Someone escaped the Matrix

Don’t be fooled he’s only going to hack tractors.

Back in my day John Deere let you FIX the tractors
- Now days we play doom on them
- He remembers the before-times!
- Ukrainians led the first front at "liberating" the John Deeres, so they can be turned right around to haul tanks.
If you come from IT, you never really quit. A little parser bug here, a small race condition there, or a fucking baking oven refusing to bake until you tell it what time it is. No hope, no escape.

I used to be a network engineer and I found farming bloody complicated. You might be very surprised at the breadth of knowledge it takes to successfully farm today.
- Kinda depends entirely on the scale we r talking about

I've had days where I've felt like doing that.

Farmin' CRYPTO on YO MAMA'S dusty old COMPAQ! 🎤🫳

We love that for him. Escape

I hope he finds farm life fulfilling.

I know a guy that did exactly this. I am living vicariously through him.

Break those rusty chains

As a software developer who started a farm this year, I'm getting a kick...

/ Still keeping my day job, though.

Farming is just a different matrix mode

So, how soon will they be back when they realize farming is an order of magnitude more stressful than IT work?

It's such a different type of stress (and job), people can find fulfilment in either of those while feeling overwhelmed by the other.
I think that really depends on both the IT role as well as the type and scale of farm. If someone has a really stressful workplace in IT but makes enough money to buy a farm and semi-retire, it could just be that having the farm supplements their food and doesn't need to turn a profit. It's very different to, say, a subsistence farmer or one who has to make a lot to pay for mortgage, retirement, etc.
- Honestly when I imagine someone in IT getting into farming, I imagine this. It's really an acreage with a garden and some animals, but they call it a farm, and aren't really interested in the actual farms.
  
  That, or they do a hipster-bespoke-organic goat farm, which lasts a few years before they run it into the ground because they're expecting it to be easy or work like IT. To anyone reading this, I would urge you to explore a significant but less radical change first - there's plenty of jobs not like coding.
Also, “have taken up farming” is a saying for “leaving IT” in general
He didn’t say he needed to make money farming.
Depends on how much subsidization they're getting
That's when they turn the farm into a themed hotel that is only open during select holidays.
I don't know about that, but it's not a "free lunch" and it's not the same as just looking at pretty scenery.

From a North American perspective, besides the absurd entry cost, it seems fairly similar to a being a long-haul truck driver or plumber. Simple, repetitive work that doesn't follow any predictable schedule. Physical arduousness depends on what you're growing and if you're going to hire scared brown people to do it for you.

You also get to live in an area that's close to nothing, surrounded by neighbors that think you're an elitist city prick and will never respect you.
- Simple, repetitive work that doesn't follow any predictable schedule
  
  I have multiple spreadsheets, have to monitor and adjust to a lot of different conditions, have to actively monitor pests and plant growth and react to those (and predict for the next year and be proactive), and a bunch of other stuff. Farming tends to very much follow a predictable schedule insofaras you know in any given season what you will be doing and what you need to be getting ready for.

I daydream about it. Sometimes* I curse the discovery of oil. Instead of herding goats I am debugging C++ template errors. Though I do love airconditioning.

* a lie, I never do :) though I do think about goat herding.

Should I do that everytime I "Go Fishing"?

I'm going fishing