I am 32 and was sort of in the same situation as you years ago, only not as big of a farm. I wanted to have a landscape'n buisness and went after a degree in horticulture. With a year left in school I figured out that the kind of folks who will spend the kind of money needed for me to make good money (around here anyway) in landscape'n are not the kind of folks I wanted to spend my life around. With a year left I had two hort. classes left I had to take and a bunch of ag electives. I took all my electives in beef science and a tobacco production class. Came home, put out a tobacco crop and started looking for a job. Bounced around a few places, found out that second shift and tobacco don't mix! Ended up on nights working for the local chicken factory, ended up not be'n able to put up them. 6 years ago I got a job as a water treatment operoator with a local city, now I turn river water into something a person can drink. I work 12 hour night shifts, 3 days one week, 4 the next so I can farm half the time. While I do not work in my field of study a change in the state regs about the time I started makes a person with a BS degree much more desireable and in turn I make pretty good money just because of my degree. I went a long way around to say that if you are any where close to get'n done with school, stick it out if you can. That degree can pay for it's self even if you are not in the class room. Unless this 3rd shift gig is one of them once in a life time really great jobs you know will provide good benefits and cash flow forever, I would say pass this one up and finish your degree.
Now I make good money at my night job and make good money sell'n freezer beef. The folks around here who want a Cadillac landscape'n job done on a Kia budget are glad to pay what ever I ask a half a steer, and all I have to do is meet them in the slaughter house parking lot and take their money after their steer is weighed.
This is the best advice I can give you with what I know about your situation, feel free to email me if there is more to it that you don't want made public.
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