[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."