Why is farming the best profession in the world?

[DRC]

We are all much more dependent on one another these days. Every profession and trade is valued. It's a good thing. Specialist trades have improved efficiency and freed us from the drudgery of life 200 years ago where we were fashioning cart wheels out of wood in this village.

My only slight concern with this thread is that it can make some of us feel somehow inadequate or slightly a failure because we think to ourselves, well I'm struggling or hacked off with this farming job yet it's supposed to be the "best profession in the world".

Well it isn't the best profession in the world as far as I'm concerned. It's just another profession with all the same highs and lows as any other profession.

I used to work as a software engineer. If it was going well I didn't really notice that I was sitting in an office any more than I notice that I'm sitting in a hot dusty tractor cab because I would be engrossed in a project. It gave the same kind of buzz as growing a crop. Testing the software and signing it off was like a sort of harvest.

I didn't used to think like this. I used to think that farming and country life was the bees knees. But I don't any more. I'll be happy to retire to a flat in the city with a collection of books that I haven't read and my piano, all within easy walking distance of civilisation.

Life is what you make it, whatever you do, wherever you are.

I agree with you. It has its good days and bad days and pros and cons like any job. You only have to read some of the desperate threads or posts on here sometimes, to realise it's not a chocolate box lifestyle for most people.
I'm genuinely happy for people that get all the pleasure and sense of achievement from farming, but i suspect for many it's a poisoned chalice. Personally, there's been many times when ive wished I'd done something else and many times when financially it's been tough. Not saying that Los of people have it better in their jobs, but let's get a dose of reality and cut out the best job in the world retoric.
PS, i think we're going to be in for a real rough ride in the next few years, when it really will need to be a profession, not a lifestyle.

 

[Christoph1945]

Aaaaah, the grass is always greener on the other side; isn't it?

 

[abitdaft]

Some days are fab, some are just sh!t and some are mixed. Gathering the hill in summer, glorious weather sounds great, but you forget the bloody Cleggs are going to chew you to bits. The first born lambs are lovely until you are tied to feeding pets for two months. Cracking bull calves born, then their mother tries to kill you at tagging etc. Rose tinted specs are great for getting you started on the job, but they often get flung to hell halfway through the day. However, when it all comes together in some magical way, I don't think it can be beaten.

 

[DrWazzock]

Not greener, just a different variety.

 

[DrWazzock]

There are undoubtedly some magic moments.

 

[Selectamatic]

You want to pee? Whip the little chappy out, have a pee.

Cant do that in an office!

 

[Christoph1945]

You could, but you wouldn't last long!

 

[Razorready]

A good friend once said to me when he drives his combine harvester he is feeding the world now technically speaking he doesn't but he certinally helps lol

 

[Lazy Eric]

It used to be the greatest profession in the world...... but sadly I don’t feel it anymore. The media is telling the general public to despise us livestock/ dairy farmers, now we are coming out of the EU it’s up to the Uk government to support and police our agriculture and we certainly are not a priority in their eyes.
Can’t say I feel good about my industry.
Why let hard facts get in the way of a good story for our left wing cock Womble media.

 

[Hilly]

The best bit it’s not work it’s just filling the day with enjoyable things to do.

 

[Gulli]

There is absolutely nothing in any of the other jobs I've done that compares to a newborn lamb or kid or calf spluttering into life, especially if it's been a tough birth.

Unbeatable