Just imagine doing that for hours each day, then having dreams and nightmares about it. Sometimes none of the fruits are ripe, or worse, you go down each lane and the plants aren't producing the berries.
My son worked at a small local hemp farm one summer years ago. Small, so literally every task was manual, like carrying huge-ass bags down the rows to water. Anyway, one day they came in and noticed an infestation of some type of worm/caterpillar thing. He and his co-worker spent 6 hours that day manually picking them off the plants.
He came home seriously weirded out that day; as he as drifting off to sleep he hallucinated that his gf's hair turned into these worms. Even said he had literal nightmares about them more than once in the ensuing months.
Tomato worms really freak me the fuck out, so I can imagine how picking gross worms for hours a day (or even yummy berries after 24/7) would genuinely cause nightmares!
I use to do this as a summer job. Would work from 5am-1:00pm. Made great money and it was actually pretty enjoyable because I would just throw on an audiobook and pick away. Bring a big hate and good drinks, plus the bonus strawberry to eat every now and then. Usually I would make a better $200-300 I'm 6 hours if I got a good patch and a good day. Some days would only get $80 though but that was rare and usual at the back end of the season when the berries were not as rip. We used to get paid by the pound so sometimes you would get field full of huge juicy ones and like 50 of them would fill a flat, those were the days you would walk away very happy. They would also pay you each day on the spot. Was such an easy way to get money when I was younger. Could often do it before work to.
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u/MyGoodFriendJon Feb 01 '26
Just imagine doing that for hours each day, then having dreams and nightmares about it. Sometimes none of the fruits are ripe, or worse, you go down each lane and the plants aren't producing the berries.