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What are the downsides of quitting white collar job and farming full time?
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:19 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother If you have “enough” savings.
Chickens, cattle, hens, and a huge garden that will provide for a dozen people several times over.
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:20 PM Author: brass vigorous juggernaut dog poop the downside is the farming full time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692840) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:25 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother You get to be outside in the sun and doing physical activity not a screen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692850) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:39 PM Author: brass vigorous juggernaut dog poop true, and that has some joys. but you *have to* be outside all the time, day after day, year after year, decade after decade. |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:47 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother Seems 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692896) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:51 PM Author: Cream contagious potus house Much like when people think they want to use their savings to buy a restaurant should work at one first, you should try working on a farm for a planting & harvesting season before jumping to buying one. You'll quickly appreciate your screens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692905) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 3:21 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother You're an anti-farm nutjob. You're a company man, a "yes" man, keeping up with the Jones'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692973) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:24 PM Author: Cream contagious potus house False, I made my $$$ in law and retired early, living a life of idle luxury. The keyword there is "idle," farm life sucks. Seriously, take a sabbatical from the job you have now and live the farm life for a year. Doubt you even last a season. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693109) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:29 PM Author: mind-boggling hilarious boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693143) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:47 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother Idle hands are the devil's workshop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694019) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:30 AM Author: Cream contagious potus house I know, I'm a poaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694951) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 1:10 PM Author: Lascivious bright rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47695245) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 7:28 PM Author: Olive razzle resort What do you think farming is these days? Moving from computer screen to tractor screen to phone screen to computer screen. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693642) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 2:41 PM Author: alcoholic pearly locale There’s a lot downtime on a farm especially during the winter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692882) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 3:22 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother Cr
I'm going to brew my own alcohol on the farm too.
How about that? |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 3:23 PM Author: umber french azn if you're functionally just retiring then there are no downsides, but you will lose money farming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47692978) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:32 PM Author: Comical sienna goal in life trailer park he may make money, but it will be far less and he'll have to work harder however, that's not such a bad downside to quit lawyering |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:36 PM Author: umber french azn no, he will not make money, not even a little bit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693181) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:38 PM Author: Comical sienna goal in life trailer park "Chickens, cattle, hens, and a huge garden that will provide for a dozen people several times over." yeah, op chime in on your business plan. |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:40 PM Author: umber french azn if you're going to have cattle you will need a tractor, go price one out and amortize out the cost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693194) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 5:12 PM Author: Comical sienna goal in life trailer park haha, when i c&p, i saw cattle and needed more clarification from op. there are ways to make money with cattle, but there are definitely ways to lose money (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693333) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 5:14 PM Author: umber french azn cattle prices are about where they were 15 years ago, most producers are getting squeezed out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693341) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:42 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother yea cattle werent domesticated until tractors were invented 🙄 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694010) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:49 PM Author: umber french azn *Guy about to cut hay with a scythe then haul clumps by hand into a loft* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694022) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 5:43 PM Author: Drab Travel Guidebook Place Of Business where i live tomatoes are about $3. some quick research tells me each tomato has ~200 seeds and each tomato plant produces about 25 tomatoes. assuming you’re able to sell them for $2 each (wholesale), you should have a gross margin of 99.97%. obviously i’m not factoring in op’s time and effort, but with that kind of profitability he should be able to hire some folks to do all the hard labor. the real question is why aren’t we all doing this? |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 3:42 PM Author: Sticky Sapphire Twinkling Uncleanness Besides being a goofball jew with no clue on what you’re doing? Dont see how this could go wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693013) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 3:50 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother thank you, the posters up above were doubting me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693026) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:47 PM Author: beady-eyed cordovan stage hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693244) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 12:43 AM Author: Angry Violet University (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47696820) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:30 PM Author: mind-boggling hilarious boistinker How much saved? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693146) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:32 PM Author: Sooty rambunctious hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693160) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:47 PM Author: mind-boggling hilarious boistinker The normans defeating the anglo saxons at the battle of hastings in 1066 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693242) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:44 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother You can learn everything you need to in books and on youtube
the world wide web democratized knowledge |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:36 AM Author: Sticky Sapphire Twinkling Uncleanness nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694967) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:36 AM Author: Sticky Sapphire Twinkling Uncleanness arent you some gookjew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694969) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:42 PM Author: Stirring clown An old farmer won the lottery. His family asked what he was going to do with the money and he said, aww shucks, I guess I’ll just keep farming until it’s all gone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693213) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 4:47 PM Author: umber french azn the classic line is "How do you make a million dollars farming? Start with two." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693250) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 5:08 PM Author: Stirring clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693317) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 1:11 PM Author: Lascivious bright rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47695250) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:48 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother Haha. What do they say about vinyards? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694021) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 5:15 PM Author: Glittery charcoal state half-breed You can no longer directly pay for lazy niggers and bum drug addicts gto get free food housing and needles which is a huge downside imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693345) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 7:34 PM Author: lilac chapel the subway franchise board will judge you harshly for it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693652) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 7:38 PM Author: exciting henna principal's office starvation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693669) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 7:43 PM Author: azure vibrant gay wizard You could do a law farm. This is what I did. I'm more of a full time law during the day and I do the farming part in the evening, and farming stuff during the day on weekends if I'm not doing law stuff. It's been very therapeutic and I've never been happier. And I'm learning a lot about the law and about the land at the same time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693676) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 8:11 PM Author: Buff theatre Law of the Land, i presume (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693751) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:45 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother I'm going to do this until I ramp up my farm income, then I'll do farming full time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694014) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:44 AM Author: Blue laughsome liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694982) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 7:43 PM Author: spectacular dragon Near certain economic failure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47693677) |
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Date: May 26th, 2024 8:13 PM Author: Buff theatre Farming, especially cattle, is difficult and fraught with peril. I suggest you get a few acres, plant a garden, have egg chickens, and buy meat off your neighbours in the fall. But farming-farming? No.
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Date: May 26th, 2024 9:46 PM Author: mauve free-loading space mother I want pasture poultry broiler chickens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694015) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:43 AM Author: learning disabled regret It's all fun and games until a predator kills all your chickens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694979) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 12:44 AM Author: mauve free-loading space mother joel salatin has made it work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47696822) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 9:15 AM Author: talented philosopher-king neighbors isn't spelled with a fucking u you stupid brit faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47697168) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:45 AM Author: Shivering Queen Of The Night Karate My uncle is a millionaire hick farmer who you would never know has $$$ but that’s because he inherited the family farm. Unless you happen into a farm for free, the startup costs are prohibitive. He’s Pushing 70 and still is out planting and plowing and all kinds of shit. Seems way better than wagecucking though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47694984) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 11:55 AM Author: Aqua Set Farming is ironically a lot like law school re: bimodal income distribution. Lots of random filthy rich farmers and lots just getting by. Not a big middle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47695009) |
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Date: May 27th, 2024 12:51 PM Author: talented philosopher-king Farming is a shitload of work for not a lot of money. It’s the male equivalent of being a teacher (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47695182) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 12:14 AM Author: mauve free-loading space mother Being a high school history teacher sounds amazing. This is my backup actually. You get summers off too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47696777) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 12:22 AM Author: infuriating mad-dog skullcap Being a teacher isn’t necessarily a lot of work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47696786) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 9:17 AM Author: talented philosopher-king you have to stand in front of jerkoff kids and talk about crap and keep them in line for like 5 hours a day. compare that to corporate life where you WFH and poast on XO all day while making like 7x as much as a teacher (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47697170) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 10:09 AM Author: Blue laughsome liquid oxygen in xo's mind all teachers work at the best school district within 100 miles teaching exclusively AP classes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47697275) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 11:38 AM Author: infuriating mad-dog skullcap A lot of teachers just play videos or give their students busywork/projects to work on in in class and they just chill all day. It was very rare for me to have a teacher who gave lectures multiple times a week (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47697511) |
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Date: May 28th, 2024 1:08 AM Author: hairraiser crackhouse You aren’t suited to manual labor, you will get arthritis and back pain in about a month (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5532829&forum_id=2#47696843) |