Dave H (MI)
Well-known Member
How about a proud Dad story?
I have been very resistant to my daughters following me into the CPA practice. It is very hard to get the license and a nuisance to take all the continuing education. The government legislates me half to death. I have to be the health insurance cop for the nation. And, frankly, one gets tired of being told that anybody with a computer and a cheap software package can do what you do. Phew...that felt good!
So my eldest daughter loves farming and has long been my good right arm. She can do anything, I won't bore you with a list. She enrolled at MSU in their animal science department and had a talent around the cattle barns as well as others. She wanted to work in extension but it is a shadow of what it was before Granholm. Not much there. She had already figured out that there was not enough money on our place for a full time salaried farm manager...other than me and I bet many can imagine what my compensation is like! I encouraged her to take up a profession, like her dad, but a different profession. Then she could make money off farm and spend it ON FARM! So she decides she wants to try for vet school. Probably one of the hardest things she could have picked. She worked an extra year and a half on prerequisites she did not have. Got herself a job at an emergency vet clinic where she does just about everything there is to do except surgery. Yesterday she walked in my office with a letter. Accepted to the Michigan State University School of Veterinary Medicine. Starts in the fall. Has to live up there for four years. Won't see her much at the farm for a while. Very sad/very, very proud. Who would have thought that little girl...
I have been very resistant to my daughters following me into the CPA practice. It is very hard to get the license and a nuisance to take all the continuing education. The government legislates me half to death. I have to be the health insurance cop for the nation. And, frankly, one gets tired of being told that anybody with a computer and a cheap software package can do what you do. Phew...that felt good!
So my eldest daughter loves farming and has long been my good right arm. She can do anything, I won't bore you with a list. She enrolled at MSU in their animal science department and had a talent around the cattle barns as well as others. She wanted to work in extension but it is a shadow of what it was before Granholm. Not much there. She had already figured out that there was not enough money on our place for a full time salaried farm manager...other than me and I bet many can imagine what my compensation is like! I encouraged her to take up a profession, like her dad, but a different profession. Then she could make money off farm and spend it ON FARM! So she decides she wants to try for vet school. Probably one of the hardest things she could have picked. She worked an extra year and a half on prerequisites she did not have. Got herself a job at an emergency vet clinic where she does just about everything there is to do except surgery. Yesterday she walked in my office with a letter. Accepted to the Michigan State University School of Veterinary Medicine. Starts in the fall. Has to live up there for four years. Won't see her much at the farm for a while. Very sad/very, very proud. Who would have thought that little girl...