Are Your "Skill Sets" Worthy?

Anything the government would want I would not want to provide. I would play dumb so I wouldn't have to go.

That's hilarious! (And very true!)

I have all kinds of skills they would want once their system fails and they have to admit they can't survive without us red necks that know how to "get'r done".

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I might have two of those skills

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Woodworking, carpentry, mechanics, and some gunsmithing (but certainly not for the gov.)

Don't think the Govt., as currently configured, would want any of my skills, no matter the value. As it's currently configured, I'd have to profess ignorance.... and have to decline any offers.

In the 2nd scenario, I figure I could do whatever someone else in a group couldn't/wouldn't.... or I could bluff it good enough to get by.

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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

I once did the exercise in What Color is Your Parachute of writing down all my skills--I quit with a lined page covered in three columns front and back because I was bored. Problem is most of them aren't documentable--I don't have a degree or a certificate or anything, I just learned how to do something from someone who knew how.
I suspect most of you have more skills than I do--I'm still pretty young and have a lot to learn--but if you don't have the proper papers, does it count for the government's purposes?

West Virginia boy born and bred. I can shoot expert with rifle and pistol. I can track not expert but better than anyone I know personally. Have put up hay with nothing but pitchforks and a wagon. Raised cattle, hogs, rabbits, dogs, and cats. Know horses and can ride acceptably. Build fence, rough carpentry, simple blacksmithing. knowledge of electronics and electricity, emt and firefighting training. Studied survivalism for 35 years. I read a lot and remember what I read. I can make almost any tree fall where I want it to. Most importantly I don't panic and am one of those people where in a crisis time seems to slow down and allow me time to evaluate options and pick a response.

Government wouldn't want me though and I sure as h*** wouldn't willingly go with them.

Nope i am about totaly useless , they have experts for that stuff

i wouldn't expect them to want anything less than lead engineers

i realize that i am not important , i am ok with that. that doen't mean i don't have skills just that someone else wrote the book on most everything i do so why have a reader when you can have the author.

example why would they want a good canner when they can have the research cook that wrote or verified the info for the book of canning.

you might be one of the best auto mechanics around but why would they want you , when the enginneer that desinged the car for chevy is available.

yes you and i know that a good mechanic has figured out how to work around the engineers mistakes , and could provide lots of very good info on how to make thinsg easier to work on , longer lasteing but thats not what the engineers are worried about they need to save a dime on a hundred thousand units , not save a grease monkey 20 minutes and a smashed knuckle

How worthy anybody's skillset is will be determined by what happens. If some kind of collapse of society happens that doesn't kill off millions of people, then certain types of skills will be useful. If some sort of plague comes along(or a large meteor hits the Earth, or the Yellowstone caldera erupts, etc.) then other skills might be more important.
It's like playing cards, you get to choose what skills you learn(and master) now and hope they are the right ones for whatever happens.

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If I'm still walking around alive after such a disaster you can call me a walking miracle. Now, if I can sit still in my little house and ride out whatever it is then I might be able to cook some meals and feed a few people for a few months with what I've got on hand. Otherwise, I'm ant food. DH will be outside in the thick of it driving heavy equipment and working for the local government or what's left of it.

Nope! They definitely wouldn't want me! Thank goodness!

As far as scenario two goes, meh, I'd probably be worm food. I was "city raised" and raised my own boys the same way. Worked 50+ hours a week trying to do my best raising them on my own. Still wonder sometimes where I went wrong! lol

Just learned to can food about a year ago. Have yet to raise a successful garden (never home to do it). Don't have any 'experience' raising animals other than the family pet when I was a kid. Not a nurse or doctor, but can apply a bandaid and some ointment after a good cleaning. Not physically fit or very active (although that is changing since DH and I switched companies and now pull flatbed instead of dry van. Basically very minimal skills but some book knowledge, for what that's worth!

nope they don't want me.

But I dont want them.

SO it works out.

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"The only point to this life is to raise the children right."
~William K. Gilmore

"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
~Molly Ivins

Look today and the types of people the government finds "worthy" to control the various industries.

The agricultural experts writing government policy and regulations are rarely farmers. They are university trained experts, appointed by other "experts" who were also not farmers.

Same for the timber and mineral industries. Do you see many lumberjacks and miners being appointed to government watchdog groups?

And repeat again for the fishing industry. How many who regulate and analyze the fishing industry have done more than dabble a hook and line in the water as a pleasant hobby?

If the government pulled together a "survival group", you could count on it being populated by the "best" of university experts and professors in each of the necessary industries, and you could also count on them starving to death within 3 years. Unless, of course, they could find a non-government group to latch on to and "regulate" them out of a reasonable portion of their food.

That's dead on the money there...

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In a way, this "scenario" reminds me of the series Jerimiah. Where the "old" folks live in a bunker, maintaining their way of life and waiting for things to "settle down" out in the real world. Eventually they decide to "take over" again. I like the ending.

everyone "opting out" of the gov's plan failed to see that if they ask you....they know where you are. When they fail they will bring all of their resources to bear upon what you have and will take it by force. We are assuming that they will still remain semi-honorable. I'll bury any of them that even come askin', then pull up stakes and hide from them again. If it is the gov, they have access to stuff that we have no defense for, if they come knockin' shoot'em up and run to second fall back line. Plan at least three routes of escape to at least three different places. We're talkin the end of society here right. Shoot first, let God sort it out in the end!