- Location
- Somerset
My attitude once landed me in a police cell for the night ,and up before the beak,the rest of the time i"ve managed to talk my way out of it.Grandfather packed up dairying in Scotland and moved down to a
derelict farm in Lincs when he was 55 so there's time yet I reckon, but he did stay in farming albeit changed from dairy to arable.
As you are making a good job of your farm you won't feel any motivation or need to do something else and why should you? However, if your books were in the red every year and everything was a mess and there was no hope of retrieving the situation then you might think differently. In some ways with less manual work and more IT work now available generally, a late change in career is perhaps easier than it was years ago when physical fitness was more of prerequisite.
Most farmers have a skill set and attitude that would be highly valued generally in the workforce.