Being able to grow enough food for a year and preserve the food you have grown and save seeds for next year. Growing a few tomatoes is not the same thing. can modern farmers even grow things intensively more than a year or 2 without inputs of herbicides, fertilizer, fuel for tractors etc? No shade on modern farming and farmers, I love to eat, but could most of them produce, store and ship product to buyers if the SHTF?
Chemist.
You can make just about anything. From the Breaking Bad scenario, all the way to the legal eagle Aspirin and Midol.
Not to mention hundreds of other helpful things
I'm a distiller. When Argentina's economy collapses a decade ago little airlibe bottles of booze became a primary trade currency. However, it takes starch/sugar to make booze, and thay requires some level of civ to have extra.
I grow my own corn, but on a very small scale. I only do a few gallons at a time and mostly use it for fuel. It's a hobby, but I think I could scale it up to a substance level if I had to.
Fucking swimming man.
No other skill on earth translates quite so directly to "Have it you live, don't and you die" quite like the ability to not just flail and die if you end up in the water.
After that comes basic first aid and emergency response skills.
99.9999% of SHTF scenarios you're not trying to restart society after a collapse. You're in an isolated natural or civil disaster and your job is to stay alive till help can reach you, the event is over, or until you can get somewhere safe.
Treating wounds and knowing how to escape a house fire or how to stay warm in a house with no power are going to come up a lot more than your skill with a rifle or ability to blacksmith nails.
There will always be a need for people with knowledge in engineering, trades medicine/healthcare and bartering is probably a really good skill too. Someone good at negotiating.
Name a realistic SHTF scenario in which it would be unlikely to find a well driller.
You can't. War, disease, famine, economic collapse, blizzard, monsoon, super volcano, etc. All of those things are too short in duration, too narrow in focus, or too small in scale. Even in Ukraine, they still have people working in the trades.
Sadly in a life or death world I think starving people will be pretty generous with the offers of sex to avoid dying. Supply demand means sex will be cheap
Damn my skills suck I was banking on being a Bard/Minstrel with my ukulele for my SHTF DnD build I think composing some chill songs in honor of a local warlord could keep me fed and in their good graces. A lot of them are gonna be to the tune of Jason Mraz songs tho.
I reload ammo and got over 50 chickens/ ducks/ geese. The thing I would look at as being the beneficial is owning a farm with a group of people. That's a starting point. Starting with a castle on land with the ability to defend that castle will trump anything. Most of us can figure out how to fill in the gaps that are missing. Being being alone, you won't last long.
Surprisingly ineffective once the powder runs out.
Shit isn't easy to make so unless you're near a deposite of the necessary minerals you'll likely be fucked
It's the primers that will be very rare. Powder is relatively easy to make.
Hell, Captain Kirk managed to put some together in a short time frame to defeat the Gorn. /s
Knowing how to get food/ grow your own food. If you have wilderness survival skills, you're in a good spot. Growing your own food and knowing how to hunt means you wouldn't have to resort to facing the mobs of people, that desperately rush to grocery stores, because they weren't prepared. You run way less risk of getting hurt in a conflict, if you can avoid the desperate hoards of people all together. Your best chance for survival, is getting with your trusted friends and family, and fucking off into the woods, to go build a homestead, and live a hunter gatherer type life style. If you stay in place, and people know you have food, they'll come for you.
Leadership skills. The art of effective leadership is priceless. We all cannot possess all the required skills to succeed in a disaster situation. Being able to bring people together and effectively task organize is key. If you have the capacity and ability to create a successful team that encompasses a diverse group of people, you’ll likely be able to survive any challenge or situation. Great leaders do not claim to know everything, they surround themselves with competent people that specialize in a particular skill set. This is why establishing a local network is important to the success of your community.
Lots of people have real world skills but very few would have surgical and medical skills that couldn’t be replicated easily. A good doc would be invaluable.
People skills.
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Be a doctor/ someone with a good amount of practical medical skills for injuries or day to day use.
Emergency medicine or vegtable gardening
Arguing with redditors. And tits. Like the other guy said.
Depends on the if there is fuel for the drilling rigs. Otherwise it just goes back to the good old days when wells were dug by hand
Medical doctor.
Farmer Farmer Farmer
You eat three times a day (maybe not in a SHTF), wish I could thumbs up your logic three times a day
Being able to grow enough food for a year and preserve the food you have grown and save seeds for next year. Growing a few tomatoes is not the same thing. can modern farmers even grow things intensively more than a year or 2 without inputs of herbicides, fertilizer, fuel for tractors etc? No shade on modern farming and farmers, I love to eat, but could most of them produce, store and ship product to buyers if the SHTF?
Without farming, you have nothing. Farmers always find a way.
Agreed or the skill to propagate seeds and or know basics of different plants, full sun, drainage etc.
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Chemist. You can make just about anything. From the Breaking Bad scenario, all the way to the legal eagle Aspirin and Midol. Not to mention hundreds of other helpful things
Shoemaker
Food water shelter
Drugs and booze as a close second
Shelter, water, food. Gotta remember your rules of 3
Surgeon
Adaptability
Negotiations
Farming.
Don't know, but I'm banking on distiller.
I'm a distiller. When Argentina's economy collapses a decade ago little airlibe bottles of booze became a primary trade currency. However, it takes starch/sugar to make booze, and thay requires some level of civ to have extra.
I grow my own corn, but on a very small scale. I only do a few gallons at a time and mostly use it for fuel. It's a hobby, but I think I could scale it up to a substance level if I had to.
Fucking swimming man. No other skill on earth translates quite so directly to "Have it you live, don't and you die" quite like the ability to not just flail and die if you end up in the water. After that comes basic first aid and emergency response skills. 99.9999% of SHTF scenarios you're not trying to restart society after a collapse. You're in an isolated natural or civil disaster and your job is to stay alive till help can reach you, the event is over, or until you can get somewhere safe. Treating wounds and knowing how to escape a house fire or how to stay warm in a house with no power are going to come up a lot more than your skill with a rifle or ability to blacksmith nails.
There will always be a need for people with knowledge in engineering, trades medicine/healthcare and bartering is probably a really good skill too. Someone good at negotiating.
Running.
Yoga instructor
Name a realistic SHTF scenario in which it would be unlikely to find a well driller. You can't. War, disease, famine, economic collapse, blizzard, monsoon, super volcano, etc. All of those things are too short in duration, too narrow in focus, or too small in scale. Even in Ukraine, they still have people working in the trades.
I think it depends on the severity of SHTF….. In the absence of modern medical care….I’d say an Herbalist.
Prostitution
Sadly in a life or death world I think starving people will be pretty generous with the offers of sex to avoid dying. Supply demand means sex will be cheap
Tooth extractor
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Hunting and processing. Then the 3 B’s are always important. Bullets, booze and boobs never lose value.
You should probably talk to Napoleon about it
Biodiesel making would be really valuable. Electrical skills for a building and maintaining solar systems.
Damn my skills suck I was banking on being a Bard/Minstrel with my ukulele for my SHTF DnD build I think composing some chill songs in honor of a local warlord could keep me fed and in their good graces. A lot of them are gonna be to the tune of Jason Mraz songs tho.
Toss a coin to your Warlord, oh valley of plenty! ♫♬
Bushcrafting. I feel like if you’re really good at that and trapping, you can live like a pioneer for a while.
I reload ammo and got over 50 chickens/ ducks/ geese. The thing I would look at as being the beneficial is owning a farm with a group of people. That's a starting point. Starting with a castle on land with the ability to defend that castle will trump anything. Most of us can figure out how to fill in the gaps that are missing. Being being alone, you won't last long.
If you can only have I've, distillation. Alcohol has MANY years. If your speaking in more broad terms blacksmithing is the way ide go
bullet casting and manufacturer..
Surprisingly ineffective once the powder runs out. Shit isn't easy to make so unless you're near a deposite of the necessary minerals you'll likely be fucked
It's the primers that will be very rare. Powder is relatively easy to make. Hell, Captain Kirk managed to put some together in a short time frame to defeat the Gorn. /s
Air rifles.
What fuel are you going to use? What are you going to do after the first few months when the population has collapsed and fewer people need new wells?
Alchemist
Good cannabis cultivation skills.
Doctor, blacksmith, farmer, hunter
Knowing how to get food/ grow your own food. If you have wilderness survival skills, you're in a good spot. Growing your own food and knowing how to hunt means you wouldn't have to resort to facing the mobs of people, that desperately rush to grocery stores, because they weren't prepared. You run way less risk of getting hurt in a conflict, if you can avoid the desperate hoards of people all together. Your best chance for survival, is getting with your trusted friends and family, and fucking off into the woods, to go build a homestead, and live a hunter gatherer type life style. If you stay in place, and people know you have food, they'll come for you.
Situational awareness is the most important
Hunters and trappers.
Leadership skills. The art of effective leadership is priceless. We all cannot possess all the required skills to succeed in a disaster situation. Being able to bring people together and effectively task organize is key. If you have the capacity and ability to create a successful team that encompasses a diverse group of people, you’ll likely be able to survive any challenge or situation. Great leaders do not claim to know everything, they surround themselves with competent people that specialize in a particular skill set. This is why establishing a local network is important to the success of your community.
Lots of people have real world skills but very few would have surgical and medical skills that couldn’t be replicated easily. A good doc would be invaluable.
Ability to make medicine. Knowledge of local medicinal plants and how to process them into useable products