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Is it such a bad thing to want to be a farm hand?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1119365" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>I tend to agree most with the people who say to play it safe and get the education and work into cattle as a side job because there is a lot more to being a profitable cattle operation than owning a horse and a hat.</p><p></p><p>That said, I still believe hard work can pay off and good, honest, hard-working people are sometimes rewarded in ways that defy common logic. </p><p></p><p>Several years ago another poster asked this same type question and said they would move anywhere just to fulfill their dream of working on a cattle ranch. At the time I knew of someone needing help and since the poster was not far from me we struck up some conversations via pm's. Unfortunately the arrangement didn't seem to suit the person and their willingness seemed to fade when they learned our area views horses as more of a recreational item rather than a tool since we have such a heavy carrying capacity. Anyhow, his ideas and his willingness to do anything to fulfill his dream had some severe constraints when the reality of what the job actually entailed. This is unfortunate because when the owner died he left everything to the fella that took the job and helped him his last years on the farm. Lock stock and barrel. </p><p></p><p>In the last four years I have seen this happen twice. I find it interesting that some people value their cattle and their land more than they do their family and apparently a few would rather see their cattle taken good care of in the future than to be hauled off to the stockyard before the first shovel hits their coffin. I guess in a way, when someone does something like this it is their way of extending their lives into the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1119365, member: 4362"] I tend to agree most with the people who say to play it safe and get the education and work into cattle as a side job because there is a lot more to being a profitable cattle operation than owning a horse and a hat. That said, I still believe hard work can pay off and good, honest, hard-working people are sometimes rewarded in ways that defy common logic. Several years ago another poster asked this same type question and said they would move anywhere just to fulfill their dream of working on a cattle ranch. At the time I knew of someone needing help and since the poster was not far from me we struck up some conversations via pm's. Unfortunately the arrangement didn't seem to suit the person and their willingness seemed to fade when they learned our area views horses as more of a recreational item rather than a tool since we have such a heavy carrying capacity. Anyhow, his ideas and his willingness to do anything to fulfill his dream had some severe constraints when the reality of what the job actually entailed. This is unfortunate because when the owner died he left everything to the fella that took the job and helped him his last years on the farm. Lock stock and barrel. In the last four years I have seen this happen twice. I find it interesting that some people value their cattle and their land more than they do their family and apparently a few would rather see their cattle taken good care of in the future than to be hauled off to the stockyard before the first shovel hits their coffin. I guess in a way, when someone does something like this it is their way of extending their lives into the future. [/QUOTE]
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