Disadvantages of working on a family farm:
The pay sucks.
Likewise, the hours. Can we say "seventy hour workweek?" I thought we could.
Staggering home after a long day's work and having your beloved take one look at you and say "Shower. Now. You smell like shit." And knowing he's dead on.
Living two hours from anything resembling civilization.
Waitaminute, why do my parents get a European vacation and I don't? And why do I have to do all their work?
Having no time, ever, for stuff like writing. Including blog posts.
Advantages of working on a family farm:
Novelty value.
All the cheese and meat you care to cart home and all the milk you can drink (that last may be more valuable to me than most. You know the way some people are about beer? This is how I am about milk. Sometimes I even quaff, though Dan makes me mop the floor afterwards.) Plus, sometimes there are veggies from the garden or eggs from the only non-family employee, who also brings nummy treats to work on Mondays.
Wildlife exposure. Dan got bad karma points from the Snake Gods for accidentally soaking one with the hose today.
Working in the same place as your beloved is not considered a conflict of interest, but ordinary healthy preferential hiring.
If you want a couple of days off work for, oh, say, World Fantasy, you say, "I need a couple of days off in November," and lo, you have days off. Who's counting?
You can cuss at work all you want. There's no way you'll ever top Dad anyway.
Ditto pinching your beloved's butt. Dad's ahead of you there too.
"I was late for work because there were cows in the road" is, in fact, a valid excuse.
More regular posting soon, I hope. For now be content knowing we are alive and settled in, for certain values of "settled in" which are equivalent to "getting our butts worked off".
Advantages of working on a family farm:
More regular posting soon, I hope. For now be content knowing we are alive and settled in, for certain values of "settled in" which are equivalent to "getting our butts worked off".
posted at 09:42 PM on 09/17/05
by kat -
Category: General
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