Buttbuuddies

This is really unsustainable. Idk how long you’ve been doing this but this will kill you long term.

I own 50 acres in the Santa Cruz mountains. This house is fully self sustaining I can go a month cut off from the world. So I have some insight in what it takes to do what your doing and how to manage a large property. But this is crazy. 3 hour commuting a day? What the fuck dude.

Not about being worth it. It’s about having a realistic long term plan. You’re going to bed at 11 and waking up before 5. You sleep less then 6 hours a night according to this schedule. Frankly it’s hard to believe it sounds so crazy. No person can sustainably work 18 hours a day. You’re only going to get older and more worn out and it sounds like you plan to take on even more projects like building a saw mill? When…. During the 1 hour a day at night you have after feeding the animals or do you plan to wake up at 3am. Do you have a tractor to haul trees around?

What you’re attempting to do is more then a full time job on its own. I don’t have any advice for you other then you need to figure out how to get a few more hours of your day back. I can tell you no matter what happens you won’t be working 18 hours a day at 40.

A lot of people have big properties just for privacy and serenity/nature but still just have real jobs. But that’s not homesteading. And I don’t think you have to be off grid. I think it’s more like operating a small farm enough to live off of, but not on such a scale that it would be considered comercial farming. Like if he sold enough timber from his mill, firewood, ect, and grew enough food and raised enough meat to live off of that would be it I’d say. I agree having a full time regular job plus a 3 hour commute doesn’t sound like homesteading to me. That sound like somone who has job but also just a lot animals. I hope his plan is to make enough money to quit his day job bc his schedule if you believe it is batshit. I can’t imagine it’s going well.