Hilarious that you have that saved. Any reason for why? Building up the courage to follow suit and use this for encouragement perhaps?

Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.

Not my fantasy.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html

Maybe try to take a sabbatical and start a garden instead. Farmers deal with annoying shit in their day jobs just like the rest of us… except theirs is literal!

I'm not a farmer but I'm from the midwest and I know a little about farming... very few are farmers by choice. Many have second jobs, just to pay the bills.

There are niche and upscale farms that grow specific things like apples and wine grapes that can do quite well, but these are well established family-run businesses that would cost millions of dollars to buy, when they come up for sale at all.

A bit like Perelman who rejected a Fields medal and then told a journalist who dared to ring him up after he had moved to the Russian countryside ‘You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms’.