Yes I hear you on all accounts. I know as I’ve been trying to deal with these fkwits for years and helping my parents out with thier justly due pensions and how they want all the techo crap that wasn’t even thought of 20 years ago let alone when they were born and do not take the time to explain things to them in laymens terms, you have to seek out side help to navigate.
I’m pretty tech savvy, but damn, with things not working in the last year due to new hardware failures and then software updates that fail has been crazy(not just me specifically but industry wide) to put it in laymens terms.
But I have no choice I HAVE to do it that way as they need all your Bass statements electronically lodged as they stopped postal years ago, and and and. Can’t pay cash, no banks anymore for hundreds of kilometers. No banks to cash checks at so they are not accepted anymore. It’s all electronic EFT transactions online and has to be or I can’t conduct business.
I need an office lady, tight skirt thanks… 
Boob toob be good on Fridays.
Been thinking long and hard about my situation for last couple years. Yep option A buzz off down a mine, have no life and miss my parents ageing out and dying while I grind away making 2 grand a week I wont have time to enjoy it with, then come out 10 years later and not physicly be able to enjoy any of it because I’ve flogged my body apart yet again.
Option B, do my unorthodox farming way. By unothodox I mean most if not all that are staying in are hitting Bendigo bank/Elders for loan extensions big time in the last year to keep going. The numbers are in the hundreds of billions, it is crazy the friend in the game I was chatting to. That’s only for this state, doesn’t include the rest of Australia.
I’m bucking the system and going to finalise the last $10k of my overdraught in the coming year first. Service the livestock with whatever they need including 400% dearer ear tags that are subsidised. They were 25 cents each. Now 95 cents because need electronic RFID chip in them by law or you can’t sell them. No benefit to me, need to buy a wand that is $1200 to read the ear tag chip, then hook it up bluetooth to your laptop in the dusty yards and have an electronic operated $30,000 draughting gate that reads the chip in ear tag and draughts them whatever way you set it with your $2000 laptop that just got covered in sheep shit and doesen’t work and sheep go everywhere. Then you drop it in the dirt. Then the draught gate sensor fucks up and you have to wait 2 weeks for a technition to come out and fix it at $150/hr plus travel.
Glad I don’t have 20,000 sheep like the McMahons do up the road. That’s a $20,000 dollar bill just for ear tags when they used to cost $5000. So yea. They are still visually imprinted with PIC number and farm name as per old ones. My eyeballs still work and that’s all I need to draught my sheep out. If I can’t see a male from a female and need a computer to do it for me. I should be shot.
Right, we doing angels in the wrong state now. Fan fucking tastic. Ring Pirsa for rego rebate, their headset shat the bed too, but got my details lodged for farm vehicle rego rebate that Malanuskis put through. That was fucking weeks ago, nothing but crickets.
