Opposite Ends of the Spectrum

Previously, in Honors Forum...
Mr. Ross Berry, CEO of Shoals Hospital taught us the importance of working hard to become something and better yourself; he claimed that people who try to better themselves will always have a "hand up" to get where they are going. Mr. Berry started out in an unfortunate situation concerning the death of his parents. *Following this, more unfortunate occurrences kept, well, occurring! Regardless of his beginnings, Mr. Berry has successfully come from a poor background into a very successful career at the present date.

*See previous blog.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have Mr. William Lee, commercial farmer. Mr. Lee grew up in a farming family, and thus became a farmer himself. "Farming is a rather different career," he says, "because farming requires not putting a set price on products and dealing with uncertainties." This means that a lot of risk is required to be a farmer. Just like Mr. Berry, Mr. Lee is comfortable in this risk-taking environment. The difference in the two? Mr. Berry chose risk for self-development. Mr. Lee is comfortable in this atmosphere because it was brought on him.

That's right, folks: Mr. William Lee is a commercial farmer, simply because he was raised a farmer. Mr. Lee believes that most people do not choose to start farming or own a farming company by choice; for most people, farming chooses them. Fellow farmers, say it isn't so? In my opinion, farming is a very respectable field to be in! Everybody needs food to live on, and as a majority, well let's be honest, in good ole 'Merica, we like to eat. Farmers supply us with not only the crops we need, but the diversity in crops that we crave.

Personally, I believe the field of farming should generate more interest. Maybe if farmers advertised their field       and made it seem more alluring, then more people would want to become farmers, regardless of how they were raised. Anyone can learn anything they want to, it's just a matter of the will to learn. Lastly, if more people decided to go into farming as a career, then farming's success would increase as a whole.