Are you a workacaholic or a hardworking individual?

[multi power]

Why bother yourself with what other's have/do? Your hard work shows up in the assets your building up...whilst they'll end up in a dingy council flat on a old age pension eating cat food from a tin.

I'm not so sure, let's say you work hard and build up assets , then in old age need a place in old folks home, you pay full price, yet the dole man next to you pays nothing
Just one example of how this country is too soft on the lazy

 

[GTB]

He probably could have. But at 40 he still had 3 kids to feed and put through school and land prices were not where they are now. And at 40 water right went with the farm, where as now it is worth nearly as much as the land itself and is a separate saleable asset...Interest rates were also at 23% then as opposed to 4% now. He was certainly not one that i would class as either a workaholic or a hard working individual...But they made a good living until he wanted to "retire"....You have to do something with your time..

I assume none of his kids wanted to farm? It's such a shame when someone sells the family silver after possibly several generations have worked hard to pay for it. Seems almost like a betrayal though I do accept that if his kids didn't want it there was little point soldiering on.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I'm not so sure, let's say you work hard and build up assets , then in old age need a place in old folks home, you pay full price, yet the dole man next to you pays nothing
Just one example of how this country is too soft on the lazy

You could also get hit by a car tomorrow...I think the main point is just be content in what you do and what it brings you. They are trying to tighten foreign worker visas here ATM. And are apparently looking at having a tax on some to pay for training for Australian's to fill their jobs...If they cut welfare off and just gave food and rent vouchers and nothing more , i'm sure more of them would try and find a job.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I assume none of his kids wanted to farm? It's such a shame when someone sells the family silver after possibly several generations have worked hard to pay for it. Seems almost like a betrayal though I do accept that if his kids didn't want it there was little point soldiering on.

Twas a well held family farm..No debt...one son who was not interested..plus , not big enough to farm with his father. (a 640 ac cropping block will only do 1 family here).

 

[GTB]

I think I used to be a workaholic but getting older and wiser now, almost to the stage that I can't be arsed some days which is not good. Looking back I should have taken more time off when the kids were young but I was far too busy then.

 

[Drillman]

Did you go? I thought the TM made ridiculous money, and the drill was cheap!

Yes I was there. TM was expensive. Tyres we're splitting as well so needed them changing.

Will be a very expensive tractor by the time it's been polished and put on the dealers forecourt......



Of course if anyone really wants one I have a very tidy 155 in my shed with decent tyres and front links that I might let go for about 30k

 

[Chae1]

Don't get me started, the odd afternoon i have off (once a fortnight) i pick my boy up from school, lots of kids there neither parent works, and they all have newer cars than me etc

Not many of them will own the cars I'm sure. Most will be leased/pcp (hired) till they hand them back. I try not to bother with what other people have got, I always used to say to dad when I was a child. He must be doing well, got new tractor, car etc. Always reminded me that wasn't a sign that someone's business was successful!

 

[Two Tone]

I had an uncle who worked for a grain merchant in Bedfordshire. One of his favourite expressions was "That'll do".
The trouble is that in farming "That'll do" often "Will Never do". Unless you do any job properly, it will come back to bite you.

I have an awkward member of staff here who has the same attitude, thinks he knows it all, is close to retirement and is an argumentative sod. He is good at doing repetitive tasks but getting worse at doing jobs that require a lot of attention to detail and doing properly. He is a typical clock-watcher, doesn't want to do overtime and will swing his leg far too often.

The trouble is that he has turned me into a workaholic to put right his mistakes!

It is often easier for me to just do it rather than cause a row.
It isn't easy to get rid of staff, but I sometimes wonder if this guy will actually get to his retirement working on this farm.

There is no doubt that as you get older you feel less inclined to work quite so many hours. But I ain't that far behind him and his attitude is causing me to work more hours.

The difference is that he is looking forward to retirement, whereas the very though of it fills me with horror!
But there are limits!

 

[Hilly]

Not many of them will own the cars I'm sure. Most will be leased/pcp (hired) till they hand them back. I try not to bother with what other people have got, I always used to say to dad when I was a child. He must be doing well, got new tractor, car etc. Always reminded me that wasn't a sign that someone's business was successful!

Your dad was 100% correct, so folk have been know to go bankrupt very shortly after big spends on luxury items like cars.

 

[Hilly]

Sitting on your mountain of assets at the grand old age of 60 your children long flown the nest having seen what 50 years of slavery has done to you what is your next move ?

Well thats easy, rent it out to some young buck and screw the life out of them with rent.

 

[GTB]

Well thats easy, rent it out to some young buck and screw the life out of them with rent.

That's sort of what he's doing

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Well thats easy, rent it out to some young buck and screw the life out of them with rent.

Rents are falling old timer

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Rents are falling old timer

Where , not round here ?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Where , not round here ?

This area is 100% livestock but you don't see that many livestock. Not like you used to

 

[multi power]

Not many of them will own the cars I'm sure. Most will be leased/pcp (hired) till they hand them back. I try not to bother with what other people have got, I always used to say to dad when I was a child. He must be doing well, got new tractor, car etc. Always reminded me that wasn't a sign that someone's business was successful!

Yes i don't really care, i just carry on with my 17 year old, and long since paid for fourtrack

 

[7610 super q]

Used to be a workaholic.....now the other extreme....lazy barsteward.
A phrase often used on here....work smarter, not harder.
When I think of all that hard graft planting/ weeding/ harvesting vegetables, only for someone further up the chain to double their money for doing f**k all work.......I must have been mad.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I did 20 miles on a push bike this week and walked a lot more. What does that make me

 

[Hilly]

Rents are falling old timer

Ive 17.5 years to give it some thought.

 

[Hilly]

I did 20 miles on a push bike this week and walked a lot more. What does that make me

Tired ? stiff ?

 

[GTB]

I did 20 miles on a push bike this week and walked a lot more. What does that make me

Either a feckin cyclist or a feckin rambler!