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Have Taken Up Farming

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Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by throw-the-towel »

SSLy wrote: post #132
dejv wrote: post #28

I also taken up farming in 2013 after 10 years of working on startups (as founder and early engineer, with no success at all). I was about to move back to village I was born at and escaped as fast as I could at the age 15. I started natural winery at the ripe time when it first started to be popular and managed to miss the wave. It was a great first year after many years of tech grind in big tech hubs. I was waking u…

Ahoj! Also consider keeping a few chickens for fresh supply of eggs, and incredible soup base down the road. Avoid cattle, it's tedious.

Be careful with the chickens though. A guy I know just bought some chickens, he was so excited. Literally two days later, foxes broke into his henhouse and ate all his chickens. Invest in a dog if you're in fox country.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by gaws »

dbeley wrote: post #85
ironbound wrote: post #7

So they hit a mid-life crisis, and rather then take small steps they read the bible and move to an island to start farming, I wish them luck.

Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.

> Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties.

As an IC, you're basically geriatric as soon as you hit your 30s.

/s

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by gaws »

spapas82 wrote: post #9

Is this actually a business that can make money? My family owns around 1000 olive oil trees in Greece that produce eatable olives and extra virgin olive oil. The thing is that we always sell the product in intermediates that would pack it up and sell it in a much higher price. I don't know of any small producer that sells the product directly to the consumer. This seems like a very big investment and not really susta…

> Could my knowledge as a software engineer help that family business in any way to be more profitable ?

In Silicon Valley fashion: raise VC money to acquire Dylan's farm and either bring him and his family on as acquihires or pay them out.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by gaws »

tock wrote: post #89

Achieve FIRE. Then you can afford to explore different lifestyles without fear. The software industry will always exist if you want to come back.

> The software industry will always exist if you want to come back.

Not on this timeline. Layoffs abound and jobs are becoming scarce.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by 8note »

throw-the-towel wrote: post #151
SSLy wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ahoj! Also consider keeping a few chickens for fresh supply of eggs, and incredible soup base down the road. Avoid cattle, it's tedious.

Be careful with the chickens though. A guy I know just bought some chickens, he was so excited. Literally two days later, foxes broke into his henhouse and ate all his chickens. Invest in a dog if you're in fox country.

racoons and rats will also kill tbe chickens

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by rawgabbit »

lproven wrote: post #140
JuniperMesos wrote: post #39

> Everything I read made reference to the Bible, something I had never read nor was in any way acquainted with. The references kept appearing and eventually I decided to dive in head first and read it. Putting the King James Version of the Bible on my kindle, over many months I read it cover to cover. > At the time, I wouldn't have called myself an Atheist. Agnostic is not the right word to use either. Not that I bel…

> specifically what about the Bible they found resonant A valid point. I'm not interested, myself, but this is an interesting question. My upbringing was very vaguely Church of England Protestant. I read very fast and read a large chunk of the bible as a child. I decided when I was 11 that religion was a fairy story, just a work of fiction and nothing more, and that I didn't believe in it. I have read much of the Chr…

During the Joseon era of Korea, Christianity was suppressed. Nevertheless, Western books made their to Korea including the Bible. Among the nobility some secretly converted just from reading the Bible. Korea’s first saint was one of grandchildren of those who converted purely from reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kim_Taegon

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by lymbo »

dejv wrote: post #124
gaws wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What system required more than a decade of maintenance? Were you the only person working on it?

It was custom SW created by construction company: things like quotations, warehouse management, controlling, some accounting integrations, time tracking and what not. At the end it was sold to about 60 other companies. It was about 30 years old when the development stopped: it was slowly being eaten by more modern software, but I am sure it is still used somewhere. I was single dev working on it since my day 1.

Nice, this is what I’ve been working towards and reaping the benefits of for the last couple of years. Getting my ski days in the winter and foil surfing time in the summer. I love having low hours, with the few hours I’m spending building things being very intentional and feeling more rewarding.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by _rwo »

If you're (speaking in general) going through such extremes - working 16h/day then farming and 'discovering' god - I would suggest looking into therapy; simply to regain balance; I also had a period in my life in my 30s where I tried to overcompensate, correct the life course so to speak

overall I don't believe neither extreme is healthy; doing A, then doing 2x the opposite of A because you realize A was not really good for you in the long term

but I'm glad it so far worked out for the author

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by jakupovic »

judahmeek wrote: post #108
ggm wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think your leading sentence is a false Dichotomy for many people. Pursuit of happiness doesn't imply being in a state of bliss all the time. Stoics are allowed to be happy too.

> Pursuit of happiness doesn't imply being in a state of bliss all the time. Sure, correcting "pursuit of happiness" to "pursuit of contentment/fulfillment/purpose" is pedantic, but it makes me happy ;p It's also a connotative reminder to ourselves & others to seek rewards with longer time horizons

You're getting good advice and the best you can do is say I know better. Learn to be humble and listen to elders.
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