Did you work on the family farm?

[Immortalfire]

We’ve seen it in movies and TV, heard it in songs, the notion of the family farm. Quite often the idea is youngsters go there and work during the summer season.

I never did, because there is no family farm among my people.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

No farms in my family, but a nursing friend of my mum was married to a farmer, and when I was little we'd go down and visit.

 

[MissMarvelous]

Nope, I always had the fantasy that such thing would be "fun". I know it's hard work, real hard work but it's like you (@Immortalfire ) say:

We’ve seen it in movies and TV, heard it in songs

And somehow, that life doesn't seem THAT bad.

I highly recommend this show on Netflix:



It's amazing what you can do -if you have the moola- and appreciate that kind of life.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I did not

 

[C. Lee]

I worked on my grandfather's farm at various times.

 

[Lily Adler]

My father did when he was a kid. His family owned a small farm with crops, chickens, and a cow. He told me my grandmother taught him how to kill chickens by breaking its neck.

 

[Pennywise]

My stepfather did, I did not.

 

[InCali]

We lived in the hills outside Silverton, Oregon for a couple of years. We had cattle and chickens. It basically sucks. I was 12, from LA, and they had me getting up in the morning to feed the cattle and chickens and get eggs. I hated the chickens. When I would go in, they would get agitated and jump and fly around. In the summer, I had to pick strawberries and string beans. Forced child labor......one year they delayed opening school because of a long growing season so you know where their priorities are. No wonder most of the kids are a bunch of narrow minded morons.

It's super glamorous.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

We’ve seen it in movies and TV, heard it in songs, the notion of the family farm. Quite often the idea is youngsters go there and work during the summer season.

I never did, because there is no family farm among my people.

Immortalfire's people being the inhabitants of Cybertron.

Nope, I always had the fantasy that such thing would be "fun". I know it's hard work, real hard work but it's like you (@Immortalfire ) say:



And somehow, that life doesn't seem THAT bad.

I highly recommend this show on Netflix:




It's amazing what you can do -if you have the moola- and appreciate that kind of life.

Here's an interesting documentary on the differences between urband and rural living. Quite informative:

I worked on my grandfather's farm at various times.

My father did when he was a kid. His family owned a small farm with crops, chickens, and a cow. He told me my grandmother taught him how to kill chickens by breaking its neck.

We lived in the hills outside Silverton, Oregon for a couple of years. We had cattle and chickens. It basically sucks. I was 12, from LA, and they had me getting up in the morning to feed the cattle and chickens and get eggs. I hated the chickens. When I would go in, they would get agitated and jump and fly around. In the summer, I had to pick strawberries and string beans. Forced child labor......one year they delayed opening school because of a long growing season so you know where their priorities are. No wonder most of the kids are a bunch of narrow minded morons.

It's super glamorous.

Born and raised in Brooklyn until my teen years when we moved to rural Pennsylvania and 30 or so odd years ago it was still quite rural with folk I went to high school with still farming and hunting both for profit and often pure sustenance but I never got close to farm life per se...

Now my dad was born a dirt farmer in Puerto Rico. He recounted a life with a lot of work and a ways of doing things long lost to modern people, even probably a lot of modern farmers today. To give an idea of how rural my dad's life was before he and his family moved to the states in the 1950's, he was registered, given a birth certificate etc., like five to six years after he was born and when my grandfather went "into town" to do so he literally had to borrow his own mother's only traveling horse.

This actually wasn't that long ago people if you think about it.

 

[tzarinna]

No, I wish. I think I recall visiting family that may of had farm land in Georgia. I remember being pretty impressed with the house. I was a pretty flaky teen, and my family tree is pretty massive to try to keep up with.

 

[InCali]

No, I wish. I think I recall visiting family that may of had farm land in Georgia. I remember being pretty impressed with the house. I was a pretty flaky teen, and my family tree is pretty massive to try to keep up with.

You wouldn't if you actually had to do it. LOL. Electricians get paid more and it's better work.

 

[Hobgoblin]

My parents and their siblings grew up on farms but I was raised in the suburbs.

 

[tzarinna]

You wouldn't if you actually had to do it. LOL. Electricians get paid more and it's better work.

I haven't worked as an electrician in over 10 years. I was in the best shape of my life when I was working construction.

 

[InCali]

I haven't worked as an electrician in over 10 years. I was in the best shape of my life when I was working construction.

Well, I haven't gotten up at 4AM, fed the stupid cows and stupider chickens, gotten on a bus to go pick strawberries or green beans in a hot sun, and then make sure they were fed in the evening in a lot longer than that and was in very good shape too.

I'll take being an electrician.