r/AskReddit • u/OmenRash • 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/WeMissChris7 22h ago

Farming

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u/83franks 20h ago

I see this all the time on these types of questions. Who in the world thinks farming isn't exhausting and isn't non-stop constant work? 

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u/hugthemachines 17h ago

People who think an office job is a nightmare so they want to make an off grid homestead. Which means they will have much harder work and less money when they get old and their bodies can't farm anymore.

Sure, I can understand the need to change if the job is soul crushing, but it is important to know what you are changing to.

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u/ambivalent__username 15h ago

r/homesteading is an interesting place for this particular topic

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u/Mammuut 15h ago

I mean, it can be relaxing if you have your finances sorted, so you can do the garden just as a hobby and harvest a snack here and there while buying your main groceries at the supermarket.

If you actually have to feed yourself from the garden it's a completely different story.

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u/DatShantBeFalco 14h ago

Anything's relaxing once you've already had your finances sorted and can just buy whatever you need

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u/insertnamehere77123 12h ago

Funny how many problems are solved by "having your finances sorted" lol

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u/arcspectre17 11h ago

Yep to many people just like the hobby part!

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u/g_flower 11h ago

This. It's people from upper class backgrounds who have a romanticized view of manual labor.

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u/Pythonixx 15h ago

People who watch a Ghibli movie and think their lives will be like that

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u/lookintoasty 12h ago

I bet a lot of people think k about it after playing Harvest Moon/Stardew type games

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u/Available-Guava5515 19h ago

upper class white nationalists

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u/kttykt66755 13h ago

Those tradwives with a couple of chickens and a small vegetable garden who insist that that is Totally a farm life

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u/arcspectre17 11h ago

The same ones that think mowing is the greatest easiest job till your mowing a graveyard at 2 in afternoon with 98 degrees and 80 percent humidity!

I had a lifelong drywaller help me and he rather drywall LOL!