Reply #118: It sucked because I had to deal with people who were pissed off all day [View All]

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PLEASE believe that if I had a choice between being a ranch hand or going back to Level One IT help desk I'd pick ranch hand every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I would trade an air conditioned cubical with snack and soda machines to go work out in the hot-ass Texas sun. Because herding cattle beats the SHIT out of dealing with argirvated humans any day of the week. Cattle don't scream at me. Cattle don't threat to get me fired if I didn't wave my magic IT wand and un-fuck the situation they created by being stupid. Bailing hay, moving 50 pound bags of feed, fixing a tractor...hell, some days I miss that stuff. In fact, on my vacations it's not terribly unlikely you'll find me doing just that sort of thing at my grandfather's ranch because - and I know this is shocking to you - some of us don't find manual labor to be the hell you make it out to be.

You are STILL confusing "jobs that are hard" with "jobs that no one wants to do."

Mind blow, I know...some people actuall even PREFER manual labor jobs to white collar IT jobs! Take two of my best friends back home. One has a masters degree in History. One has a BS degree in the IT field. Both of them are fire-fighters. Why? Because they like being fire fighters! A job where they put themselves at a great deal of personal risk, which is hard, which requires them to often work in a very hostile environment (read: blazing inferno).

And yet, both of them have CHOSEN to be fire fighters instead of being white collar workers!

The sooner you realize that not everyone wants to be an architect, the sooner you're going to realize why what you're proposing is a really bad idea.