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flyinfarmer
Posted 11/19/2009 10:49 (#930148 - in reply to #929563)
Subject: RE: why do farmers



NE Iowa
I have had the same 'day job' for the past 21 yrs. I farm at night, on weekends, and during many of my vacation days. Many reasons I do this, but 1 big one is that I have zero confidence that I will be able to capture some of the thousands of $$ I have put into Social Security. Running a close 2nd is that I don't have a huge amount of confidence that my employers pension money will still be there once I retire from my day job. For me, farming represents a retrirement plan that has a whole bunch of other fringe benefits....
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