In the UK with arable you can potentially make money (although probably not), and it isn't a crazy amount of work. You plant crops in the autumn, spray them a couple of times, then it's too wet to get into the field and do anything during the winter even if something goes wrong. Only really busy time is a couple of weeks in the summer for harvest.

On the other hand, livestock farming is incredibly hard work (cows need to be milked 365 days a year) and you more or less always lose money.