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 08-12-2011, 10:27 PM | #31 | Happy Kahr Family! Join Date: May 2009 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 1,904 |
Marketable skills is a tough one for me and I've been thinking about it a lot.
I am an expert in what I do for a living. I am dedicated to getting better, always. However, my line of work is dominated by the government. So as government fades, my line of work will falter.
Then, within my "industry" I am specialized in such a way that a fallen society really wouldn't need my skills.
Without an intact, healthy society, my very specialized skills (though I am a leader in my field) would be next to worthless. I don't know how to position myself in a way that I could offer some skill of value if society were to collapse.
Anybody else in my situation? __________________
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12 gauge, 5.56x45mm NATO, .30-30 Win
1 Peter 3:15-16 "But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." | 
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| 08-12-2011, 10:33 PM | #32 | Deader Bears=Better Bears Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: BFE, Mississippi Posts: 10,078 Likes Given: 3
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^^^ Yup, my accounting skills wouldn't be very valuable. Of course, i have other skills, as i am sure you do, that would be useful, some even marketable in such a situation. __________________
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| 08-12-2011, 11:27 PM | #33 | Happy Kahr Family! Join Date: May 2009 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 1,904 |
Yes, but my skills would not rise to the level of expertise that I have in my field. I sometimes wish I was a gunsmith or an electrician or a machinist or a doctor/EMT or something that could be more useful (in a survival sense).
I might just be a well-armed menial laborer wiling to work hard. __________________
.45 acp, 9mm, .38 spl +p, .380 acp, .22 long rifle
12 gauge, 5.56x45mm NATO, .30-30 Win
1 Peter 3:15-16 "But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." | |
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| 08-12-2011, 11:41 PM | #34 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: , NW AK Posts: 523 |  Alternative skills as a Hobby
If you cannot make a living presently at a given skill make it a hobby, they have hobbiest soap makers, and wool spinners, weaving your homespun, making buckskins, gardening, goats as a hobby, rabbits as a hobby, keeping bees as a hobby, coastal guys can learn to make sea salt, dried seaweed are good trade items, teas, and herbal meds, Do you even own a good carpentry hatchet? and box plane? draw knife? have you made shingleing horse?
How about blowing glass? makeing pottery crocks and jugs, anybody lnow how to make a saw blade and set the teeth? make cut nails and spikes.
You fellas needing a shave? with walmart closed and no electric a old fashoned barber may be The New In, Does anybody have a way to sharpen hair clipper blades?
I know I cant sing fer s***e, so its a music instrument that's cordless.
The Alto recorder is pleasant on ears at the end of a looong day(been playing fer 5years), the harmonica, the Irish bodhran drum(think Titanic) the tin whistle, Bones, Spoons, MouthHarp, Mandolin...with a stockpile of extra strings
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Carving a Kuksa Cup tutorial- jonsbushcraft.com
How to Carve a Traditional Laplander Kuksa Cup
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| 08-12-2011, 11:49 PM | #35 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: , NW AK Posts: 523 | The governments is here to help you.
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| 08-13-2011, 12:23 AM | #36 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: , NW AK Posts: 523 | Pitch in and help.
In days before the world went to the net entertainment was on you, half my life I grew up rural, being 18 miles from the nearest town you did stuff you would never thought of as work or entertainment?
Castrating Horses
Spade up your Aunties garden
Help the women folks can food
Building cousin Eddies new deck on his doublewide.
Skinning dead animals and caring for the pelts.....skunks are best done in winter.
Cut your kids hair
Clip your dogs toenails
Prune a fruit tree
Building fence
harvesting hay
help dig a grave sometime its educational (I want in winter)
branding cattle...entertaining work
sometimes helping a fella out you learn stuff, and its entertaining.
next time your friend wants to change his gas pump or rebuild the transmission in his Subaru Help him out and learn somthing in the process.
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| 08-15-2011, 10:24 PM | #37 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Posts: 538 |
Just to put it out there. If S really HTF HARD and wont be back to normal for some time or you cant see it comeing back anytime soon money is always an issue but no amount of money speaks louder than a gun in the hands of someone that knows how to use it damn good. God forbid it does though. __________________
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| 08-16-2011, 12:04 AM | #38 | Supporting Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Radcliff, Kentucky Posts: 3,507 |
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Originally Posted by CHLChris
Marketable skills is a tough one for me and I've been thinking about it a lot.
I am an expert in what I do for a living. I am dedicated to getting better, always. However, my line of work is dominated by the government. So as government fades, my line of work will falter.
Then, within my "industry" I am specialized in such a way that a fallen society really wouldn't need my skills.
Without an intact, healthy society, my very specialized skills (though I am a leader in my field) would be next to worthless. I don't know how to position myself in a way that I could offer some skill of value if society were to collapse.
Anybody else in my situation?
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OH MY GOD...your a politician...Just Joking __________________ Lo there do I see my Father...Lo there do I see my mother and my brothers and sisters...Lo there do I see the line of my peoples back to the begaining...Tho they do call to me...They bid me come take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla...Where the brave may live forever
Opaww's Range
Long distance..The next best thing to being there, if you are anywhere between 100-700 yards my Howa and I own you and will choose your time of death. opaww | |
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| 08-16-2011, 12:08 AM | #39 | Supporting Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Radcliff, Kentucky Posts: 3,507 |
I myself really have little to nothing to bring, even the skills I do have vs. the health would make me a liability to any group so I refrain from even joining or preparing for one.
As of now I am just going to stay home throw in the DVD of The Patriot and watch my wondows and doors. __________________ Lo there do I see my Father...Lo there do I see my mother and my brothers and sisters...Lo there do I see the line of my peoples back to the begaining...Tho they do call to me...They bid me come take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla...Where the brave may live forever
Opaww's Range
Long distance..The next best thing to being there, if you are anywhere between 100-700 yards my Howa and I own you and will choose your time of death. opaww | |
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