Yeah I too went to ag school and then got into coding.
It's pretty hard to be a farmer coming out of ag school unless your family has a farm already for you to run since the entry costs are so high. I still produce a lot of my own food via a family farm, but god I'm glad it's not my main job. I make a mistake when coding and things can be bad, but usually they are OK especially if you have revision control and a good workflow.
I make a mistake farming and things die and I have nothing to eat or sell. Then there are just random inexplicable things that screw you over. Yes, this happens in IT, see what happened with Cloudflare this week, but imagine if that lasted for months, even years, and you could never switch providers- that's how badly weather can screw you over.
I worked in academia IT for a bit and took archaeology classes for fun. It's no surprise that ancient farmer's bones have markers like pitting that indicate periods of severe malnutrition.
It's pretty hard to be a farmer coming out of ag school unless your family has a farm already for you to run since the entry costs are so high. I still produce a lot of my own food via a family farm, but god I'm glad it's not my main job. I make a mistake when coding and things can be bad, but usually they are OK especially if you have revision control and a good workflow.
I make a mistake farming and things die and I have nothing to eat or sell. Then there are just random inexplicable things that screw you over. Yes, this happens in IT, see what happened with Cloudflare this week, but imagine if that lasted for months, even years, and you could never switch providers- that's how badly weather can screw you over.
I worked in academia IT for a bit and took archaeology classes for fun. It's no surprise that ancient farmer's bones have markers like pitting that indicate periods of severe malnutrition.