RYAN VOILAND
(introduced in
Rule #3
)
Current job:
Ryan, along with his wife, Sarah,
runs Red Fire Farm, a thriving
organic farm in Granby,
Massachusetts.
Why he loves what he does:
Ryan has been training in
horticulture since he was a teenager.
To now own land that he can
cultivate on his own terms is deeply
fulfilling to him.
How he applied the rules
described in this book to get this
job:
Many people harbor a rosy image
of farm life. They imagine it would
be nice to spend time outdoors in
nice weather and be free from the
distractions of the modern office.
Spend time with Ryan at Red Fire,
however, and this myth is quickly
dispelled. Farming, it turns out, is
hard work. The weather is not
something you enjoy, as if on
vacation, but instead a force poised
to play havoc with your crops. And
far from being free from modern
distractions, a farmer is a
businessman, with all the e-mail,
Excel spreadsheets, and
QuickBooks software that come
along with that role. The reason
Ryan loves what he does, it turns
out, is not that he gets to be outside
or be free from e-mail, but instead
that he has control—over both
what he does and how he does it.
This trait, as described in
Rule
#3
, is crucial for creating work you
love. What’s important about
Ryan’s story is that he didn’t just
decide one day that farming would
provide nice control and then go
buy some land. Instead, he
recognized that control, like any
valuable career trait, requires career
capital to acquire. With this in
mind, he built up his farming skills
for over a decade before setting out
on his own. It started with
cultivating his parents’ garden and
selling produce by the road. From
there, he slowly built up his abilities
by taking on larger cultivation
projects. By the time he left for
Cornell to study horticulture, he
was renting land from a local
farmer. It wasn’t until after he
earned his degree that he applied
for a loan for his first parcel of
land. Given his expertise, it’s not
surprising that his new farm
thrived. He’s a perfect example of
both the value of control and the
patient capital acquisition required
before you can gain this trait in
your working life.
LULU YOUNG
(introduced in
Rule #3
)
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