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A farmer owns a farm business. A farmhand works for a farmer. While it is not completely unheard of for farmers to also be farmhands, there is difficulty in th
by randomdata 3y ago
A farmer owns a farm business. A farmhand works for a farmer.
While it is not completely unheard of for farmers to also be farmhands, there is difficulty in that the farms will generally share the same busy seasons. Meaning that your employer will want you on the job most especially during the times you will want a vacation to work on your own farm.
For me, it is also questionable how much I want to help out the competition. While farmers are generally good spirited and try to work together for a greater good, there is still only so much resources to go around, and I want to see my business thrive. I'd jump in and help in a pinch, but to make it a career...
But it is also true that tech will pay me more than other farmers will. That certainly seals the deal.
- carlosjobim 3y agoThat's what I'm getting at a little bit. Everybody wants to be the business owner and then demand that cheap labour should materialize, ready to work for them. Ideally working just during the season when they're needed and then get lost. They need a constant stream of desperate people to abuse in order for that business model to work out - and I guess that's why farming historically has been the main industry for slavery. Or a family business where the profits of cheap labour one day ends up in the hands of the labourer when he inherits the farm.
- randomdata 3y ago> Everybody wants to be the business owner and then demand that cheap labour should materialize, ready to work for them. I don't know if the labour is cheap, exactly. Tech is kind of an outlier among few other careers in the level of pay. I expect being a farmhand would still be my second best choice in terms of pay opportunity. Of course, being the owner is more fun. The thrill of the gamble is like no other.