Have you ever worked in a primary industry?

In economics, the primary sector is the economic sector which comprises industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.

ive worked briefly or half assedly in farming and fishing, of the rest you couldnt get me down a mine on a tour but i think logging might be a bit of a lark, if slightly more deadly than ideal.

worked for a lot of oil and gas companies when I was younger, but not at the coal face, as it were

yeah im trying to figure out whether i for the purposes would differentiate between a miner and a health and safety officer and i think to be fair to the question we would have to

so

let that dictate the answers hence

we used to have a poster - i think his name was jacob - kind of an old-timey country music fan iirc. pretty sure he worked oilfield jobs.

extraction and the horrible legacy it leaves in the places where it's done isn't worth some of the things and some of the extent of things produced from it. a verdict you don't need to have worked those jobs to reach but one that's easy to see by just living in the western u.s. and paying attention to the land and native voices.

Yes - farming

we used to have a poster - i think his name was jacob - kind of an old-timey country music fan iirc. pretty sure he worked oilfield jobs.

JacobSanders. Married to *tera, if I recall correctly?

Farmers and hunters are a good expansion of what primary industry can look like on the smaller human-sized end of the spectrum. And I know I am the most annoying, and I'm interested to see Where Thread Go so I'm not actively trying to ruin it, but one thing that never gets classed as primary-tiered resource is having and raising children.

yeah i sort of question the category of "primary industry" tbh which scales from going out and shooting an elk to operating heavy machinery in a pit mine. "primary industry" for whom? and in orbit is otm that human care is .. a primary industry in all meaningful senses. when i'm faced with the categorical assumptions of the term "primary industry" i'm reminded of masculine identity being yoked to massively-scaled earth-destroying body-destroying endeavors. so you know i'm not actively trying to ruin the thread either and hope it opens up more interesting or more experience-related discussion but also kinda feel like it deserves to be ruined lol.

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map if you're ever in nyc istg you better tell me so I can cancel everything and hang out lol

awwww noted!

anyone ever worked in primary industries?

we'll do one for secondary industries next week ok

nb i think having children counts but raising them doesnt, based on quick ruling

"caring for humans" def not, secondary maybe tertiary depending

would be fairly weird to reclaim the term 'primary industry' so it's about human relationships or looking after kids. i mean just in the sense of the general steps that having and raising kids takes, feels kinda weird to compare these to fishing or mining or planting potatoes.

and i don't mean that to valorise the latter.

Yes - farming

― sarahell, 25 September 2025 14:44

was this seasonal labour or something else (i was pondering seasonal labour today as i drove through vineyards)

xp what's wrong with "planting" (ok jackeen that'd be sowing fyi) potatoes?

good enough for heaneys ppl so twas

Errrr kinda

was excavating the tollund man primary industry?

xpost

have a special job for d in the primary industry of licking my taint

i kid i kid

we have threads about poetry and cum and soil.

im asking, itt, if or how many ilxors have done primary industry * jobs ** and what that experience was

later on*** we'll get to what it brought them ito current beliefs and life experience and etc now i hope but for now the above will be interesting to hear about

* we'll just use the normal definition pls for thread purposes if we can

** for purposes as noted maybe the worker/labourer/coalface roles are the relevant ones?

*** after the usual

xp <3

and def sounds more like service industry to me anyway cmon pls this stuff is clearly set out

nb this is NOT a companion thread to my boorishness (which i admitted and retracted) in the wfh thread

these days i am as far from coalface work as it gets it is not in dispute

With that clarification,

Errr kinda

One less r you’ll note

That was not meaningful

iirc you do tho, or def did

but admittedly the roles might be kinda where this goes down to interpretation tbf

manys the lokel would protest that i ever did any farming, having seen the attempts

I briefly worked loading hay bales from the field onto a trailer
But I suffer from hay fever so not really an ideal career

Yeah I think “yeah” is the correct honest answer but still feels a bit wrong, I have been out working in the literal field at least twice tho!

you're a yes, deal with the imposter syndrome at home in private off the clock imo

andy the grass hopper

lol that's about right

anyway that sounds legit

you're in

what even is an industry tho

was excavating the tollund man primary industry?

xpost

Well

In the flat country near by
Where they dug him out,
His last gruel of winter seeds
Caked in his stomach,

Sounds like they were farming or cutting turf

Later poem refers to

The scattered, ambushed
Flesh of labourers,
Stockinged corpses
Laid out in the farmyards,

Sounds like more farm workers

Anyway not me myself but generations of my family are farmers.

not only have I not done this, but it would be my worst nightmare and completely beyond any physical, mental, emotional or cognitive skils that I have developed. I am thankful for the people who do this work and I admire their ability but it simply could never be me for so many reasons.

I also worked in a lumber yard... but that's not 'primary,' right? It was retail

I tarped and strapped lumber to trucks at a lumber yard for a while. Not really primary industry, I don’t think. It was good work tho

Yes, SXEW copper mining (solvent extraction electro-winning), and the extraction and processing of landfill gas into LNG.

I've worked in heavy industry … but in head office.

Oh wait, it was secondary not primary, ignore me till next week's thread and probably then too.

I did some farm work from 12-20. Mostly picking fruit and veg and some chucking hay bales around. It was hard work but some of the veg picking paid v well for the time. Worst job - planting potatoes, jesus fuck my back

id have thought more of us than this

i was ready to be beguiled by the possibility of living seasonally and innocently travelling around

will post a secondary thread in a few days, if nobody else?

we really need an @ function!

I have worked in primary industry but not in a physical labor way. My grandfather (and his father) ran a large fresh foods wholesaler supplying restaurants/hospitals from like WW2 til the early 90s. I worked there briefly in the farm shop on site running the register and taking some orders from places.

They had a lot of immigrant farm labor. They used DDT back in the day before it was banned. Grandad lived to 103.

I should correct that to say GROWING and supplying restaurants etc. He didnt grow all the food, some was just distro (cant grow shit like bananas in cold climate southern NSW), but a lot was grown onsite.

Errrr kinda

― GY!BP (wins), Thursday, September 25, 2025 4:41 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEC-EacPCc