Change of career.

[Ffermer Bach]

After being tied to land & animals for a lifetime i think it would be time for a little wandering
''la vagabondage est la vrai liberté''

take 6 weeks out and walk the Camino, I am trying to figure out how I can (son has a job now, so can't take 6 weeks to look after the animals), it will take 6 weeks from St John Pied du Port to Saintiago du Compestela .

 

[JP1]

I came across quite a few country carpenters who were also funeral directors, I could think of half a dozen without even having to wrack my brain. I was told, it was because traditionally, the village carpenter used to make the coffins.

Many local builders (like my Uncle's firm) had joiners who made coffins and men to act as pall bearers

 

[JP1]

take 6 weeks out and walk the Camino, I am trying to figure out how I can (son has a job now, so can't take 6 weeks to look after the animals), it will take 6 weeks from St John Pied du Port to Saintiago du Compestela .

Fly there with Ryanair, I even booked a cheap hotel via their portal. You don't have to do the entire length. Galicia is green and quite special

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Galicia is green and quite special

And yet most tourists would never consider seeing it.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Fly there with Ryanair, I even booked a cheap hotel via their portal. You don't have to do the entire length. Galicia is green and quite special

I have walked it from Leon, but I want to spend 6 weeks next time, I think there is something transformative about taking 6 weeks "out" from other normal life, and especially walking the flat bit in the middle, someone said they saw an Iberian Lynx while walking that bit.

 

[Fendt65]

I fancy a crack at opal mining, just dig and get rich
Dig a cave out and live in it
No farm assurance inspectors there

Surely its starburst mining now.

 

[Lincoln75]

Real easy

I`ve done it for my own business , spent a few weeks on the road after I`d got rid of a rep ,so long as you are selling a good product and know your product its not difficult.

 

[br jones]

Astronaut, and when I escape into space I'm not coming back

My dad always said I should of been shot into space .......

 

[TripleSix]

I still don't know what I'd like to do.

I've always wanted to drive a timber forwarder

 

[ollie989898]

I still don't know what I'd like to do.

I've always wanted to drive a timber forwarder

I quite like the look of the timber trucks you see about, no idea where they collect or drop of the stuff but the cranes look fun. I'd like one with a cab on it, please.

 

[JP1]

I`ve done it for my own business , spent a few weeks on the road after I`d got rid of a rep ,so long as you are selling a good product and know your product its not difficult.

No selling isn't difficult if you have the skills. Consultative selling and knowing your product is the key. There's loads of poor reps about, many under unrealistic targets from their bosses and loads of farmers who believe selling is easy. ................

 

[Red Fred]

My dad always said I should of been shot into space .......

My dad just said I should have been shot...

 

[Hesstondriver]

My Career dilemma when i left school was either study an engineering degree, with a view to join the Navy (admiralty interview board) and head off and see the world and do my bit for queen and country, or go to agricultural collage!

Harper it was..... , however i would now class my trade as a Printer and farm on the side.

when i have a bad day in the office, i dream of tractoring or being with stock.

when i have a bad day in the farm, sitting on the bridge of a frigate bobing about in the southern hemisphere is quite appealing !

 

[Red Fred]

Should have joined the RAF after leaving school but hindsight is a wonderful thing. I spent 15 years delivering the milk round town and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would happily have done my round for nothing if I could as the vast majority of people are very pleasant when you get to know them and it gave an insight into the local world that you don't get on the farm. It was just like going to see your friends every day.
I used to drive a truck to Bristol when needed by our neighbour's plastic company and that was enjoyable, but probably not as a proper job. Doing the van run up to London and the industrial estates near Stanstead was also a bit of an eye opener.

 

[Bury the Trash]

"Physician, heal thyself "

'No man is an Island'

 

[toquark]

I still don't know what I'd like to do.

I've always wanted to drive a timber forwarder

Forest machine operators can earn well, the good ones over £50k, but it can be a lonely old number.

 

[Suckndiesel]

Ex Navy mate of mine nearly took a private security job fighting those fudgers, big (danger) money

Is it not just sinking dingys with a 50 cal

 

[Lincoln75]

Ex Navy mate of mine nearly took a private security job fighting those fudgers, big (danger) money

Used to be around £300.00 a day plus expenses but these days a lot of maritime security is done by eastern Europeans for a lot less.

 

[M-J-G]

I started a degree in psychology, but after a year I transferred to ag science because I didn't want to be in an indoors environment.

The way things are looking these days psychology may have been a more never ending job than farming.

My first serious job was in ag research, which was eye opening in many ways, not least because I worked with dozens of people from directors to lab techs.

I have no regrets about returning to practical farming, but I'm glad I went to do other things first, I think only good comes from a young lad getting away to something else before returning home, the ironic part is that you only realise that after you've done it.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I started a degree in psychology, but after a year I transferred to ag science because I didn't want to be in an indoors environment.

The way things are looking these days psychology may have been a more never ending job than farming.

My first serious job was in ag research, which was eye opening in many ways, not least because I worked with dozens of people from directors to lab techs.

I have no regrets about returning to practical farming, but I'm glad I went to do other things first, I think only good comes from a young lad getting away to something else before returning home, the ironic part is that you only realise that after you've done it.

Son has a job as a computer programmer, and he says every time it rains he is pleased he is not on the farm! Daughter is going to be a Nurse, she says lovely to live in a town where you can walk to the Cinema and not have cow muck straight outside the back door!