Y'all don't seem to understand what cotton picking actually entails
Cotton plants have *thorns*
Cotton plants grow low so you'd have to constantly bend over. This can cause long term effects. **YOU MAY NEVER STAND STRAIGHT AGAIN**
Cotton tends to not want to leave the plant. It's hard to pick!
There's a reason people were used instead of machines. It's difficult work.
People do a lot more difficult, dangerous, and harmful to the body jobs than that for minimum wage. With that money acquire some safety gear and a chiropractor.
Picking cotton is probably one of the most difficult forms of farm labor that there is. That said, for $50 an hour, 40 hours per week, that's $2000 per week. Cotton picking season is usually Aug (ish) - Feb (ish) where I lived, so about $50,000, give or take.
Yeah, I would do it if you could extend the season out to a full year ($100k / year).
it’s still way more than you’d make in the US farming cotton with all that machinery and equipment, and even more so than people who have to do it by hand still like china or india
Oh absolutely, you would come off better than most cotton farmers, but I was thinking in terms of how much work you do for the $$ in comparison to other lines of work.
Cotton plants have *thorns*
Cotton plants grow low so you'd have to constantly bend over. This can cause long term effects. **YOU MAY NEVER STAND STRAIGHT AGAIN**
Cotton tends to not want to leave the plant. It's hard to pick!
There's a reason people were used instead of machines. It's difficult work.
Yeah, I would do it if you could extend the season out to a full year ($100k / year).