Thanks for your view, I don't disagree.  My parents weren't farmers but they worked from about 5 am till about 9 pm every day.  They were "addicted" to their jobs in the sense that they also believed they were not in a cut and dried 9 to 5 job (both worked in technology and were very successful at what they did), doing what they believed they needed to do to pay the bills.  Meanwhile, life passed us by and we never spent quality time together.