But I garden like it was my job, and I find the time outside, working in the dirt, and doing something so dare I say primitive, provides and excellent counterpoint to the sterile sedentary and largely abstract productivity. I definitely feel the same pull towards a simpler life as those who voted farming, but I've found through the books I've read and people I meet that the most "successful" farmers were the ones who bucked the usual way of doing things. They didn't get rich, but they aren't up to their ears in debt.
For those of you who did pick farming, I'd love to hear how you thing a mind that was trained in IT might approach or change the way farming is done. Not to spam but I started a discussion on my blog here:
http://existentialfarmer.dyndns.org/?p=158Kory
