Rural-ish guys from my hometown were either disdainful of my tech thing and/or would totally put themselves down, saying how much smarter I was. It wasn't about being smarter, it was about my fascination with tech and the internet! I ran away as fast and as soon as I could.
If I find a techie in town, he isn't into kids or animals and I've got both. He probably won't like nature too much either and my son and I love it! He usually also has a tendency to yap, yap, yap about things I may like in small, regulated doses. You know, like computer processor speed, RAM, stocks, etc. I want to do my thing (websites, social media, software testing and training) and then go chill in nature with my little family, man!
BBQ, camp, fish, take a ton of pictures and try to finish any of my 20+ novels-in-progress .. that kind of thing. Truthfully, I wear a lot of hats so I automate everything I can. I pick a computer that will do what I want and need it to and that's that. I can fix them if I need to but otherwise, I don't sit there comparing stats. I save that for cars! LOL Stocks, investments and stuff, heck, that's what my IRA is for.
The last guy I dated used all my online posts and Tweets to craft a very lovely little image of a potentially happy family with a real father for my son. In the end, after this spiritual-leader-in-training (really) kept implying I had no feelings, I told him emotional blackmail didn't work with me and he said, oh, no wonder. I'm doing the let go and let God thing. I may have lost faith in religion and religious "leaders" but God I will ALWAYS believe in.
As much as it irks me to admit, perhaps I do need to return to my roots (although not my hometown) in order to be truly happy. After all, being a tech addict doesn't mean I have to be a corporate, city dweller anymore. Ag has changed and some operations are now more technologically advanced than a lot of other businesses!
Now with #agchat and social media, farm/ranch websites and blogs, and a host of other things, I'm able to cyber-stalk some couples who successfully manage to balance it all.
Who am I talking about? All you have to do is attend an #agchat chat on Twitter to find a host of people I consider positive role-models. I would name them by name but then this post would get way too long. You can check the list of blogs I follow for some of my favorites.
Then again, inspiring as those couples are, I don't need a man to be happy. I would like to have a "whole" family but heck, CJ and I have a life regardless. A life we are happy with for the most part. We homeschool, we travel/explore/adventure and we try to fit in some farm/ranch life whenever and wherever we can.
Maybe I should re-open my Virtual Assisting business and specialize in ag related tech, training and social media or heck, just get a job like that on a farm somewhere so I can have the best of both worlds.
Either way, my friends are going to giggle. After all, I ran away from the ag life just to realize you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl!
Wishing you much peace, happiness and success,
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