Farm work isn’t considered “work experience “

The teens who help me around the farm, primarily splitting and stacking wood, have been trying to get part time jobs. They put me as a work reference and list working on a farm as experience.

apparently the city folk don’t understand what farm work is. They don’t consider it real work. We all know it is the most real work there is.

 

Most city people don’t have a clue

 

Invite the naysayers to the farm to have a "not really work day".

 

That's ridiculous!
Most country folk are much more well rounded in real world knowledge than those city slickers

 

Funny movie.

 

No sense in that, they'd only get in the way.


I worked on farms as a teen, but now it's hard to find any youth worth hiring, or that are willing.

Often times it seems the parents are most against their children doing "labor".


"Laborers" are not given due respect in today's culture. Hence all the available work for illegals... err.. "Undocumented" workers.

 

Doesn’t make sense; it isn't the type of work, it is the quality of the work; did they show up on time; didn't take any unnecessary breaks, did the work correctly; didn't have to be reminded constantly and so forth. However, I have been in the same place as the kids. "What, you never worked in a factory before; get the hades out of here." Didn't matter that I was innovated on the jobs I did have; could learn new tasks quickly; actually took on duties that were not required of me and were not asked of me; actually preferred to work through my breaks instead of sitting in a break room for 15 minutes; also the 30 minute dinner break for that matter.

 

No offense intended.. but the two situations are not equivalent.

If a person comes from a "laborer" background, but has the skill set required to do a "technical" job, they may excel.

However.. a "technically" inclined person may have enough ability, but may not have the required endurance for the job.

Furthermore, most bosses on a jobsite do not want someone who is gonna try to "rethink" exactly how things should be done.

Technically inclined people tend to analyze the job, rather than follow the orders they're given.

Furthermore, if an employer is looking at training an employee for long term hire, they're seldom willing to expend the time and resources on an individual that will likely bail once the next better job shows up.

 

If a job is stacking boxes then that is what I will do all day long, stack boxes. Just because I may know how to do something else is not a good reason to not hire me to stack boxes. Heck, I may be the best dang box stacker you have ever hired. I applied for a job at Big Lots during one of the Christmas seasons. They rejected me. When I visited the store I noticed they hired someone that was trying to make a career out of stacking paper towels on a shelf, a job that would have taken me a few minutes and then had me on to the next task. But hey, if someone don't want to hire me stacking boxes just because I spent the time to gain an education that is their lost.

Just like the guy that wouldn't hire the kids because they worked on a farm and not some other job; it is the lost of the guy that wouldn't hire them because they were probably really good workers.

 

I agree 100%. Teens looking for part time work usually means no skill set required but a good work ethic is looked for. Do they show up on time and are the efficient courteous workers is what is looked for

 

No argument here.. it is the employers loss.

Part of the process.

And, I'm certainly not saying you wouldn't have been one he!! of a box stacker.


I, like you, have been turned down on jobs because I "wouldn't be a good fit".

When going to school after the military, I applied at McD's, BK, several pizza spots, and was told..
"You wouldn't enjoy it here."

I was like.. "And everyone else does?"


I'm certain they were right, but I still wanted work.

 

Far too often "wouldn't be a good fit" means overqualified.

There's likely a parallel there with "farm work" as well.

 

I've never fully understood the term "overqualified".

Sure, it's not like my skill set was limited to "non-technical laborer", but I was willing to perform the required functions while I was attending school.

Certainly wasn't looking for a "culinary career" at those establishments.

Either way, that was a looong time ago.

 

Overqualified means they know your going to be underpaid.

 

They know you will know you are underpaid.

 

Just applying for a job doesn't guarantee the position is yours, no matter how qualified, over or under or exact fit, you may think you are.

That's is the whole point of the interview. Something else must have signaled a "red flag" to the employer. Doesn't matter if the person hired is a sub-standard employee compared to you or not; it's what that company decided to go with.

Applying for a job and not getting hired is part of life, move on. Doesn't make you a sub-standard performer or change your work ethics, right?

Looking back over the decades my work career, I am very thankful that I did not get some of the jobs I applied for!

 

I starting working on the farm at 11 and continued until I was 19. The last few summers I grew to hate it. I hated it so much that last year that when I got home from college and started working, I began a countdown until college started up again. I did this on my desktop calendar and it felt like I was counting down days of my life. I vowed I would never have a job that made me feel that way ever again. With that being said, every other job I’ve had in my life has seemed easy because of those years spent on the farm and I haven’t met too many people that can keep up with me when it comes to physical labor. When others start to pizz and moan about doing a job that sucks, I just plow forward and get it done while they struggle. I thank those years on the farm for that. Hard work on the farm, 7 days a week is not comparable to many other jobs and anyone who won’t consider hiring kids who have worked on a farm are idiots and are missing out.

 

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