CX-7Every dev’s intrusive thought: ‘Maybe I should start a farm.’ 🌱
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Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@cx7 Then, they should go talk to ex-IT folks who switched to farming. It can be a good move, but better if the romanticism is stripped out first. For some, it's been good, others okay, and there's many a disaster.
Kerrick Long (code)@alan @cx7 I bought a farm and left my tech job to try and run/grow it. My cow died, my heifer was ill-behaved and went to the sale barn, my bee hives underwent sudden colony collapse, my wife’s flowers never sold enough to pay for the inputs & infrastructure, and my wife and I now both walk with a cane some days.
All of this in less than five years. My wife and I are back to software engineering now.
@kerrick @cx7 Exactly. Farming is a hell of a lot harder than it looks, and there's so many variables that can't be controlled, many of which lead to disaster. Whenever someone seriously talks about moving from IT to farming, I suggest they spend some time working a farm on weekends, etc. before just buying one.