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It's a lot of hard work, but it's fulfilling work.

You have to care for the livestock, muck out barns and chicken coops, plow land, plant crops and then constant weeding and feeding. Harvest crops. Bale hay. Load hay up on a wagon for transport to the barn. Clean out watering tanks. Repair fences. Pull calves and colts if the mother is having difficulty birthing them (you literally reach inside and yank 'em out). If you've got pigs, you've got to castrate the piglets shortly after they're born so they'll be good for butchering. Can food and make pickles, jellies and preserves. Ride out droughts where you stand to lose everything. Survive hailstorms that destroy your crops.

Farming/Ranching is a sun up to sun down job. And in between all these chores, you somehow have to find time to go to school, do homework, hang out with your friends.

It depends on what you are accustomed to.There are times when you just want to run away and find a new life that is easier to live and has more excitement in it.

When people visit a farm or ranch they only see and smell everything that is fresh and different from there urban or city environment and every horse is Flika and every cow is Lula Bell.

It is a far cry from paradise and lot's of work unless you are filthy rich and have a strictly fun ranch in which case that can even get old.

I suppose if you have never gone to a really nice theatre,been to a cool dance,gone rafting down a river,skied behind a fast boat,saw Las Vegas,ran all over Disneyland and had a girlfriend who had a vocabulary of more than 2000 words than you would love working and living on a farm or ranch.