<p>Your post notes your college education is nearly cost-free to you, so you’re not a financial burden upon your immediate family. Please continue your college education uninterrupted, without family-imposed feelings of guilt, and don’t feel compelled to leave to help on the family farm. Yes, your extended family may desire your free labor, but neither the farm nor your family “own” you. Your interests extend far beyond the farm. I understand the farm community dynamic where “saving the family farm” becomes the first priority for the extended family without regard to personal goals and ambitions, but that doesn’t mean you’re under the obligation to conform to that rigid (and single-minded) expectation. Some relatives can feel that a family member is “getting too big for their britches” when they don’t conform to the group-think family expectations. These relatives are being selfish too.</p>