***I worked in the fields as a kid...and have fond memories of it.***
I did too and I don’t have fond memories of it! 105 degrees, 85% humidity, picking green beans for a penny a pound. Made $5.00 one day!
Three weeks later it was dry, the beans were light and we got a penny a pound. Picked the same amount of beans and got $2.80 a day.
No sir! No fond memories! My brother passed out in the field one day it was so hot!
Me too. I did all of the farm chores and while not loving all of it, I am so aware of how it helped me to become a productive adult.
My mother picked and sorted peaches in California’s Central Valley before someone determined that those were “jobs that Americans just won’t do” and decided to import tens of millions of illegals from Mexico and Central America.
Mother needed the money to put herself through college, there was no aid in those days for DIRT poor kids. She said the temperatures often reached 105 and higher.
Dad worked in truck gardens in the mid-west, but he came off of a farm so he was used to picking and sorting crops.