Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Skills for the coming collapse

I've been thinking of ways to acquire skills that could be helpful in a rough situation or the bad times that are coming to the whole world. I'm an international listener since the show is produced in the USA but I can see the writing on the wall that we are all going to need skills to survive no matter where we live.

When you think about it if you were wanting to start a prepping community where everyone brought something to the table in a mutual agreement where everyone involved would chip in and you'd all work together to survive through the coming economic collapse you need to ask yourself this question. What do I bring to the table?

In the emerging economy coming out of the collapse that is coming I think it will be hard skills that will help you sustain yourself. Can you build a security fence out of scrap lumber? Can you weld a tower together for a HAM radio operator who might not have the skills to build the tower and not have the money to buy a commercial tower?

Bob Maybe of Today's Survival Show did a show called Become a Jack of All Trades and Survive.I think he is dead on with that line of thinking. So the question comes up, how do you gain these skills?

Well there are many ways. You can take classes at your local community college to get some basic skills. I'm looking at a basic vehicle maintenance class and a small engine repair class offered. I'm also looking at some continuing education courses offered by some of the local high schools where I can learn a little bit of welding and carpentry. You can volunteer with Habitat for Humanity to learn some construction skills.  You can even do an unpaid apprenticeship for a couple months in your spare time with someone who knows what you want to know.  It can never hurt to ask.  Take any chance you get to expand your skills!

In Ontario Canada where I live some people took courses paid for by the government to gain new skills after being laid off. Well if you qualify why not look at the long term and maybe go to a private career college for welding or something like that where you can gain a valuable skill and not have to pay for it? I don't agree with our government supplying these courses for people and funding them going to school again especially since the program was aimed at people who lost jobs that made a very good living who if they were smart could have had a big emergency fund and stashes of cash to get them through plus money to take a course if they were smart with their overpaid union jobs. But the thing is the government was going to do it whether we all liked it or not so if you can qualify why not take advantage of what your tax dollars are paying for?
Get books on things like plumbing and electrical work. This way if you have to at least you can look up how to fix something. Resources and knowledge will be huge in the new economy that is emerging.
Take any chance you get to learn skills and gain valuable knowledge.

[What have you done to prep this week?]

Frazer

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