Anyone here grow up on a farm? I grew up in a very agricultural area, and many of my young friends' families owned farms. You really can't make any kind of co

Anyone here grow up on a farm? I grew up in a very agricultural area, and many of my young friends' families owned farms. You really can't make any kind of comparison between modern farming versus old-timey farming. For example, you can now ride in an air-conditioned combine harvester where you can't chat with your friends, but you're not out in sweltering heat. You can clear vastly many more acres, but is it more or less 'work'? Also, the amount of work would seem to vary tremendously based on season. I think it's more interesting to look at pre-industrialized, non-agrarian life. Like, a shoemaker in a city. According to a historian on a Planet Money podcast, you might go a couple of days without doing any meaningful work. Just sort of hanging around the shop, going to chat with friends, and so on. Then, someone would have a need for boots. So, you measure them up, get to work, and a couple of days later you hand them their custom boots. The guy's claim was that these sorts of jobs involved quite a lot of just waiting around for your next customer/project.