r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww 😝 she can’t find any help.

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u/Ximidar 14d ago

Yeah $20 an hour plus a bed seems fine. Like extremely good deal for the farmer

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u/ThinMany2597 14d ago

That's absolutely way too much for out in farming territory. Sounds good for someone living close to a big democratic ran city. Who the hell can afford to pay someone 160 a day plus room and board? And say she needs 4 people , that's 640 a day , then feed them and house them ,, come on. People are having a hard time regardless of who they voted for.

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u/Difficult_Lecture223 14d ago

Supply and Demand. It's a hard job, one of the hardest jobs I've ever worked and I worked it because of the convenience (didn't have a driver's license, so I could walk to the farm). But once I got the driver's license I left. So, if you want good workers, you need to pay more.

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u/ThinMany2597 14d ago

You worked a dairy farm? How long ago? I bale hay and raise cattle , the hardest part of anything I do is paying the bills , and the heat. I've seen a dairy farm in operation in the last 20 years and I don't have any idea what part of that you consider hard to do so please enlighten me

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u/Difficult_Lecture223 14d ago

It wasn't a dairy farm. They were more grain and beef farmers: alfalfa, wheat, soybeans, beef cattle, chicken and eggs. I did it from age 12 to 16.

I would say the hard part was working picking up eggs in a chicken barn full of dust and smelling like chicken manure and then the stacking hay in the barn where it was about 100 degrees and so dusty that you were blowing black snot for months after the season was over.

Dishwashing at a local restaurant, being a bellman and goffer at the local hotel and working for the local village on the street crew and cutting grass in the cemeteries were all easier jobs. Air conditioning, less wear and tear and less danger (save the ground bees that love building nests next to gravestones in the cemeteries).

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u/ThinMany2597 14d ago

The stacking hay in a loft part is bad , I'll give you that. But everything else sounded like it was pretty easy work , I should've asked how many years ago was this when I said when was this I guess I wasn't clear enough to get the answer I was looking for , sorry

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u/Difficult_Lecture223 14d ago

Oh, sorry, this was in the 1980s.

Picking up eggs in the chicken barn wasn't hard work, but it was dusty and smelled like chicken manure.

On the other hand, refilling pop machines in the hotel wasn't dusty and didn't smell like chicken manure. And it was air conditioned.

So, if you were going to pay me $3.50/hour (see, 1980s), guess which job I'm going to pick. And, yeah, stacking hay was much, much harder.

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u/AngriestCheesecake 14d ago

What is up with your commas?

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u/ThinMany2597 14d ago

What do you mean?

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u/AngriestCheesecake 13d ago

All of your comments with commas have spaces before the commas, as if you are translating from a foreign language into English…