What is the glamor that attracts people to ranching?  The hat? A pickup with a dog in the back? A new aluminum trailer? Boots & jeans? A cool look?

It's such an insult. Is ranching considered such a menial occupation that anyone can do it by just buying cows and renting grass? I don't want to be a doctor or a lawyer or a nurse or whatever. I have respect for those professions and the intelligence to know what I can do and do not want to do. We have a local doctor who is close to retiring. Know what he wants to do?....become a cowboy.. for God's sake. Admiration is one thing,  but to think you can just wake up one morning and want to be  a rancher or a cowboy, how demeaning this is to those of us who are and have been our entire lives. Apparently, money can make you whatever you want to be.

Stepping down off one of my Pet Peeve soap boxes.