Are you speaking from experience? Personally - speaking as someone who had needed to plant, hill, water, weed, and harvest plenty of sacks of potatoes by hand as a child - I would say that coding is vastly preferable over farming; and in fact, that most things are preferable over farming.
I've wondered for a while now, how difficult is sustainable farming now if you incorporated all the modern technologies?
It should be ridiculously easy to self sustain with all this stuff we've built! Instead we just work just as long to produce ton of crap that does nothing for our happiness.
I'm doing it with almost none of the modern technologies. Loving it so far, but it definitely isn't for profit. Farming is a losing business these days, few make profit that isn't effectively living off of government subsidies.
I wouldn't trade it for the world at this point though. Its a very strange, and satisfying, experience to raise, butcher or harvest, and cook food that you raised on farm.
I had saved up a good amount of money (before losing it all lol, where I could do this). I was thinking about buying some nice land, setting up an aquaponics farm, and just running some solar farms/generators.
No fret from me if you want to do it all by hand, but there really ought to be a middle ground between living as if it was the 1800s and working 8-10 hours day at a desk.
It very much depends on what you want to grow/raise and how you want to manage it. If your goal is to feed your family, you can pretty easily do that with a few hours of good work in a day when its all setup.
We don't do absolutely everything by hand, but we definitely avoided many of the modern approaches. We have 13 cows, 9 chickens and 20 chicks that just hatched, and a small garden (~3500 sq ft).
There's always certain jobs that take all day or multiple days, like cutting our fields (~50 acres), planting/harvesting, and butchering a pig was a huge undertaking given that we've never done anything like it before. On average, I'd say we put it 6-8 hours a day split between two people, with the occasional days of both working 8-10 hours each.
