Joe had been out of work for a while and had given up hope of ever finding a job.
After much urging by a friend Mark, Joe applied for work on a farm.
The foreman decided to give Joe a try and told him to milk a cow, equipping him with a stool and a bucket.
An hour later Joe returned dirty and sweaty, the bucket in one hand and the broken stool in the other.
"Extracting the milk was easy," he explained. "The worst part was getting the cow to sit on the stool!"