How many months a year do you work?

[farming101]

And yes, I'm with everyone who loves farm life and don't really think of it as a lousy job, even when your shoveling out a flat bottom bin!

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok Ill take this a different way. I looked back on last year and days I worked on the farm. Not sitting on deck at the farm working on farm or shop etc.
Total is 281 days I'm gone for roughly 45 in the winter. Take Sat and Sunday from Nov to Mar. Seeding and harvest only days off are rain days. Sun from march to Nov.
245 is the average city worker and 225 days is the average Gov. employee with every second Friday off.

[westernvicki]

Define work. Is it just the physical, or does it include management, planning, gathering information, sharing information, and from what I know of farmers on vacation they take the technology and are never unavailable.

Farmers have a bad habit of defining work as just the physical.

[SASKFARMER3]

Good point. That is time spent working at yard. On Holidays have IPad and IPhone on me.

[farmaholic]

So Twitty, anyone who had a job that requires absolutely no physical exertion isn't really working? Hilarious..........

[Klause]

Admins. .Ya wanna get rid of tweety?


Pretty obvious he is a troll.

Has yet to contribute anything meaningful and every post is designed to rile members up.

[farmaholic]

Careful Klaus, I may fall into the same category, can be a bit of an antagonist myself. Sometimes don't contribute alot of "value" either...

[SASKFARMER3]

Tweet really your comment is totally idiotic.
Come to our shop ill show you what a grain farmer does all winter.
Man you have no clue. No clue at all.
Ah farming.

[cottonpicken]

Farming is so great,that's why there are so many farmers especially young farmers,o wait

[tweety]

Wow Klause, totally unexpected comment from a guy like you. Bully. Lets delete everyone who doesn't think exactly like you. Work life balance is a tricky subject regardless of your occupation.

Farming101, on call for what? Grain farming?

Aren't forums for discussion and to think about what you're doing, how others do and feel about doing the same things as you?