage!

OP should hang their head in shame.

Two words: Jeremy Clarkson

I'm in the best shape I've been in about 2 decades, and you know what my hobbies have been since spring of last year?

Amateur farmer, construction worker, and landscaper. And I guess mechanic too, to a lesser extent.

I live in a pretty standard suburban US neighborhood of single family homes, but my little fenced-in back yard is an active construction zone rather than a patch of grass.

My oasis is coming along pretty well. I can't wait to share it with those around me once it's more presentable.

fixed it

I needed more physical fitness working at Tesla glueing cars together than I did on any of the farm jobs I've worked. But to be fair, the only farm work I haven't done is harvesting things like strawberries and some other thing from a shrub (idk what it is), which are normally done by hand around here.

Granted you paid for that John Deere update.