Are you a bit too busy?

[br jones]

There is one opposite RFM might be quicker to get to them for you.

tim sutton

 

[ColinV6]

How many of these people that are stressed get up and immediately look at there phone, then turn on the tv while they get ready for work, before the know it they have had over 1 hour of negative crap before they even start the day
All this information we get isn’t all good, ignorance is bliss
I watch no news and listen to no radio, and I’m better off for it

I was having a good morning until I read this thread

 

[ColinV6]

i had a lot of fun in my 20’s & 30’s
I also worked very hard & long hours

I also went through a lot of challenges in my 30’s & 40’s with floods, droughts, non payment of creditors, divorce, losing touch with my daughters etc etc
Still working


but, every time I got knocked down, I dusted myself off n got up again. And again. And again.

through my early 40’s ( or perhaps even earlier in hindsight ) I went through at least 4 years of severe, clinical depression, which cost me more money than any drought or flood every did & cost me my marriage & my daughters.

but, I got through it. Learnt how to manage it, rebuilt my life, started again


but now, I’m just tired. I literally don’t have the energy to go through sh!t anymore. It just seems like there isn’t ever any down time or calmness left in this life. We are surrounded by stress & danger & sensationalist headlines constantly. Fires, pandemics, politics, war, costs of living, floods, price rises, plagues . . .

it’s like society is now on a constant plane of fear, that I have never experienced in my younger adult life

It’s not just me & it’s not just agriculture, just about everyone I know is just “tired”

I can totally relate to the “tired” thing. Everyone I know feels the same too. It’s summer and even on a hot evening I find myself just wanting to sit down on the couch. The urge to get out and do something isn’t there. It feels like pure laziness but I’m sure it’s coming from our heads now rather than our bodies being physically tired.

Very hard to describe. I think the pandemic has had a huge mental effect on everyone. Far worse than the virus itsself.

 

[devonbeef]

There is a problem with your mindset, in that in many industries/vocations, people expect you to bust your own gut but won't help themselves and would never show any appreciation for the fact you have bust your gut for them. Thankfully there are still enough people out there who individually do show their thanks to keep the world going around.

when recession hits , many unneeded , i mean things we use but can manage without , will go bust, the ones left will have to buck up and offer better customer services if they want to survive.everything go,s full circle

 

[anzani]

I can totally relate to the “tired” thing. Everyone I know feels the same too. It’s summer and even on a hot evening I find myself just wanting to sit down on the couch. The urge to get out and do something isn’t there. It feels like pure laziness but I’m sure it’s coming from our heads now rather than our bodies being physically tired.

Very hard to describe. I think the pandemic has had a huge mental effect on everyone. Far worse than the virus itsself.

Gene therapy, anyone?

 

[Kevtherev]

I can totally relate to the “tired” thing. Everyone I know feels the same too. It’s summer and even on a hot evening I find myself just wanting to sit down on the couch. The urge to get out and do something isn’t there. It feels like pure laziness but I’m sure it’s coming from our heads now rather than our bodies being physically tired.

Very hard to describe. I think the pandemic has had a huge mental effect on everyone. Far worse than the virus itsself.

Social media and everyone showing what they are up to daily is a big part of that I think.
Never be ashamed of having a rest.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Unless it's on a Wednesday

 

[shumungus]

Some of the comments on here are pretty rich coming from farmers who invented "working from home"--in the house for a cooked breakfast, quick (half hour) for a coffee mid morning, lunch followed by "catching up on paperwork" sat in your favourite armchair with your eyes shut.

Why do people think it's a good thing to work all the hours God sends anyway?

1. Smart people work "clever" not hard. If you're doing 60+ hours a week, you're either too tight or too poor a businessman.

2 The longer people work, the less efficient they become, concentration goes, fatigued people make more errors etc. etc. That's why shorter working hours, 4 day weeks etc don't actually mean a loss of productivity. Not to mention making the job more attractive in the first place-how many "can't get staff" threads are actually "can't get anyone to work 12 days/fortnight or 12 hour days?

In your grand plan of things you are not taking into consideration that cutting hours and being more efficient cannot be applied to a lot of areas of farming. Looking stock takes as long as it takes to do it right. If it takes an hour to get a calf a first suck it takes an hour, animals will dictate when they give birth, If I can plough 1 acre an hour I won't be able to plough 2 acres an hour on Thursday because I took Wednesday off. As for going into the house to eat or having a cooked breakfast it gives the farmer a chance to interact with their family and helps mentally you also have to remember this helps offset the fact that most of us are on call 24/7. Also farming has the 8th lowest divorce rate of any industry which some would put down to not sitting at home bored the majority of the time.

 

[Ben B]

. Also farming has the 8th lowest divorce rate of any industry which some would put down to not sitting at home bored the majority of the the time.

I known plenty of boys who work just so they dont have time to see the wife.

And I don't blame a single one of them

 

[Henarar]

 

[ollie989898]

when recession hits , many unneeded , i mean things we use but can manage without , will go bust, the ones left will have to buck up and offer better customer services if they want to survive.everything go,s full circle

I need to see it to believe it.