{"id":1242505,"date":"2022-11-03T04:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/money-cant-buy-happiness-engineer-swaps-r30k-a-month-job-to-become-a-farmer-for-r3k\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T04:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:51:08","slug":"money-cant-buy-happiness-engineer-swaps-r30k-a-month-job-to-become-a-farmer-for-r3k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/money-cant-buy-happiness-engineer-swaps-r30k-a-month-job-to-become-a-farmer-for-r3k\/","title":{"rendered":"Money can\u2019t buy happiness: Engineer swaps R30K a month job to become a farmer for R3K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/9e5db3b7-c1ec-5285-b2a0-c67fb8a5e1bd&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x72&amp;resize=2000x1125\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Burnout. Mental breakdowns. Reaching rock bottom. These are all terms that have come to be associated with dead-end jobs many people are just in so they can pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p>But Tsogang Vukani Amkeni\u2019s story could inspire many of us to re-evaluate our lives, especially when it comes to our 9-5 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The former engineer, Amkeni explained in a recent tweet that he left his full-time engineering job to follow his dream to be come a farmer. By his own admission, he\u2019s the happiest he\u2019s been.<\/p>\n<p>According to his Twitter profile, he farms with chickens and is passionate about agriculture and food security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left a full-time job in engineering where I was taking home 30k a month and liberated myself into farming where I take home 3k a month \ud83d\ude02 and I\u2019m the happiest I\u2019ve ever been \ud83e\udd23 I have a friend who was taking home 45k, now he\u2019s making 6k for himself,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I left a fulltime job in engineering where I was taking home 30k a month and liberated myself into farming where I take home 3k a month \ud83d\ude02 and I&#8217;m the happiest I&#8217;ve ever been \ud83e\udd23 I have a friend who was taking home 45k, now he&#8217;s making 6k for himself \ud83d\udd7a\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udd7a\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udc83\ud83c\udfff<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tsogang_Vukani_Amkeni (@Tsogang3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tsogang3\/status\/1586975637922783234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amkeni\u2019s post caused quite the stir and sparked fierce debate among online users.<\/p>\n<p>Many admitted that they could relate to his story, while others doubted his rosy outlook on life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s give it 2 more months and see how it turns out,\u201d commented one tweet. <\/p>\n<p>Another said, \u201cIt\u2019s the mortgage man that brings me back to my senses whenever I feel like liberating myself\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02, and so this morning like most I put on a face, go to work, do fake smiles, end emails with \u2018kind regards\u2019\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02. Debt is slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone even commended him on the big leap of faith, and added: \u201cI envy your courage\u2026onwards and upwards with your farming business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And as always, there was that one joker: \u201cDo you pay debit orders with happiness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lifestyle\/health\/mind\/money-cant-buy-happiness-engineer-swaps-r30k-a-month-job-to-become-a-farmer-for-r3k-304bf5f5-a2b7-4d71-b888-4c1d6913add6\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnout. Mental breakdowns. Reaching rock bottom. These are all terms that have come to be associated with dead-end jobs many people are just in so they can pay the bills. But Tsogang Vukani Amkeni\u2019s story could inspire many of us to re-evaluate our lives, especially when it comes to our 9-5 jobs. The former engineer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}