MB, Canada | BLKCOW - 12/13/2025 04:08
My daughters boyfriend has been helping me off and on. Quite a bit last winter when I was pretty well laid up. He bought some later calving bred cows a year ago to run with mine. He sold a few of the bigger calves yesterday. $27,000 for 12 head of steers and heifers. Calves brought more than he paid for the cows. His regular job is selling real estate. Closed on a piece of property he'd been working on selling for a couple of months. His commission was $35,000. A fraction of the work for way more return.
This is precisely the disconnect from boomers to gen Z. The boomer way was to take conventional occupations and if you just kept at it long enough there was a ton of upward mobility. Hard work and loyalty to your employer was paramount. That's simply not the case anymore. There is money to be made by Gen Z but it's more niche and less traditional. Original entrepreneurship and going out to find the money is now the way rather than just putting your nose to the grindstone and letting it find you. Buying and selling volatile assets like real estate or designing a small business based around government contracts or private contracting is where the real money is now. The Gen Zers who are making money aren't making it by doing the work no one wants to do--they're making money by doing the work no one thought of yet. |
Are cattle to high?
