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Farmer stress management - some early study results
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7004131" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>very nice and thanks for the feedback but.....</p><p>If you still have enough spare time and income you can get off the farm and hire people to help you. The crunch occurs, particularly on smaller farms like ours, when, due to falling income and rising expenses, you just can’t afford to hire help, have to do everything yourself and if you take too much time off the jobs pile up out of control and things go rapidly downhill.</p><p>So then we have only two choices really. Pack up or carry on as we are and cope with it best we can. Our business has come very close to hitting the buffers several times over the last few years and I commend my family for pulling through those times. It brings a sense of achievement though it is undoubtedly stressful. In some ways it can give us a buzz like climbing a mountain but sometimes it can feel like we are falling off one.</p><p>But anybody who thinks there is enough money in this job at this level to hire in any appreciable amount of help or take more time off is sadly mistaken. That might work for public servants etc but it isn’t really an option for self employed one or two man bands. And that is when the real inescapable pressure builds at this level of the job.</p><p></p><p>I have also found while working as an employee in industry that there was no sympathy for anybody who felt ovwrloaded. Nobody would have been able to take more time off let alone hire in extra help. It was very much a case of either get on with it or bugger off, we don’t carry passengers. Twice I pulled back from the edge of a breakdown and then experienced depression in my job but nobody gave one so I left eventually.</p><p></p><p>so while I am grateful for the feedback but I find it simplistic and find it does not really understand the fact that many in agriculture are between a rock and a hard place, the only way out being to acknowledge that the stress and hassle just isn’t worth the paltry returns any more. Either that or see it as a challenge that you can rise to, but gird your loins because they will be severely tested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7004131, member: 2119"] very nice and thanks for the feedback but..... If you still have enough spare time and income you can get off the farm and hire people to help you. The crunch occurs, particularly on smaller farms like ours, when, due to falling income and rising expenses, you just can’t afford to hire help, have to do everything yourself and if you take too much time off the jobs pile up out of control and things go rapidly downhill. So then we have only two choices really. Pack up or carry on as we are and cope with it best we can. Our business has come very close to hitting the buffers several times over the last few years and I commend my family for pulling through those times. It brings a sense of achievement though it is undoubtedly stressful. In some ways it can give us a buzz like climbing a mountain but sometimes it can feel like we are falling off one. But anybody who thinks there is enough money in this job at this level to hire in any appreciable amount of help or take more time off is sadly mistaken. That might work for public servants etc but it isn’t really an option for self employed one or two man bands. And that is when the real inescapable pressure builds at this level of the job. I have also found while working as an employee in industry that there was no sympathy for anybody who felt ovwrloaded. Nobody would have been able to take more time off let alone hire in extra help. It was very much a case of either get on with it or bugger off, we don’t carry passengers. Twice I pulled back from the edge of a breakdown and then experienced depression in my job but nobody gave one so I left eventually. so while I am grateful for the feedback but I find it simplistic and find it does not really understand the fact that many in agriculture are between a rock and a hard place, the only way out being to acknowledge that the stress and hassle just isn’t worth the paltry returns any more. Either that or see it as a challenge that you can rise to, but gird your loins because they will be severely tested. [/QUOTE]
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