Nobodys Happy

[farmaholic]

Sumdumguy. I thought you ssid hoi didn't like weed.

[Horse]

Actuaaly life style is like breasts without nipples.... POINTLESS!!

[sumdumguy]

Maybe some weeds aren't so bad.

[sawfly]

Furrow my sentiments exactly
since mid April maybe 2 days off.
moving grain that should have moved in winter dose not help.
just wonder about the wisdom of it,
what for?
Esp. when my ex hired help,
teens then
went to the oil industry, and in their 30s now have all the goodies.
and then some. and will be retired before their my age.
all with 40 hr or less weeks

love the work compared to a million other jobs , being outside ,freedom . some variety .accomplishment.
but the marathon wears thin

[Hopperbin]

This economy should make for some big farm auction sales.

[hedgehog]

half summer fallow could fix a lot of problems.

[Hopalong]

This forum has more than its share of unhappy people.
Would not like to be counted among them.
What a shame to spend your life doing something that you do not love.

[mbdog]

Happy comes from achievement, accomplishment, self worth/pride, I agree with hobby...Rarely does one buy happiness.
The problem of a first world. Too much-too easy-for too many. A big part of society isn't happy because they didn't earn it, and those that do earn it, are targets/labelled greedy for political/social opportunism. For a long time in ag, the same political opportunism laballed producers as "needy" of subsidy...just like a welfare case...when in reality the ag industry is so vitally important. So destructive was this.
The ag lifestyle arguement is getting a little long in the tooth when you start comparing lifestyles.
Is there opportunity out there? Sure there is. But why take the risk? To accomplish what?...when politics gets in the way or can simply take it away. I am a risk taker but the weight of the current political/social environment has me holing up. And a simple upturn in the market...making me more profitable...just doesn't cut it anymore.
Politics is the root of the happy/unhappy question.
Think ag society isn't so much unhappy as dissillusioned with political reality. As for the rest of society... too many worried/complaining about what someone else has/got for "free"....a consequence of liberal-left strategy.

[mbdog]

I will also add...while i agree with Tom from another thread that the current "conservative" government has moved towards the center, and one shouldn't get hung up on labels, but the current Federal Conservatives have, IMO, been net positive when it comes to changing economic/confidence...and thus societal "happiness".

[charliep]

Perhaps happiness is an attitude and not a situation. It is a privilege but not a right. It is an opportunity granted an individual regardless of income.