The Real Reason We're All Exhausted
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The reason China and the US are on top is because of all our hard work. I remember reading awhile back that in Japan people were dying on buses/trains of exhaustion. Some while standing up.
There is always a price to pay to be number one.
Sadly, here is my take on things. In my early work years, you went to work and came home. Period. You did not bring your work home with you nor were you available 24/7 for work. Today, with cell phones. emails/text people are working/available 24/7
Salary positions changed everything. This type of payment is the cause of all of this work abuse, IMO. All my hourly paid jobs you were able to disconnect from work. When I went to Salary, thinking this would be great, I ended up working 10-20 hours more a week. When I did the math I was making less per hour than when I worked hourly. It is a trap.
I remember when Pagers came out. This was the start of disturbing our at home time, at least for me. It first started out where we did weekend shifts of who was going to have the pager that weekend. If you were called and went to work you got paid, in my case 4 hours minimum, even if the job was only a few hours. This progressed to having to have a pager 24/7 and being available all the time.
I watched about half of the video, I stopped at his Primal 60 Challenge so don't know if he mentions or understands one of the Real reasons we are exhausted.
DAY OF REST!!! If you believe this or not, your Creator design you/us to rest on the 7th day of a week. You pick the day, does not matter. Last time I was in Europe, a few years back, they still have Sundays off, well in the smaller towns/villages. I know this is changing, their cities for sure, but many stores are closed and restaurants have limited hours. Where we live now is the same, our small town pretty much shuts down on Sunday. The few restaurants that are open close by 3pm. No dinner. Some even Monday too. So basically Tuesday to Saturday. Just had one of our favorite eating places close on weekends, they use to be open 24/7 which Sunday only breakfast/lunch.
Moving from a big city it was an adjustment for us since where we moved from pretty much Everything was open 7 days a week. Walmart use to be open 24/7.
What is my point to all of this rambling...Rest means Rest. Unplugging. From the World, everything...RESTING, our minds, our bodies. Rest is very important to our health. But TRUE Resting, not thinking about work/to-do-list, etc. Unplugging while we sleep too. Why do you think there is a big rise of Dementia. We are overworking our brains, our bodies. You don't have to be a doctor to understand this. We see funeral notices taped up at the local Post Office, Restaurants, Stores here. Looking at ages, many are in their late 80s, their 90s and surprisingly quite a few 100+ years old. Ranchers/Farmers. Now this may sound like a contradiction to what I am posting since with livestock you pretty much work 7 days a week but it is more like 6 days, with Sunday set aside as a day of rest/worship/free time/fishing, etc. Pretty much, once morning chores are done, the day is yours.
Do the Math, if you take 52 weeks a year with the 52 days of Rest we are Suppose to do/have yearly, add it up over the years. We have denied/deprived our minds/bodies the Rest we were designed to have. This is the Real Reason we are all Exhausted...
There is always a price to pay to be number one.
Sadly, here is my take on things. In my early work years, you went to work and came home. Period. You did not bring your work home with you nor were you available 24/7 for work. Today, with cell phones. emails/text people are working/available 24/7
Salary positions changed everything. This type of payment is the cause of all of this work abuse, IMO. All my hourly paid jobs you were able to disconnect from work. When I went to Salary, thinking this would be great, I ended up working 10-20 hours more a week. When I did the math I was making less per hour than when I worked hourly. It is a trap.
I remember when Pagers came out. This was the start of disturbing our at home time, at least for me. It first started out where we did weekend shifts of who was going to have the pager that weekend. If you were called and went to work you got paid, in my case 4 hours minimum, even if the job was only a few hours. This progressed to having to have a pager 24/7 and being available all the time.
I watched about half of the video, I stopped at his Primal 60 Challenge so don't know if he mentions or understands one of the Real reasons we are exhausted.
DAY OF REST!!! If you believe this or not, your Creator design you/us to rest on the 7th day of a week. You pick the day, does not matter. Last time I was in Europe, a few years back, they still have Sundays off, well in the smaller towns/villages. I know this is changing, their cities for sure, but many stores are closed and restaurants have limited hours. Where we live now is the same, our small town pretty much shuts down on Sunday. The few restaurants that are open close by 3pm. No dinner. Some even Monday too. So basically Tuesday to Saturday. Just had one of our favorite eating places close on weekends, they use to be open 24/7 which Sunday only breakfast/lunch.
Moving from a big city it was an adjustment for us since where we moved from pretty much Everything was open 7 days a week. Walmart use to be open 24/7.
What is my point to all of this rambling...Rest means Rest. Unplugging. From the World, everything...RESTING, our minds, our bodies. Rest is very important to our health. But TRUE Resting, not thinking about work/to-do-list, etc. Unplugging while we sleep too. Why do you think there is a big rise of Dementia. We are overworking our brains, our bodies. You don't have to be a doctor to understand this. We see funeral notices taped up at the local Post Office, Restaurants, Stores here. Looking at ages, many are in their late 80s, their 90s and surprisingly quite a few 100+ years old. Ranchers/Farmers. Now this may sound like a contradiction to what I am posting since with livestock you pretty much work 7 days a week but it is more like 6 days, with Sunday set aside as a day of rest/worship/free time/fishing, etc. Pretty much, once morning chores are done, the day is yours.
Do the Math, if you take 52 weeks a year with the 52 days of Rest we are Suppose to do/have yearly, add it up over the years. We have denied/deprived our minds/bodies the Rest we were designed to have. This is the Real Reason we are all Exhausted...
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Its time for me to buy some farmland.
What are your thoughts on self-employment? Work is work, it seems.
Ranching/Farming is hard work. Running your own business, self-employed, is hard work too, long hours usually. I did this a good part of my life. Would work all day then come home to accounting/invoicing/etc. Add Sales in there too, between jobs. Being your own boss is great, IMO But it has it's ups and downs. Not like having a steady paycheck every week working for a company. You have to budget for slow times.
We have been watching several Ranching/Farming TV series, Dutton Ranch, (Yellowstone), even watched The Ranch, which was funny, even Suddenly Amish, which was kinda stupid, haha. Wife is now watching McLeod's Daughters. We have talked to several Ranchers and a few Farmers since we moved here 3 years ago. There is no such thing as Retirement out here. We are city folk that moved out here to retire, not work. Folks are nice here but we don't fit in. If you have livestock, you work till you die or sell the stock off. Vacations? It is a foreign word out here. Only the real rich go on vacations out here. It's a hard life. But IMO, it is a very healthy and rewarding life.
Many city folk, hahaha, I like saying that even though we are them too. They buy out here, some move out here and work from home. It is extremely peaceful out here. We have met many from the city who moved out here and retired, like we did. They buy 5, 10, 20 acres average, they build a modern home with the money they sold their city house with. Some have a few animals, horses, a few cows, chickens, etc., but many don't. We don't, but we bought forest land.
If your plan is to work the land, I would not advise it unless you have been doing it most all your life. Again, it is very hard work. No way could I do it, probably not even in my prime and I was in construction alot of my life too.
As far as buying an existing running ranch or farm and taking it over, I have no advise there. From watching those TV series, haha, hard to get/keep good help. Oh, which brings up a good point. Most everyone here fixes their own things. Ranchers/Farmers have many trades, Electrician/Mechanic/Plumber/Carpenter, etc. Mainly in repairs though. They do hire out for big jobs but what we found it is no way like the city where you have dozens of companies to chose from. Also, to get someone out on a dime here is impossible. We were without water for a few days before a Plumber could get to us for a pipe break. Last few breaks I repaired them myself.
We have had 4 since we moved here, our water line from the meter is around 1000 feet, lol...no joke. No one is in a rush out here...There are many things different out here. If Internet is important, make sure you have access to it, Starlink is popular out here. We have DSL, yes old Bell Internet
25Mbps Baby!!! LOL Water, most have wells out here. We got blessed with city water were we live. No natural gas nor sewer here. you need propane and a septic system.Lastly, I have been watching a few videos lately on does/don'ts of buying land. Many things you need to think of depending on where you buy and what you plan to do with the land. AG exemptions are great. Our son-in-law bought 10 acres about 5 years ago and the AG exemption carried over, I think he said he paid $40 property taxed. Not sure where he is at today, he now owns 35 acres with a house and barn...he comes out to their second home many weekends and work from home, the 1600 acre ranch sold lots and the AG carried over. They brought in fiber Internet and city water when they sold the land, it brought in alot of city folk buying, lots went quick, I think they were all gone in a year or less.
Bottom Line, We LOVE IT HERE!!! We will no way move back to the city unless forced
but we are retired, not working the land. Well picking up sticks/branches, lol...
My take: if you don't want first world problems, then don't work. Its that simple.
Yes, its a smart-ass answer. Ha, ha. OOO-RAH!
Yes, its a smart-ass answer. Ha, ha. OOO-RAH!
I like my house. My kids are slowly exiting so I can spend my time as I want. So, instead of a ranch, I bought a motorcycle. I hope to spend an ever increasing amount of time on it.Ranching/Farming is hard work. Running your own business, self-employed, is hard work too, long hours usually. I did this a good part of my life. Would work all day then come home to accounting/invoicing/etc. Add Sales in there too, between jobs. Being your own boss is great, IMO But it has it's ups and downs. Not like having a steady paycheck every week working for a company. You have to budget for slow times.
We have been watching several Ranching/Farming TV series, Dutton Ranch, (Yellowstone), even watched The Ranch, which was funny, even Suddenly Amish, which was kinda stupid, haha. Wife is now watching McLeod's Daughters. We have talked to several Ranchers and a few Farmers since we moved here 3 years ago. There is no such thing as Retirement out here. We are city folk that moved out here to retire, not work. Folks are nice here but we don't fit in. If you have livestock, you work till you die or sell the stock off. Vacations? It is a foreign word out here. Only the real rich go on vacations out here. It's a hard life. But IMO, it is a very healthy and rewarding life.
Many city folk, hahaha, I like saying that even though we are them too. They buy out here, some move out here and work from home. It is extremely peaceful out here. We have met many from the city who moved out here and retired, like we did. They buy 5, 10, 20 acres average, they build a modern home with the money they sold their city house with. Some have a few animals, horses, a few cows, chickens, etc., but many don't. We don't, but we bought forest land.
If your plan is to work the land, I would not advise it unless you have been doing it most all your life. Again, it is very hard work. No way could I do it, probably not even in my prime and I was in construction alot of my life too.
As far as buying an existing running ranch or farm and taking it over, I have no advise there. From watching those TV series, haha, hard to get/keep good help. Oh, which brings up a good point. Most everyone here fixes their own things. Ranchers/Farmers have many trades, Electrician/Mechanic/Plumber/Carpenter, etc. Mainly in repairs though. They do hire out for big jobs but what we found it is no way like the city where you have dozens of companies to chose from. Also, to get someone out on a dime here is impossible. We were without water for a few days before a Plumber could get to us for a pipe break. Last few breaks I repaired them myself.
There are many things different out here. If Internet is important, make sure you have access to it, Starlink is popular out here. We have DSL, yes old Bell Internet
Lastly, I have been watching a few videos lately on does/don'ts of buying land. Many things you need to think of depending on where you buy and what you plan to do with the land. AG exemptions are great. Our son-in-law bought 10 acres about 5 years ago and the AG exemption carried over, I think he said he paid $40 property taxed. Not sure where he is at today, he now owns 35 acres with a house and barn...he comes out to their second home many weekends and work from home, the 1600 acre ranch sold lots and the AG carried over. They brought in fiber Internet and city water when they sold the land, it brought in alot of city folk buying, lots went quick, I think they were all gone in a year or less.
Bottom Line, We LOVE IT HERE!!! We will no way move back to the city unless forced
