Skills For An Uncertain Future
The skill set that you posses for your current job might not be transferable to a post-modern lifestyle, a post-collapse society, or a post-SHTF world that will require skills more aligned with down-to-earth survival, practicality and self-sufficiency.
Learning a broad range of practical skills and learning to do-it-yourself while using one’s own hands, time, and practical knowledge will help pull many people through hard times – should it ever come to that.
General knowledge and know-how of the underlying fundamentals, systems, and infrastructure that keep us alive in our day-to-day lives has unfortunately been mostly lost by the majority of our modern generation…
It is a certainty that a broad and practical skill set of these fundamentals will be much more valuable and trade-able in a post SHTF world than many of the skills that are held today. For those who learn them, even in today’s modern world, will realize a satisfaction, comfort, and peace of mind knowing that they are more self-reliant and less dependent upon others.
What are some of these skills? In random order off the top of my head, some may include…
Construction, Carpentry, Woodworking
Architecture, Structural engineering
Brick layer
Plumbing
Machining, Metal working, Welding, traditional methods & tools
Electrical
Alternative Energy, Solar, Hydro, Wind
Gardening
Horticulture
Farming
Cooking, traditional methods
Food preservation techniques
Sewing
First Aid, EMT, Nursing
Doctor, Surgeon
Dentistry
Natural remedies and medical treatment
Hunting
Trapping
Firearms, Gunsmith, Reloading, ShootingÂ
Security
Combat training
Septic, Water treatment and infrastructure
Building Fences, walls
Raising Livestock
Automobile/tractors/engine mechanic
Orienteering
Fishing
Teacher
Forestry, Wilderness survival
Each of the general categories in this list contain many sub-categories of more specific skills. In general, its simply a matter of looking at a more basic set of needs for one’s self or community rather than the skills associated with the extravagances of modern life that we’ve become accustomed to.
Comment and add your thoughts to the list…