[begueradj]

A quick look at the profiles of teenagers on TikTok, Instagram and OnlyFans make me believe they have the physical and mental strength and will to work long hours in the sun in maybe the most physically taxing work ever: farm work.

[ipnon]

It's not that it's physically difficult. You don't have to lift very heavy or have much knowhow other than how to remove a husk from a corncob. But it's incredibly toilsome and boring. You get bussed out from your city or town for a few hours to the middle of nowhere. You bring a gallon of water and don your hat for shade. Then you trudge along endless rows of corn, husking and husking. The corn literally goes as far as your eye can see. You do this from sun up to sun down. Then you go home and shower and pass out in bed, wake up a couple hours before dawn and do it again. My friends, I wouldn't see them for months! They would disappear during June and July and reappear a few thousand dollars richer, usually having lost a lot of weight and with a roasted tan.

[mmooss]

> It's not that it's physically difficult.

The OP very strongly disagrees, as do other descriptions I've read.

People here are talking about all farm work as the same thing; I think that betrays complete ignorance.

[potato3732842]

I'm sorry, but this hand wringing is just a joke.

Farm work ain't great. It's repetitive and rarely if ever ergonomic. There's plenty of reasons anybody who can do something more skilled or better paid does. But it's way less taxing than just about any job where the tool used is a shovel or sledgehammer.

Yeah, if your frame of reference is skilled work or office work it all sucks but there's very much degrees to it.

[mmooss]

If you ridicule people, does it enhance or reduce your credibility? Does it make your argument stronger or weaker?

[begueradj]

Quoted and copy/pasted:

"Health conditions occurring more frequently among farmers in comparison with non-farmers were hypertension and other cardiovascular disorders as well as ear-nose-throat (ENT) and orthopaedic problems."

[blitzar]

Tell them it is a content farm and they will pay you for the summer.

[astrange]

I hope you're not finding teenagers on OnlyFans, that sounds illegal.

[7bit]

You can be a model on OnlyFans starting at 18 years.

[astrange]

Not that I spend a lot of time thinking about the definition of "teenager", but I always thought it implied you were a minor. That's what "young adult" is for.

[aaomidi]

Working on a farm and only fans both are effectively selling your body.

Which one pays more?