So should I learn a skill that will be useful in the future

[TransitJohn]

like blacksmithing or candle making? Just trying to interject a little levity.

[medeak]

1. become a repo man n/t

[Scurrilous]

2. Pawnbroker. n/t

[Subdivisions]

3. You don't need a financial crash for that. Peak oil should have you

already doing just that.

[TransitJohn]

7. Actually I'm pretty set.

I'm a petroleum geologist, I think I'll have work for the remainder of my working life. :hi:

[Kutjara]

4. Whatever skill you learn, make sure...

...you can explain what you do in Chinese. Your employers/landlords/government will be impressed if you can communicate with them in their native language.

[TransitJohn]

8. Guess being a fanboy of Firefly

is going to be useful for once after all. Whodathunkit?

[demnan]

5. Plumbing

It got my Grandfather through the Depression. When you need a plumber you need one. Pays well too. Expect to take payment in barter, though, as no one will have any money.

[Virginia Dare]

6. I highly recommend bicycle repairman...n/t

[CoffeeCat]

9. Do you mind....

...buffing luxury yachts with a fine shammy?

...massaging the bunions of the rich and famous?

...straining Olympic-sized, in-ground pools for bugs with a saphire-encrusted skimmer?

...ironing Louis Vitton diapers for the upper escelon's precious babies?

...being a melamine taste tester for the uber rich's pet food and chocolate?

If not, you'll do just fine in the new economy.

[TransitJohn]

11. LOL

Thanks for the chuckle.

[Warpy]

10. I spin, knit, weave, sew and live in sheep country

so I should be all set, right?

Oh wait, not so fast, we have enough manufactured crap to barter back and forth for a couple of decades before it all wears out and people start to consider homemade stuff again.

Plumbers, bar and cheap restaurant owners, and fixit men should do well.

[DAGDA56]

12. Become a Barter Broker...seriously...

[remember2000forever]

13. Time To Start Our Victory Gardens?

[knitter4democracy]

14. Learning to raise your own food is good.

Gardening, small animals, stuff like that.

I think anyone with good butchering skills will be worth their weight in gold when everything ends. We knitters/crocheters will be set, but people who know how to dehydrate/freeze (as long as we can afford the electricity)/can food will be set.

[thereismore]

15. Fishing. nt

[TransitJohn]

16. I love fishing.

Mmmmmmmm...brook trout from beaver ponds.

[thereismore]

18. Yep.. now we're talking about survival of the fittest again. nt

[ProgressiveFool]

17. undertaking - death is a constant /nt

[TransitJohn]

19. Grim.

:scared:

[catnhatnh]

20. Go with the Basics....

Flint-napping could be HUGE!!!!!

[maveric]

21. Corrections officer.

The Industrial Prison Complex is growing.