Would you pick crops for double your current salary? (debt, job, interest)
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Starting next week. Quit your job, head to a farm say 15 minutes away, and pick crops eight hours a day, five days a week? Yes you get the same medical and dental benefits and yes the same 401(k).
Would you do it? Also, provide your age if you're comfortable. If "No", then what factor of your current salary would you say "Yes", Three times? Four times? etc
Though this is very unscientific, I would wonder if younger presumably lower paid, but possibly fitter people would be willing to do it. On the other hand older, presumably higher paid people could make a financial killing especially if they were near retirement and didn't have to worry about this entry on their resume.
I'll start. No, I wouldn't. The extra money wouldn't make me that much happier and the stoop labor would be miserable. I am 51. I'd probably do it for four times my current salary.
Yes, but I would bring a bucket and sit on that or squat down and pick the vegetables. Why do they have to hunch over like that?
To answer your question, yes I would. 2x what I make now would be over 100k.
Picking vegetables is tedious and boring.... sounds like the job I have now- tedious and boring, so that aspect wouldn't be all that different. I'd invest the extra cash and retire early.
Yes, but I would bring a bucket and sit on that or squat down and pick the vegetables. Why do they have to hunch over like that?
Was this a serious question? The plants aren't on an assembly line that passes by you in a factory - you're the assembly line going past the plants. You've gotta keep it moving. They aren't in one spot for long.
I would do it for double my salary on the premise that I could move up in the operation and be a supervisor or manager of the process in a given period of time for even more money. The one thing I hate about work-especially where I am now-is no progression/regression. If I had an eye on a prize, in this case getting out of the labor part of the job, I would do it.
Yes, but I would bring a bucket and sit on that or squat down and pick the vegetables. Why do they have to hunch over like that?
To answer your question, yes I would. 2x what I make now would be over 100k.
Picking vegetables is tedious and boring.... sounds like the job I have now- tedious and boring, so that aspect wouldn't be all that different. I'd invest the extra cash and retire early.
Would you mind telling us your age? I would find it interesting to know if you were 25 or 60 for example.
I would do it for double my salary on the premise that I could move up in the operation and be a supervisor or manager of the process in a given period of time for even more money. The one thing I hate about work-especially where I am now-is no progression/regression. If I had an eye on a prize, in this case getting out of the labor part of the job, I would do it.
You'd could move up just like anyone else picking crops could move up. Would you do it? How old are you?
I'd do it in a heartbeat. For double the salary I had when I had a 'real' job? Sure! I'd be at nearly 100k and living in a place where 91k bought me a big house on a really good size slab of land. I'd be debt free in less than a year and the rest would start being banked for retirement early. I've got two grandkids to raise and a husband dying of MS. If I could double my salary and be able to retire sooner and enjoy any time with them I can? Heck yeh, I'd be all over it.
I'm female and 41 years old.
For double the 'salary' I just lost? No way.
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