Posted by wisbaker on August 14, 2012 at 09:13:41 from (207.118.144.43):
In Reply to: farm work posted by nick girgen on August 14, 2012 at 03:09:37:
The return on investment on Ag degrees isn't that great,you still need experience to go with it. If you get a degree still count on working for low wages and long hours to get that experience. A lot of guys my age were able to get into farming only with the support of their wife and her good off-farm job to keep them going as a family until the farm enterprise started making some head way. One of the graduates 3 or 4 years ahead of me at Michigan State married a CPA, he described his farming efforts has his wife's tax deduction. I have a degree in Animal/Dairy Science from Michigan State University the rude economic fact is upon graduation I was worth more as a mechanic than herd help for a dairy. I downshifted and took a Dairy job working 60-80 hours a week for what I used to earn in 40. After about a year of this I noticed that any of my peers either were married before they started working for a dairy OR married someone associated with a herd they were working at. The epitome of this occurred when I was interviewing for a job in Southern Michigan, the farmer's last name happened to be the same as mine (Baker) but I knew if they were related it had to be more than 4 or 5 generations apart, their daughter was about my age and during the interview she happened to be milking, and a statement something like "that was our daughter do you like her?" was made, my flight instinct kicked in and I didn't take the job, just felt it might be a lot of stress on a relationship for there to be expectations that we should start seeing each other or even if we did find out we liked each other to have a girlfriend's dad also be my boss. I went back to mechanic work until I was able to get an appointment to the Air Force Officer Training School and earn a commission, I become an Aircraft & Munitions Maintenance officer. Take this all with a grain of salt maybe the problem is I should of been in an Ag engineering program and geared my vocation more towards work in the implement or ag construction industries.
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