I'm proud to be in the 2%

I am proud to say I am part of the 2% in the USA.
I realized that the majority worked in towns and cities, mostly inside jobs. Others, like truckers, carry all sorts of things to people everywhere.
What I didn't realize - only 2% of the population raise crops and livestock that feed themselves and the other 98%. I thought there were more of us
Farming and Ranching are also in the top 4% of dangerous jobs. That I knew. Been run over by calves, horses as well as thrown off by the later.
I and those like me, would never trade farming and ranching for a town job. The worst thing I know of, having worked in town, is being cooped up in an office all day with loud machines, noisy people, and little if any fresh air.

Skytiger wrote:

I am proud to say I am part of the 2% in the USA.
I realized that the majority worked in towns and cities, mostly inside jobs. Others, like truckers, carry all sorts of things to people everywhere.
What I didn't realize - only 2% of the population raise crops and livestock that feed themselves and the other 98%. I thought there were more of us
Farming and Ranching are also in the top 4% of dangerous jobs. That I knew. Been run over by calves, horses as well as thrown off by the later.
I and those like me, would never trade farming and ranching for a town job. The worst thing I know of, having worked in town, is being cooped up in an office all day with loud machines, noisy people, and little if any fresh air.

I did farming for a total of about ten years back in the Seventies and Eighties, but always on rented land with me or my wife working full time at a "day job", usually in the computer field, and it looks to me like majority of Americans who work small farms are forced to do to also work on the side. I also wonder if the employees of the big corporate agrobusiness are counted as farmers in the surveys or as industrial workers, since most of them are both at the same time. In any case, though I wonder why this vital 2% of the population gets so little positive media coverage...