Post-happening skills.

>>31491838
A SHTF thread that is not about gear or being tactical?
Well, I can build things ranging from a simple rabbit hutch to a cabin capable of housing 3-5 people. I also, have some decent farming skills have about 5 acres where I grow peppers, tomatoes, squash, and corn.

>>31491838
10 years working plumbing and electrical.
Pretty sure I'm MVP status for those skills alone since I can easily set up running water and sewage systems. Electrical is easy enough for most anybody to figure out though.

But yeah, I feel most people dramatically undervalue how much of a life improver it is to have a toilet that flushes and a sink that runs, and doesn't mix the two.

>>31491921
This. some reason people here think that it would go all Stalker and they would be all happy go lucky. Let me tell you the first time you take a shit and don't have any TP or go without a shower for a month they will likely be willing to suck your dick to get those things.

>>31491838
I'm a mechanic and a gardener, nuff said

I was a 64 pilot in the Army, learned plenty of other stuff. They could get rid of the guys on the wall, I'll take over.

Hobbyist potter, know how to find my own clay and pit fire stuff so I can make pieces without a proper kiln.
Though we're just one craft store scavenge raid away from getting me all the clay I would want and a proper kiln, because I doubt people would actually want to raid clay from a place under normal circumstances.

Training in glassblowing and blacksmithing. Can't do anything worthwhile with those yet but hopefully I'll get more training in before the happening happens.

Also dabbling in gunsmithing, which I'm better at than smithing or glass blowing, but still not an expert by any means, though I do have a lot of experience in reloading ammo.

I probably wouldn't want to leave my property though, because I have all my stuff back home for pottery and a small forge. And a garden, and I can turn my pool into a cistern. Don't have glassblowing stuff at home yet, I go to the ceramics shop for that. Working on putting in a good shop for woodworking and machining.

I want my grandfather to teach me knapping sometime too so I can make stone blades and arrowheads.

>>31491838
Was a marine engineer in the navy for 8 years, I am sure they can find me things to fix.

My knowledge and opinions on pop culture will entertain the group.

>>31491838
I'm a nurse. Let me in before the sepsis kills you all.

>>31491838
I'm a expert at microwaving hotpockets, top-of-the-list skill set.

I used to work as an automotive technician so I have a decent understanding of cars and how to fix them. Other than that I'm pretty useless

>>31491838
where do i start, i had a decent dad who taught me all kinds of shit.

>i can track/hunt/fish
>I know how to process what i kill(alot of hunter dont know how).
>I can cook just about anything
>i can cook for quite a few, i would need some real prep and help for 1000+ people
>i can forage
>i can be an electrician at times
>i can repair broken electronics
>i can know how to fabricate
>i can build a very nice cabin/shed
>I can do just about any sort of manual labor
>im a good shot
>i can do some gunsmithing(i hope most of /k/ can)
>I can farm
>I can make alcohol
>I know how to use just about any tool
>I decent wood worker
>I can work on older vehicle(lets be honest those are the only that will be servicable in SHTF).
>I also know how to make ice cream from scratch.

I can do a decent job at just about anything, I guess that one of the upsides to growing up poor.

>>31491838
Medic and college grad here. Let me look at your wounds and watch you die.

I've also got lots of experience fixing cars and jacking off, if any of that helps.

EMT / LEO. I'd probably make at least a passing combat medic

>combat medic inna rdf unit
I got you senpai.

I'm an advanced care paramedic currently studying for my critical care (Flight medic) in Canada. Pretty much a doctor at this point in my career with the life intervention skills I can confidently provide. I'm best at getting shit done with as little as possible. Also have my restricted fire arms licence.

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>>31492098
emt =/= anywhere near a combat medic
What are you gonna do anon? Carry O2 tanks around and tell old people how to take their nitro?
Being a LEO would be much more useful.

>>31492105
>>31492098
>>31492034
Implying any of us would be able to do anything life-sustaining for a serious injury one would be liable to get post SHTF. We're all pretty useless without the further knowledge of a doctor, and if you haven't realized that yet, you haven't been in the field long enough.

>>31492140
No shit sherlock. We're first responders, but regardless of that we have more knowledge than the average civvie. Ontop of that we can stabilize and help treat clinical bullshit. Better than having no knowledge/experiece of a situation regarding medical prowess.

Extensive woodworking/carpentry knowledge

Able to build and maintain complex tools (manual drill press, miter box, wood lathe, treadle loom, several types of kilns and crucibles, several styles of forges)

Basic small engine design/maintenance

Some commercial farming knowledge

Now I've never used the forges or kilns I've made so not claiming to be a potter or blacksmith, but 15 years making traditional tools for the Pennsylvania Shakers has taught me a lot about getting by without gas and electricity.

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I used to build furniture before i got a better gig as a mall cop. But somehow i doubt anybody will have use for a joinery specialist if SHTF.

if they don't need a few miters for the mirrors or a dovetail shelf, i'll just keep on with my bushcraft skills.


I bet they'd insist i keep my guns unloaded anyway.

going to start school for diesel mechanic soon

i'm good at fixing bikes too after we're out of fuel

>>31492131

Hence passing. It's not much but the average person knows less than nothing about even the most basic aspects of first aid, so being competent at basic wound treatment would automatically elevate you above 90% of most dipshits

> tfw going full medic is expensive and takes forever

Britfag here. The army taught me how to use guns which gives me a leg up on a large amount of the population.
I can't get hold of a gun
Bollocks!

>>31492140
> We're all pretty useless without the further knowledge of a doctor

You're absolutely right. Emergency medicine is great but it's mostly useless without the support of doctors and surgeons. Point being that it's not just about your own skill set, but the total skills and compatibility of a group

>>31491838
I can do system admin stuff?

>>31492040
Honestly that's probably one of the most valuable skills one could have. There are plenty of people who can't handle a flat tire or low wiper fluid now, imagine how much you'll be needed when car parts become a nonrenewable resource.

>>31491838
If it's a nuclear shtf situation, I'm a trained radiation worker.

Otherwise I was an eagle scout, at least.

>>31492170
>>31492315

My point exactly. While we can easily deal with bullshit baby medical stuff, the moment surgery or an invasive procedure comes up, we're useless. And since this is /k/'s SHTF fantasy, I'm expecting a lot of GSWs, whereupon, I will stand there and watch you die rather than waste supplies.

>>31492306
Luty was British, figure it out m8

>>31492355
Have you heard this story anon? Ranger medics are close to PA level medicine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yGOXV1k_r0

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I'm a subsea engineer. If there are any SHTF hydrates, I'll clear 'em

>>31491838
I'm a lab quality control technician!

I can pipette small amounts of liquids into small tubes really well!

I can look at cells under a microscope!

I'm probably dead!

>>31492355
At least pretend to do something

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>>31492318
Tech pubs guy here: I'll document whatever you come up with. Oral lore has no place in an IT organization. Gotta write that shit down.

Failing that, I'll load ammo and help OP make beer.

>>31492355
Well that's pretty dark. The whole point of the field medicine - hospital medicine relationship is that if the former is performed competently, then the latter can treat with a pretty high degree of success. Granted, you might be really low on supplies post-SHTF, but you'll also be looking out for a much smaller group of people to which you belong, not trying to save the whole damn population

>>31491838
I work at a large grocery store where I pretty much run and maintain a stock room (in fact on Tuesdays I'm pretty much the only guy there to do it all). So, I guess a warehouse jockey. Not very /k/. Anyone can do what I do with a couple of weeks worth of training. I'd probably die during the initial habbening anyway. Have fun guys.

>>31492233
>after we're out of fuel
>he can't farm and refine biofuel

>>31492429
You can keep track of the beer inventory. That's liable to be our primary national resource.

>>31491838
I was taught bush craft & survival skills by members of the SASR (Call bullshit all you want) , I can distil alcohol & reload ammunition.
I also clean water for a living.

I have also been shooting since I was 7 years old , spent 4 years in the Australian Army Infantry and I am a recreational hunter.

I can tend bees and make mead.

So basically, when the SHTF we're going to be a become a bunch of furniture makers, and brewers?

Do we just turn into Bavaria? Is wearing lederhosen mandatory?

>>31492478
Doesn't sound so bad , but don't forget us hunters , I can make us schnapps.

>>31492436
I can make fuel good enough to run diesel engines.

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I do nothing of interest or worth professionally.

I did have a chemistry set as a we baby though.

>>31491838

Army Military Intelligence taught me

>IPB
>basic recon
>cartography
>marksmanship
>convoy operations
>MOUT
>security, physical and otherwise
>CLS

Civvie jobs taught me

>driving vehicles on the large side, securing loads
>carpentry
>running a security site
>human resources
>pet care

Growing up farming/innawoods taught me

>crop farming
>any and all livestock farming
>herding
>hunting
>tracking
>horsemanship
>resource management
>basic logging
>operation of farm equipment
>butchering
>hunting dog training

I also speak fluent international Spanish and once killed a squirrel with a popsicle stick.

I'm an attorney. Anyone need a contract drafted?

>>31492478
>welcome to kommandoland
>the post collapse world capitol of guns, beer and comfy chairs

>>31492448
I've found my calling.

>>31492512
If i were running a settlement, i'd have people who are paid to lie and swindle shot.


But that might just be me, i personally just hate lawyers.

>>31491838
I'm a welder by trade and a hobby machinist when I have the time. I'm also looking to get into traditional black smithing, if I ever locate an anvil that's not a piece of shit. Not too many things I can't fabricate or repair, assuming its made out of steel, aluminum or stainless.

In the end, my usefulness will depend on the willingness/ability to allocate/create the resources/power needed to do what I do.

>>31492414
I'm still a student in my final year of my diploma so hopefully I can make it out there. Haven't dealt with actual machines mostly just VM's. Also another skill I have I guess is that I can hunt with a recurve bow?

Can anyone make shoes or toilet paper? I feel we'll need that

>>31492535
You sound like the type that has a real shot at running something someday.

>>31491838
former military multiple combat deployments

"i'm a scout reconaissance specialist, 19D, it's basically special forces. you NEED me on that wall"

>>31492555
>toilet paper
You got leaves, son. (unless you live in the pine belt, god help you)

Shoes are also just basic leatherwork and stitchery. unless you mean good shoes. you'd need a cobbler to make something comfy and lasting

>>31491838
I'm an emt, everyone will want me.

To be honest, all of my skills are based around electrical work and computer programming. Probably gonna have to suck dicks in SHTF

I'm attractive and I have a vagina

>>31492616
Invest in knee pads

>>31492680
>I'm attractive and I have a vagina
post feminine benis

>>31492680
Have fun being a warlords living fleshlight

>>31492704

It's the closest I'd cum to my /d/ fantasies

>>31492694
Don't have a benis, sorry

68w going to RASP at some point in time.

A Ranger medic is invaluable with all that SOCM experience

I do gardening, both traditional and hydroponic, and can build and mantain a greenhouse.

I can also make medicine from my plants, bugs, mold, fungus, etc. Nothing fancy, just a crude extraction and application of the same active ingredients phatmaceutical companies use. I would need lab equipment for that though, and I don't know the first thing about glass blowing or blacksmithing.

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>>31492779
>Don't have a benis, sorry
nugget bolt in pooper.

>>31492577
I'm in Alaska

>>31491838
I can weld a little, have some first aid and simple medical training and am not opposed to sucking dick.

>>31491838

>geologist
>cartographer
>speak multiple languages
>lay down some mean pipe
>4000 MMR Dota2

>>31491838
>I can masturbate up to 20 times in a day.

Is this skill useful?

>>31491838
I'm a cute trap and can suck dicks good. Teehee.

>>31491838
ITT delusional Robinson Crusoe fantasies. Without modern medicine, we cannot sustain current population densities, especially when the sewers and water purification infrastructure breaks down. With dwindling antibiotics, common wounds becomes grangenous. People will die due to the flu, cholera, typhoid and food poisoning. Any babies born will not have access to vaccines. Old diseases such as TB, rubella, polio, whooping cough even the bubonic plague will return with a vengeance. There will be no bucolic utopian tribal villages. 90% of unfit people will die. Looking at the /k/ gatherings pics, that means most of us.

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I can keep yo white women happy and full of BBC.
I do have herpasyphilaids, but you can only catch it once.

>>31492394
Idk about you, but I'm not prepared to do a thoracotomy as a medic. Also, having an ultrasound and freeze dried plasma is some no joke shit that we most likely wouldn't have. Even so, good on the flight crew.

>>31492424
I mean if it's someone is not completely fucked, then yeah I'll help. But say you've barely got any supplies, you're the only medically trained person in the group, and someone gets a sucking chest wound with shrapnel from the ribs plus God knows what else? You're not likely to have a readily supply of oxygen, much less a working ami bag, IV start kits, a chest tube, antibiotics, any of that. The person is gonna be dead no matter what I do to him with my limited scope of skills if he does not get immediate surgical intervention. Even if he does last more than a day, how would you be expected to feasibly care for them? In that case, I would only be able to make him comfortable. I feel like the largest constraint to any of this is supplies. If that wasn't an issue then I can play pretend doctor all day and care for people beyond being a first responder. I've seen plenty of surgeries and procedures from shadowing that I could probably do something right... maybe.

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>>31491838
I have over 300 confirmed kills.

>>31491838

Nothing that would get me in. But if I was in one I could easily pull my weight.

Plus I'm more of a Libertarian. If I want in, I'll help out regardless of what you want until someone let's me in.

>>31492355
Nurse from earlier. Currently in school to be a PA, worked in surgery for 5 years before that. If you take a bullet, I can yank it back outta you.

>>31493073
>he does it for free

>>31493030
nofunallowed.jpeg

worked assisting my dad as a carpenter plus general electrical knowledge, also I know how to cook meat using fire/embers

>>31493030

Except youre wrong.

Small countries with centuries of development wouldnt get hit so hard.

Especially when beneficial geography keeps diseases and endemic warfare away.

>>31492680
Sounds like you're going to be just fine.

>>31492027
Underrated post

>>31492051
Are you me?

>>31492989
*BAM*

No dead weight in the /k/olony.

>>31493144
>kill everyone's favorite trap
>expect not to become the new trap

>>31491998
>I was a 64 pilot in the Army, learned plenty of other stuff. They could get rid of the guys on the wall, I'll take over.

The SHTF. I'm sure there's plenty of JP8 and Apache maintenance kits just lying around. They're so common you could loot them off dead enemies.

>>31493144
Sounds like you're fixing to enact a coup. Most of /k/ are rights and freedoms fags

>>31493166
It doesn't have to be useful. It just has to convince them to let you in

>>31493086
How hard is PA school? Is Biochem a good degree to go to PA school with?

>>31493144
I think somebody's looking for a few extra days in the barrel.

>>31493166
Do you realize how many training areas, national guard armories and active duty posts there are CONUS? You just need to find one working aircraft, the fuel trucks full of jp8 are even more easily accessible, not to mention army aircraft don't exclusively run on jp8

>>31493220
Not them, but hardest part is getting in. Lots of competition nowadays since most people get turned away from MD/DO schools and choose PA as an alternative. Programs are usually only 2 years, where you learn almost all of the same foundation bullshit you do in medical school.

Feasible, but not easy. Undergrad degree is mostly irrelevant so long as you meet the pre-reqs and have medical experiences.

>>31493166
>i can't do what you can so ill make a pathetic excuse as to why yer no gud

>>31493365
10-4.

I wanna be a Trauma PA, working in the emergency room. How do I go about this once I complete PA school?

>>31491838

Welcome to your life as a kitchen slave anon.

>>31492051
>dad didn't teach me shit
>didn't learn shit
>can't teach kids shit
>literally only good at shooting, writing, and public speaking

Guess I just won't breed and kill myself if it ever goes down

>>31491998

Yeah I'm sure your bare bones basic infantry skills are up to snuff sir.

It's really to risky to approach a large armed group. Too risky they are degenerates and or slavers.

>>31493455
Hey guys, are you degenerates? I'm from 4chan! That makes me like, the king of the degenerates! Let me in, I'll suck your feminine dick!

1. Wood:
Know what trees to cut for what. (dry firewood, uses of different trees, trees good for beams etc.) If you settle in, manage your wood. (girdle trees to die/dry, scope out trees for future projects, deal with hazardous trees). Know how to make things out of wood. Buildings, roofs, fences, weaving, traps. With some weaving skills you can make baskets to help forage and storage, fish traps, clothes, wood. For a good example of traps check out that documentary of those russian fucks on lake baikal(the edited version is called Happy People). That old russian fuck makes about 100 traps a day with a few cuts with a hatchet like hes a fuckin sushi chef. They actually do a lot of cool wood utilization in that show. You can take wood a bit further with some more advanced carpentry skills. Wood is your #1 resource aside from food
1a. get some good tools for wood, dont skimp on it. a good axe, saw, wedges.

2. Earth: Its all the fuck around you. Clay, adobe, terracotta. This can give you walls, insulation, traps, defenses, sealed containers, stoves, storage. Have a good digging tool. Also rocks are great for building, cooking, traps, and sling ammo

3. Forage: The short of it is there is a lot you can eat and a lot that will kill the fuck out of you. Your best bet is to learn what your area has to offer. Not just how to identify a couple plants but there is a lot that can be done with ALL the flora in your area beyond just picking and eating. Some areas will have things you can live off of but some forage situations are just a nutritional supplement. Also know what medicines can be derived from your local plants.

4. Hunt: Pretty obvious. Know how to hunt, strip, skin, preserve, cook, tan. Use the whole animal. Know how to catch and clean a fish.

5. Fire: have firemaking tools, know how to tend and manage fire, but be ready to bust out that bow drill when you run out of flint and matches. Know how to gather tinder. Know what wood is burns best.

6. dont be a pussy

>>31493483
6. dont be a pussy. its ok to starve a little bit, get a little cold. many people get up and die. when things go wrong its not good but with perseverance you may recover, or at least youll die on your feet.

i didnt give any specifics but thats what i think the main skills are for innawoods

non innawood skills coming next

>>31493427
Is that some butthurt I detect joe?

I have a mostly comprehensive understanding of the local edible flora. I can make a tea that will keep scurvy away thanks to the vitamin C, and I live in IN.

I know how to build a forge, and have an academic understanding of metallurgy in that respect.

I have an idea to raise squirrels in captivity for food.

I can build a steady fire with firesteel and a bit of alcohol.

Im definitely not autistic why would you even ask

>>31492555
>>31492577
>leaves
Enjoy chapped asshole. Do what the Romans did: have a sponge tied to a short pole to wipe your ass, which you would then wash after use.

>>31493528

I ain't no army dog

I'm a business lawyer who's had legislative and public policy experience. I know plenty of law, economics, business, politics, practical science, and history.

If the happening is bad enough I may not have many skills to barter, but I'm wealthy and should have goods to barter and people I'm with. I'm also very handy and can usually tinker a solution to most home improvement/ gardening type problems.

shtf innacity survival

1. stealth. stay out of sight but dont get caught sneaking around. keep a low profile.

2. trust nobody. shoot them before they finish telling you their sob story that their sick daughter needs your MREs and a bunch of dudes pop out of the bushes and eat you. never underestimate ANY persons ruthlessness.

3. fuck everyone. if you want to survive you are gonna have to forget about your morals. kill or be killed. steal the food right from the mouth of a baby. eat the baby.

4. hide your power level. if people know you have ANYTHING its your ass.

5. stay clean. disease is going to be prevalent. healthcare is gone. hygiene products are gonna be just as important as your bolt cutters. but after you get cleaned up, rub some dirt and ballsweat in your face in accordance with rule 1 and 4.

6 . grab sks go innawoods

i didnt finish reading OPs post asking about specific skills to make yourself valuable to society, but these are just my thoughts on the real skills needed to survive.

As far as OPs question, I'm definitely letting you in if you are good at making beer. Any unique skill that someone else might not have is going to be better. Who knows, they could have 10 doctors in there already and not enough food to go around. But if you can raise bees for honey and mead you might get it. Welding could be good, but theres a lot of welders, in that situation you need to be an expert in your skill so you are worth more.

Too much reinvent civilization here. Primative skills have some use. More useful is looting, stealing and raiding.

>>31493427
Not what I was referring to, more so SERE, CBRN, commo, Anti terrorism level II, and a couple other useful ones.

>>31493597
Do enlighten us then bud

>>31493664

My power level as an 11B is superior to any pilot.

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>landscaping, gardening, and farmwork

Did work in these fields (puns) for awhile.

>experience with woodworking/carpentry since childhood

I've never built any structures, but I've built furniture for my family before.

>quite a bit of fishing since I was a kid

I'm pretty good at casting or shooting a line into the water and coming out with a fish. There's technique, but luck is obviously a factor too. I can scale/bone and cook them over a fuego as well, of course.

>former muhreen arty fag

Tacticool, I know. Even if there's not a Howitzer at the settlement, I'm an excellent janitor and am confident and comfortable with all standard US issue small arms/other gear. No combat experience or high speed schools, just field ops and ships.

>stamina

I like to run for long distances. I can also carry heavies pretty well.

>painfully mediocre at guitar

I could be the camp bard if everyone's down for some acoustic Black Flag by the fire.

i know how to handle 100+ chickens

thats bout it do

>>31492922
>lay down some mean pipe
Is this a euphemism

>>31493683
And my AH-64E is superior to any 11B, mounted or unmounted.

>>31493581
What if you need more then one wipe?

>>31493713
Can you play anything from Bad Religion? If so, you're fucking in.

>>31493758

I agree. Without a maintence team, fuel and spare parts how long will you be able to keep flying?

>>31493770
Then clean the sponge off and wipe your ass again. What the hell do you think you would do with a community ass-whiping sponge?

>>31493470
>hey boss, there's some asshole in an anime shirt and flip flops yelling outside the wall
>what's he want?
>something about... feminine.. dicks?

>>31491838
>What skills are Anon's meal ticket in?
Absolutely fucking nothing unless they need forklift operators or if they have a railroad.

>>31493794
I can do my own maintenance and teach others, fuel is easy to acquire. Spare parts less so, but doable if you know where to look. Besides, I can fly other airframes too.

>>31493086
My GF is a NP, she was in the OR every day for 8 years. They don't let her stick her hands inside people too often but I'm pretty sure if SHTF happened she could deal with any trauma, amputations, minor surgeries, and diagnose and treat almost any disease to some extent.

>>31493562
>I can build a steady fire with firesteel and a bit of alcohol.
I can make a pizza with a phone and $20

>>31492315
>Emergency medicine is great but it's mostly useless without the support of doctors and surgeons.
>implying you won't have ample time and occasions to practice literal operating

its not like you're gonna be arrested for practicing medicine without a license.

>>31493143
probably not

>>31493411
you can still learn shit.

>world goes to shit
>libraries become useful again

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>>31493774

Only a couple of songs (Infected/21st Century Digital Boy). Other punk. NOFX, Sick of it All, shit like that. I'm not good at the whole "complex music" or "being talented" thing.

>>31491838
i will walk up to that gate, turn around, and happily walk away with the lolita in flip flops that i have captured

>>31493908
>Implying hard books aren't better than digital ones
The only good thing about ebooks is the storage and cntrl f

>>31491838
> post-happening skills
skill for after you are dead

>>31493966

and you know, they're backlit, are easier to hold, easier to store and you don't have to fuck around with bookmarks or dog-earing.

imo the best part of ebooks is that you can just select a word you aren't familiar with and it immediately pulls up the dictionary

>>31494091
That shit hurts my eyes after reading for too long. There's something much more comfy about holding a book, being able to look at the cover art, turning the pages, etc.

>>31492507
>once killed a squirrel with a popsicles stick
Story pls

>>31492503
we can be friends

Musician/songwriter/actor so I could be your local bard. Also have a pretty good understanding of basic construction and mechanic type stuff so I could help the automotive and carpenter fags in here

>>31493826
>jet fuel
>easy to acquire post habbening
No.

>>31493849
My gf is a vet tech, so she could help raise >>31493562

i clean wastewater, can i sleep with your daughter

I'm a horticulturalist. I feel like I'm pretty set.

my wc lvl is 83 and i can mine rune

>>31494341
You're right, it's not like there's at least a dozen airports within a 15 mile radius of you or anything

>>31494341
>i dont know what im talking about but i know im right

Work construction for 10 years (you name it I can build it) and pretty good at fixing shit in a pinch. Also cooked a number of years

>>31494440
>>31494467
>a dozen airports
There's one in the entire city. And you would need a LOT of the stuff to fill even a cessna. My ex is a private pilot, so i heard a lot about flight plans and similar

And where would you even fly, and why?

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I'm a motorcycle mechanic who grew up working on cars. I can rip out all the computer shit that stops working after shtf and make a car run better then average. I have build houses. I have lived in the forest for a month with nothing but what I could carry and I have been fishing since I was 5. Fuck your wall full of people I would have to take care of. I'm building a boat and taking a vacation.

>>31491838
I'm an embalmer
I'll make a fortune

>>31494520
There's probably one regional, but tons of class E and private airports. Look at a VFR sectional my man, flight plans don't mean dick.

>>31494253

>12
>abusive/turbulent upbringing
>big hunter
>back then I really loved to kill
>and to know why stuff dies
>come up with creative killing tools
>snap-shoot at a squirrel one day
>break limb squirrel was on
>it falls almost next to me, somewhat injured, a pellet or five got it
>run it down and put foot on it stab it with sharpened popsicle stick

I killed all kinds of stuff with all kinds of stuff. I called myself saving ammunition.

Feels bad, looking back.

>>31494520
>my ex is a private pilot so i know
fucking KEK. They'll give a private license to fucking anyone. And where would you fly? I dunno, somewhere away from the shit in a SHTF situation. Because flying would be the safest possible method of travel.

I can shoot better than any of those fuckers on the wall with a gun.

and some college

>>31493606
I'm sorry, we shoot anyone with that skill set, on principle.

>>31494627
Calm down Chris Kyle.

>>31491838
I am certified in radio, electronic repair, and currently do IT work. If you want to keep an electronic device in the wasteland, I can make that happen. I have, for personal use and for other reasons, made weatherproof solar power supplies and have made toughbooks from pelican boxes and foam. In my spare time I have been known to work on various vehicles and garden. With flour I can make a lot of shit, with some other elements I can make a lot of shit that tastes good. I am aware of edible plants in my general region and several that grow nation wide. I can play the harmonica. While I lack a CDL, I can proficiently drive a large vehicle(IE war rig). I can make homebrew napalm. I can sew. I have contacts with three other people with near the same qualifications. I speak spanish if we start working with some hombres from the south

>>31491936
I've done both of those and it wasn't bad at all.

People complain about weird things.

I'm really good at lying and dedicating to a lie

>>31494681
I don't believe you. check mate bitch.

>>31492114
I am attempting to take a primary paramedicine course next fall. Any tips? I live in Atlantic Canada BTW if that helps

>>31494701
By not believing that statement youve fallen for the underlying ruse of the lie within a lie, just as planned.

>generator mechanic for 4 years
>journeyman electrician for 5 years
>online electrical engineering degree
>3 years as a commissioning engineer at some of the largest natural gas power plants on the planet
Idk I guess I can make some mean ass mac n cheese.

>>31493483
>1. Wood:
>Know what trees to cut for what. (dry firewood, uses of different trees, trees good for beams etc.) If you settle in, manage your wood. (girdle trees to die/dry, scope out trees for future projects, deal with hazardous trees). Know how to make things out of wood. Buildings, roofs, fences, weaving, traps. With some weaving skills you can make baskets to help forage and storage, fish traps, clothes, wood. For a good example of traps check out that documentary of those russian fucks on lake baikal(the edited version is called Happy People). That old russian fuck makes about 100 traps a day with a few cuts with a hatchet like hes a fuckin sushi chef. They actually do a lot of cool wood utilization in that show. You can take wood a bit further with some more advanced carpentry skills. Wood is your #1 resource aside from food
>1a. get some good tools for wood, dont skimp on it. a good axe, saw, wedges.
>2. Earth: Its all the fuck around you. Clay, adobe, terracotta. This can give you walls, insulation, traps, defenses, sealed containers, stoves, storage. Have a good digging tool. Also rocks are great for building, cooking, traps, and sling ammo
Where did you learn this and where would you suggest a guy also learn this?

I am literally Joel from TLoU including daughteru so can I come in

>>31494833
How did you get an engineering degree online and how hard was it getting a job with your online degree?

>>31492542
Machinist and amateur welder here, I guess we could snag a generator and become arms dealers. I'm assuming sub guns and the lot would sell well enough

>>31491838
I'm the last person you'll ever see, kiddo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dKwHOfd2dk

>>31495092

He's funny to look at, but I'd pay him to sharpen a blade.

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>>31495123
>not hiring him as your personal bodyguard
You'll never know when you need a katana unsheated

>>31495092

>that pose at about thirty seconds in

Is this real life?

>>31491838
I live on a farm so im pretty good at nigger rigging. I also have alot of knowledge on growing crops and gardening.
I also have 5 years experience in framing houses and am decent at welding.
I also have extensive knowledge about explosives and simple firearms such as open bolt submachine guns and am good at metal manufacturing. I have built my own forge and foundry and use them often.
And i am a helluva good shot, as a result of growing up with access to lots of land.

>>31492779
wew, and women think they are equal to men.

>>31491838
Farmhand here. I repair,maintain and operate most of the equipment used on any farm. By necessity I'm also a halfway decent mechanic, plumber,electrician and builder. All of these things cost money, and it's cheaper to do it yourself. Where I shine though is animal care, particularly cows. Breeding,overall health, raising calves and proper feed rationing. I also have training as a firefighter in addition to past experience in construction as well as skills aquired from a troubled childhood.

>>31494857
Literally youtube. YouTube is the best way to learn new things

>>31495329
We have much in common

>>31495334
Any good channels on that? Much prefer to read but I can try watching stuff, it's just so much faster to learn via text than someone blathering on.

>>31495407
Codys Lab is a good one. We should start a thread about /k/ and SHTF related youtube channels

>>31495349
>>31495329
me too

I've never been on a farm per se but I read a book once about the noises animals make and that's pretty much the same thing for shtf

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I can brew and weld; poorly.

Own some tools, and I can build things, poorly.

Pic related.

>>31495407
Made a thread for youtube channels

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>>31495528

>>31491838
I build fun things for fun, SHTF is when I thrive. Seeing a community who might need to be taught these skills would make my heart soar.

Then when I'm done I move on to the next.

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Accountant here.
Guess I'm fucked.
>tfw no skills outside of preparing financial statements
>tfw will be first to be put up against the wall

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My biggest talent is shitposting.

>>31495824
You could help the beer inventory guy.

>>31495562
Well, that's a start. The majority of it comes down to experience. Should the habbening happens and you're in northern Michigan... I might choose to take you under my wing instead of leaving you to the normies.

>>31495349
We do. I thought you were me up until the metal working part.

Pretty much fucking nothing. I mean I've loaded and shot firearms before but I'm 'murican so that doesn't really mean shit.

Registered nurse and I have a welding certificate. I also grew up on a farm and have a bit of a green thumb.

Honestly most of the SHTF plans I see fall to shit in my eyes because everybody is focused on all the totally awesome gun fights they're gonna be in and what kind of sunglasses look coolest while operating.

This is a great thread and one /k/ needs more of. So many more important things for SHTF than guns and combat.

>>31494857
Yeah just youtube and reading. Even better find out what trees are in your area and then learn about them. General rule is oak > pine for burning but some pines are so resinous or dense they burn well, others will burn low heat and like shit. I'll give you some other somewhat nonspecific examples.
Birch can be burned down in a funnel and the oil collected then mixed with ash for bug protection. Birch also can grow a fungus that is bad ass for tinder and firestarting. Some other trees oil can be harvested as a fuel oil.

If you find a nice stand of hardwood in spring, just give it a good gouge or strip a ring of bark, come back before winter and its dead and dry.

If you find a bunch of nice long thin spruce or poplar, harvest or make note of it for future projects. These usually grow in a diameter great for beams or supports and are also tall and straight if you wanna make something long or tall.

Learning some basic joinery will help you make some stronger shit rather than just lashing it or relying on Ys.

Heres that part of that documentary of the guy flicking his axe around making traps. Thats also the kind of axe I use, kinda medium size but sharp as shit, good for big and small shit. I don't trap because its a pain in the ass but I try to practice making a few traps every now and then.

https://youtu.be/fbhPIK-oBvA?t=16m35s

Adobe is some good shit. It is sand, clay, dirt, straw, and water. Make it into bricks and build shit and stack it then cover in mud. Theres adobe structures that have been standing for 1000s of years. The main problem with it is fall damage, it will be fucked if something falls or hits it. Its a good insulator though. A good long term dwelling would have a very strong wooden frame, stone about halfway up, then finish with adobe, then a layer of mud. Dirt dwellings usually need to have a new layer of dirt added a few times a year and the floor needs to be constantly packed down and maintained to an extent.

>>31496147
Clay, ceramics, terracotta, etc is some good shit. Where I live there is a lot of red clay in the soil along with big swathes deeper down that have a higher red clay content and there will be veins/chunks of your typical clay. One advantage of clay is when building shit out of mud/dirt it is stickier and obviously dries better. It can be fired at a lower heat into terra cotta, aka earthenware. Terracotta is porous but can be used for lots of shit. One thing I like a high clay content soil is if you build something like a stove, furnace, oven, fireplace, smoker, it will fire itself and become pretty sturdy. If you build a simple kiln with a blower of some sort you can start firing real clay into some good ceramic shit, jars and other storage devices, durable eating and cooking dishes, etc.

I have a katana. If you want in somewhere just point me to a person and I'll teleport behind him

If you want him alive I won't unsheath it

Charcoal is another resource you can produce for yourself. You can use it to condense your fuel shortages or to get hire temps for firing. While digging or exploring you might come across some malachite which is pretty easy to fire into some copper. Make some ceramic molds and youve got some metal nails or projectiles, arrowheads. Find something with zinc in it and youre in the motherfuckin bronze age.

I also recommended a sling. Learn how to use it and you have infinite ammo for small game. You can get pretty fuckin accurate especially if you are practicing out in the woods starving to death.

People talk shit on being unga bunga and its not for everyone but if you can survive in the woods and get settled in you can start making a pretty sweet life for yourself.

Oh yeah also motherfucking SKINS. When SHTF happens I can wait to get all comfy in some motherfucking skins. When you kill an animal you can use its own fucking brain to tan the skins. Although the term tan comes from tannins. Whats laying all over the forest floor? A C O R N S. Scoop those dumb little fuckers up and boil off the tannins. Save the water and further boil it down to get rid of the water oh look you got some motherfuckin tannins. But wait theres more, take them acorns and dry them bitches up, groundem down, you got some motherfuckin flour for some acorn bread, throw that shit in your lil oven and you are ready to FUCK.

God I cant wait until the happening so I can go play with mud, cut down trees, and wear animal skins.

>>31491838
Honestly? My skills, my education, my knowledge are only useful in a post-industrial society.

Once the happening happens, once shit hits the fan... it will all be dust. People like me will fall, while the simple will survive. Like rats. They have enough brains to maintain their existence, but that is their intellectual ceiling. Survival. Nothing more, nothing less.

>>31491838
None because I wouldn't approach other people in SHTF and would shoot anyone I see on site. Hopefully that won't occur because I'll be in my comfy hideout in the mountains hunting and gathering and playing vidya at night via my solar-powered generator that stores energy gathered in the day.

>>31492429
Logistics student, can help this dude keep track of supplies

>>31496274
to be honest, scavenging will be big.junk metal arrowheads

>>31491838
I visited India once.

>>31493794
You start simplifying the airframes and powerplants until you reach a reproduceable and supportable equilibrium.

Look at the planes that fought in WW1. Wooden frame, fabric skin, stupid simple 2 stroke engine. Post shtf, if you can put anything into the air on a reliable basis, you have the high ground wherever you go.

>>31491838
I make soap. I can also make lye.

>>31492215
Not needing mall cops in SHTF

>>31497098

and where exactly are you going to find all the fuel for that plane to run? and how about landing and taking off? Where's all the infrastructure you need for that?

>>31494520
>My ex is a private pilot, so i heard a lot about flight plans and similar
This is the equivalent of me saying "I watched a doctor to open heart surgery so now I'm pretty much a doctor as well.
Give it up kid, you're talking out your ass

>>31496147
>youtube and reading
There's something to be said about experience and I think it's showing with your first point. Dry pine is dangerous to burn if you don't know what you're doing, it burns very hot and very fast and I've had a chimney fire because somebody else loaded the firebox and I woke up to the sound of a steam locomotive in my fucking house.

>If you find a nice stand of hardwood in spring, just give it a good gouge or strip a ring of bark, come back before winter and its dead and dry.
Or you can not be retarded and cut down the tree when it's green and then stack the wood so it can season. Your method is a fine way to make widowmakers, which are named as such for a reason. If you're looking for logs this is absolutely not the way to go, you're just going to get a dead tree that can crack and twist when it's dying so you'll have to cut it down green anyway and then season it properly.

I don't disagree with anything else you said but this is something I'm intimately familiar with.

I can repair electronics and that's pretty much it.

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>>31494411

Highly underrated post.

>>31491838
I have a civil engineering degree and experience in agriculture and cultivation.

so i can either build shit or grow shit while the gun people do their thing. plant-based wet wipes here we come

>>31497762
so youre a walking wasted life when the packs of feral blacks catch up to you. your shoes and personal belongings are far more important than anything you could do for them to help rebuild society

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>>31497824
>packs of feral blacks
>rebuild society

>>31497658

>filename has tumblr in it
I am so fucking sorry. I found this on google images, I swear.

I'm a ham radio guy, got an HF radio and a few lolBaofengs.
CB /k/ prepper frequency when

>>31496263
Here is your (you)

>>31493853
Fucking kek

>>31493562
100% autistic & dead

>>31497259
Are you serious
fuel will be scarce but available.
A flat meadow or hard floored desert is fine. Golf courses could make excellent improvised airports

>don't hit the bunker

>>31497857
you don't know shit about golf courses.

>>31491838


Fuck you guy, I'm going to make my own settlement. And it'll have Blackjack & hookers.

I shall call it: Lost Vegas

>>31495824
Hey man, we need an accredited accountant.

Bean counting and audits are always helpful.

You keep our little world more sane because of it.


>(I have accounting friends, they're cool people)

>>31497487
I always thought killing trees like that was done for weight and easiness. Just a couple chops and you can carry on with your hunting and come back before winter when you need wood. I guess you could chop it down right there and leave it but wouldn't that lend itself to rot?

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>>31491838
I'm not qualified to clean a toilet, let's just say that much.
Everything is above my pay-grade.

>>31491838
I fix computers, shoot well, and emotionally manipulate women. Where does that land me?

>>31497984
In a ditch.

>>31497937
Well yeah if you leave it there, but if you're harvesting a tree for the purposes of firewood or for building materials you'll need to either quarter it up and split it (which is ideal for drying) or to season it in a controlled environment which usually means debarking. This scenario we're talking about is a sustained community, if timber-framed buildings are the mode of construction (and they are quite easy) then it's reasonable to assume that a specialized structure would be built to produce usable timber.

>Amateur mma fighter
>USAF comms nerd
>used to work construction before I joined
>have wife

The wife will cook and clean and is a good person I vouch not dead weight not a bitch (also likes k and thinks you guys are funny) sorry but she's part of the deal. Also the working in construction means I can do any odd jobs needed plumbing framing electrical not expertly but competently. As for the mma I can teach the basics of wrestling jiu jitsu muay Thai boxing and sambo not key but still important giving you an edge in combat and it's entertainment and fitness. Lastly and most boring/important is the comms given the electricity and the scavenged parts I can get a small intranet up and running phones email data storage and the more books you get me I might be able to get more shit up.

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>>31492680
>she thinks her pussy will get her closer to my hoarded supplies
>implying that I won't form a colony where only big beefy manly kommandos and qt3.14 traps are allowed

your reign of social manipulation ends once society falls and the government can't enforce your child support thievery, roastie. prepare to enter a new age of male supremacy.

>>31492003
Can you build tiles like this guy?
http://youtu.be/P73REgj-3UE

>>31492968
a cumshot is on average 5 kcal and contains 200% of your daily reccomended copper and magnesium, which helps manage nerve damage and muscle twitching.

you could help 20 snipers steady their muscles a day.

>>31493073
>"im more of a libertarian"
> says he'll work and "help" your voluntary, privately owned survival community whether you authorize him to or not
>says he'll help out until you're forced to let him in officially

Unless you're leaving boxes of supplies at our front gates for free (cuck!), that sounds an awful lot like you feel entitled to our community and its resources, and are planning on violating the N.A.P. to get what you want. Rev up that helicopter, Pinochet!

>>31498054
>Forgot to mention I also failed out of EOD school halfway so I can do very basic rigging of charges and knee basic explosive safety the kind they drill into newbies

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>>31492989
consider yourself a guaranteed member of my voluntary survival militia, but only if you promise to call me onii-chan.

>>31491838
>I still know how to feed 1000+ heads per day.
no you don't you just know how to yell at people who ACTUALLY know how to cook.

>>31493612

>trust nobody. shoot them before they finish telling you their sob story that their sick daughter needs your MREs and a bunch of dudes pop out of the bushes and eat you.

It's like you want someone to ventilate you on principle.

>>31498159
if you plan to stick around in the city plan to die because these people will turn into fucking animals.

EAT

THE

BABY

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>>31491838

I am a qualified master tailor.

I can custom make any item of clothing.... this includes everything from bespoke dinner suits through to leather and industrial synthetics.

I even do women's clothing.

>>31496497
"hburr durr im a fucking artist/web developer/womens studies graduate and the filthy proles are all unintellectual brutes but they'd survive and not me, what a shame" Shut the fuck up you pretentious cunt. You're just pissed you have a worthless degree and no real skills.

Engineers, scientists in practical hard science fields (not sniveling, useless "social science" fucks), and hacker types will all be on top once shit starts hitting the fan. They're rich and have practical skills paired with normal fitness. Sure, Tyrone and Methhead Bill might bench 50lbs more than them, but that won't give them an edge against an engineer who's well fed thanks to his DIY hydroponics, in a functional vehicle because he's intelligent enough to know how to fix it despite not being a mechanic, and is armed because his well paying job pre-collapse made stockpiling an arsenal affordable. Ever read When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth? its a short story, won't take too much time out of your starbucks-drinking cuck schedule to read it.

People who are actually fucking intelligent are able to adapt their knowledge and abilities to new situations.

That aside, people like farmers, mechanics, trade workers, industrial workers, and soldiers can be incredibly fucking smart and educated.

u guys think too much. You don't need to be a specialist for everything. If ur able bodied and have a good ans sweet work ethic u can join whatever settlement u want <3 xx

>>31498288
You sound upset. Insecure about something? And you didn't get the reference. A shame. Well, I don't expect anyone here to get it, but there's always a chance.

Anyways, there's a large number of academics in proper hard science fields - theoretical physics for example - who aren't good with anything practical. They certainly would have no place in these SHTF scenarios. Not to mention all R&D would stop, high tech manufacturing would be lost, and so on. This really is the core of these scenarios: Survival, nothing more, nothing less. Advancement will stop for generations. The simple will survive.

>>31498288
>Ever read When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth? its a short story, won't take too much time out of your starbucks-drinking cuck schedule to read it.
Not him but I just went and read it. What a waste of time, that was garbage.

>>31494531
I said I was taught bush craft and survival by the SASR , I don't see how I'd "need" to be taken care of.

>>31495155
That is not a Katana , looks like either a Tachi or Ōdachi , the Katana was a sword with a curved blade longer than 60 cm (there is no upper length limit but generally they are shorter than 80 cm),

>>31498829
You weeb is showing

>>31491838
>The only problem is they have more men with guns on the wall than people with primitive skills to make a small village worth living in. What skills are Anon's meal ticket in?
I'm a dude with a gun. That's all I need. If we're effectively reaffirming city-states, you should never turn away a fighting man. Otherwise, you'll suddenly find yourself facing down those you turned away when they're fighting for someone else, potentially in greater numbers.

Emerg doc, with military experience, who hunts and enjoys repairing electronics.
Checkmate, faggots.

But I won't be asking to join a colony. I own an 80-acre plot, that ~40 close friends and family are to head for in case of emergency.

>>31492051
>can know how
Anyone can know how to do anything,
and anyone can work on older vehicles they're dumbass simple.

I know basic first aid. I can cook from the simplest meals with beef and salt to more refine meals if they have the ingredients and the kitchen ware. Im pretty big build. 6 feet, broad shoulders, strong legs. I know how to kickbox. Im good with tools and currently working as a handyman. Once build a shack at my grandpas orchard. Lastly, i guess i can farm and tend to crops.

>>31498288
Mechanical engineer here. I think you give too much credit to the hard sciences. 20 years ago? Maybe. Half of STEM is in for the money and kids can't build for shit these days. They're practically CAD monkeys and couldn't design anything by pencil and paper. There is a reason there are fears in the mechanical/civic/aerospace industries revolving around the experience gap and not necessarily the meme job gap.

They'll probably be the first to go as they would cling to what they have, or perish trying to preserve it.

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>>31494665
yeah but sucking unwashed trail dick is kinda gross , I usually insist they let me wash it with a moist towelette first

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>>31494681
>>31494701
>>31494773
alas you are all just a game to me simple roachies scurry about

I'm in control here

>>31491838
>apprentice carpenter/ roofer
>went to college for engineering
>can do light work on vehicles and tractors
>family taught me crop rotation
>can hunt
>can operate class A vehicles

I guess I'd be useful, if not required for maintaining a community.

>>31491838

I'm a master plumber and electrician....so I can help out in those ways.

>>31491921

Second to me. Been doing those two things for almost 26 yrs.

I got a big dick and balls bursting with grade A genes.

Where dem wimmin at?

>>31492355
Doctor here, can call bullshit. If I have to perform surgery on someone in the middle of a happening, with no sterile equipment, anesthesia or trained assistants, and no medicine then that patient is going to die only slightly slower than without my intervention.

>>31497259
Aviation Diesel engines have been around since the 1920s. If you can make soap and booze, you can make biodiesel.

Clear the cars off of a mall parking lot or stretch of freeway, there's your airstrip.

You can also steal another idea from WW1 aviation- zeppelins or tethered observation balloons. If you can make electricity, you can produce hydrogen from water. Round up a bunch of solar panels, you're in business.

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>>31491838
I have a okay buggout kit and a few small arms, but my skill are mostly electrical and mechanical engineering. I can repair and wire things, I'm sure someone will want to utilize some solar panels or have a truck or bike needing repair.

Let's see
Right now I'm worth just about nothing but in a couple of years:
Will be a qualified Doctor
Will have completed military service

Have a background in mechatronics, so I know how to build shit and how to program shit.

Spent ages helping my dad with his vegetable garden so I'm pretty sure I know more than pretty much anyone but farmers about growing food.

Don't forget the beekeeping part, honey will be like gold in the happening.

Also a damn good shot (I can hit a target with a scoped sub MOA rifle) , but with all my other skillz I don't think that even matters

>>31497954
You just got volunteered for everything. You're ideal for jobs like peeling potatoes or shelling peas. Or stirring the soap kettle, and every other tedious scut job that comes along.

Professional mechanic and plumber.

Hobbies include, hunting, fishing, gardening, fixing real trains, gun smithing and shooting.

I'm also a fair carpenter, and electrician.

I can also weld, braze and know a little about heat treating metal.

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>>31491838
This song will answer it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xbO1eNKCk

>>31491838
MSc Mechanical Engineering + Msc Aerospace Engineering

Could definitely maintain a small fleet of prop aircraft. Not helicopters though, too complicated to maintain.

>>31499398
i fucked up typing.

>>31492448
Deplorable, you aren't getting in.
Phil Ossiferz "actual", you aren't getting in, either, if you are not this particular namefag fuckwad.

>>31492555
>>31492577
>>31493581
I'm sorry to tell you, folks, but the bass-ackward Arabs have already cracked the code on this one (because they are still in the effin' stone age)...

You're just going to have to figure out how to wipe your ass with your left hand, a supply of water, and little else.

P.S. It won't be that hard - if you are eating well, your shit may be solid or sticky- but if SHTF, (and we're all wiping our asses with our hands), then #1- food will be sparse, so we'll be shitting less often, and #2: very few of our shits will be solid, anyway, making a "water shit wipe" very fast and suitable.

(Iraqi plumbing cannot handle American shits or toilet paper solids - mainly because few arabs ever shit solid, anyway, FYI.)

>>31501492
Toilet paper isn't hard to make. There'll be plenty of bank statements and credit card bills laying around to use as feed stock. For that matter, cardboard boxes can be used.

You'll want to be able to make lye and vinegar, so you can break down the pulp and neutralize the reaction. This prevents chemical burns on the bunghole, which is considered to be a bad thing.

Easiest way to make it is in sheet form, which can be torn into quarters for use. Shtf TP will be somewhat rougher than Charmin, bulkier, thicker, and more absorbent. Figure on using 1 or 1-1/2 sheets per poop event. Sheets will be most likely in the 8X8 to 12X12 range.

It'll be a trade good.

>>31491838
Aerospace/Mechanical engineer. Extensive experience with batteries and structural components as well as 8 years as a handyman through high school and college. Their wall is shit because I didn't design it. I'm also a decent shot with a pistol.

>>31498288
social scientist checking in. I can help you with that manlet rage.

also I math. soooo yea. people need that.

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>>31491936
lol look at this prancy faggot

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>>31501692
>chemical burns on the bunghole

>>31491838
>I'm a damn good hunter and a decent fisherman.
>I know how to build
>I'm pretty good working on small engines
>I can operate most heavy equipment

>>31501692
Someone should do a YouTube instructional video on this.

>>31491838
>concept artist
well at least I can sing pretty well, and play the guitar. Not sure if my bard skills will be required though.

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>>31491838
I like to fuck little kids.

>>31491838
I can find and smelt iron ore

>>31496362

Why wait?

>>31492051
to get in i'd just sing them this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk

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>>31492131
Both combat medics and EMTs barely know any medicine, their skill sets are mostly first aid and handing out Motrin.
>mfw last time i dealt with local EMTs one started panicking about "ocular discharge"
>he had noticed tears after the guy had been seizing off and on for a solid 20 minutes

>>31492140
Even basic first aid training combined with a basic knowledge of pharmacology will get you a lot further than "spit on it and wrap it in a tshirt". Infection is the great killer. Learn to deal with infection and you will halve your deathrate.

>>31492503
You just got put in charge of compound defense. After the first chemical warfare attack no one will dare attack us.

>>31492555
Uh I actually have a pretty good theoretical knowledge of cobbling. That would probably be super useful. as for toilet paper, just raid a walmart and steal ALL the tshirts. Should last for years.

>>31493581
>Enjoy chapped asshole
>he still hasn't built a thick callus on his anus
found the first to die come SHTF

>>31492827
If you can make ANY sort of antibiotic you are set for life.

>>31502417
heh heh.

Mechanic, Carpentry, Repairman, Electronics, Bushcrafting,Gardening, Roofing, Electrician,Plumbing, Hvac, Glassblowing, Gunsmithing,Primitive survival, Medic, Advanced ghetto rigging. If DJ numbnutz thinks he's smart I`m going to stand back and let him be smart.

>>31498829
Read the filename, dumbass

>>31498118
>>>iPolitics

>>31499468
underrated post. In engineering school, job shadowing at an automotive company, and an internship with a defense contractor I absolutely affirm this.

Most engineers who went through school after computers became a thing would be absolutely useless. Engineers spend their first couple years of their career doing CAD and occasionally some math or plugging values into simulators then the rest of it coordinating teams of engineers via shitty powerpoint presentations and unrealistic deadlines.

I would estimate the survival rate of all the engineers I've spent time working or studying under with at 4/60+ not to mention all the absolutely useless peers I had in school.

>>31491838
I know how to make percussion caps and smokeless powder
I also know roughly how to prepare penicillin from mold

bathtub chemistry

Basic navigation/gather/hunting skills. Cleaning/Butchering for awhile. Cultivated fruit trees/vines/bushes. Worked on a veggie farm. Fished for abit but wasn't very good at it.

Part time jobs were pretty cool.

...but the stuff I majored in is largely useless in a post-SHTF scenario. It's all tech/data based in a time that will likely not see networks rise again for 1-2 decades.

I have a couple skills that I might be best at in a society that size

>Hunting small+medium game
>trapping
>Tanning hide
>butchering and processing game
>Maintaining firearms (nothing beyond bog standard for a /k/ommando but it'd be mind blowing to normies
>Can load ammunition
>Can make improvised solutions to BOOM and burn type problems
>I'm naturally wired to be up when it's dark out so I could take night watch every day and not bitch about it
>locksmithing enthusiast

But honestly my skills are much better suited to a group 6-20 large where knowing a little about a lot and the basic survival skills would actually be meaningful.
>can instruct on US army small unit tactics for inside of and outside of buildings
>can make fire without a lighter or matches easily
>Can garden
>is physically fit
>Has command presence
>Knows local fauna
>Knows local area very well because walking sidestreets is pretty cool
>knows basic shit like how and why to do water purification, make pine tea, and gather vitamins/minerals from nature
>knows how food affects changes in the body, so can manage consumption efficiently

>>31491838
Skills:
>hunting
>tracking
>trapping
>fishing
>cooking
>10 years experience, training bird dogs
>extensive knowledge of plant life

Schooling:
>2 years of engineering experience
>4 years accounting experience
I can engineer small structures i.e. basic lodging, latrines, fortifications. as well as book keeping. don't think that's useful? You will when someone is keeping account for food, water and ammo rations to ensure you don't get fucked.

Military:
>enlisted today
as long as SHTF waits for a couple years illl have
>experience in HR
>experience in Civil Affairs

>>31504069
>enlisted today
why would one do this if they have professional qualifications

>>31494719
Study up on anatomy and starting reading the BLS it's your bible. Live and breathe those two things.

>>31491936
>showering
>not using designated shitting streets and your hand

>>31491838

I Have a CDL Class A, I jack off to Hentai or Shemale porn 1-2 times a day

>>31496701
>>31492429
I've been working in the warehouse at my campus store for 2 years, so toss me in the logistics / quartermaster corner with y'all.

Set up a bitchin warehouse with everything organized and easily accessible; arms room, food storage, med supplies, etc all divided and organized.

I have a small machine shop and a backyard foundry/forge as a hobby.

I can make you a working Stirling engine, or an apple juice press/grinder, or an electric generator. I have built and fixed machines, tools and various devices from metals, plastics, ceramics, wood and composites.

>>31504149
It's fun and it's free!

>>31492140
Sort of true but even a doc would be limited in a shtf situation. They are good at combining knowledge and directed based on it but without ultrasounds, CTs, sterile art-line kits, X-rays, and medication they're not good to be much better at meaningful treatment than a paramedic.

>>31493411
You sound like me

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What's a good skill/hobby I can practice or learn without having to attend a school? I feel like people who are a good shot and in decent shape are a dime a dozen

>>31491838
Seems like most of the board has a lot of practical skills.

>>31498216
I know you're memeing right now but actually during the siege of Sarajevo there wasn't widespread savagery/cannibalism despite what people say would happen in that exact situation. People got a lot more savage and had a lot less time for bullshit, but when it came down to it everyone was equally in shit and neighbors quickly banded together to police their little wrecked part of their building.

When it comes down to it people stick to what they know best, which is the people closest to them. If there was literally roaming gangs of bandits killing people in the streets everyone in an apartment building would block off the doors and start throwing shit down from the windows if they tried to get in.

I think a lot of preppers and especially survivalists who think "oh, yes, when the collapse comes I'll thrive" forget that 99% of people don't like fighting and they certainly don't like feeling unsafe, so things will crumble down into smaller social units because NOBODY in their right fucking mind wants to brave a lawless world alone. Key words there are "right fucking mind" because the people who willfully reject the safety and comfort of a small "tribe" more than likely have something wrong with them. When times get tough the image of a lone wanderer, free in the world stops being romantic and it shifts to what he was in the 30's: a suspicious drifter, more than likely a threat. I wonder how many hobos up and went "missing" in the backwoods of rural America during the Depression. Think of that when you formulate your SHTF plans, you're not going to be welcome and likely will get shot at if you get too close no matter where the fuck you are.

I hope everyone seriously considers this, you won't be an apex predator among herds of starving normies, you'll be a freak on the periphery of paranoid and highly defensive micro-communities who will desperately defend what little scraps they have.

>>31504601
>I feel like people who are a good shot and in decent shape are a dime a dozen
Not unless you live in the country.

Anything involved with food production. Hot water canning, baking bread from scratch, etc. All that 19th century stuff.

>>31495528
Agreed, super interesting topic

I'm a CNC operator

fuck

I can suck dick pretty good.

>>31504601
Old-school food preservation
>lard/tallow encasement
>smoking
>salt brining
>hot-water bath canning
>drying of herbs and root veggies
All of those are easy enough, and once you master them you can get into things like honey/sugar-curing

>>31504825
Well you'll at least be welcome in the en/k/lave.
>50 guys starve to death while facefucking this one dude (who also starves to death, just a little later than everyone else)

>>31501798
>>31498288
To add to that, I'm just a regular guy, but I'm pretty sure knowing how to handle people who've experienced psychological trauma (ie: almost everyone!), and even possibly treat it, would be pretty damn useful after SHTF.

>>31495528
>>31495748
>>31504789
Good suggestion on Cody'sLab, and yeah at some point I want to make a channel 100% dedicated to "well what if X scenario did happen?" and then go from there.

>>31504601
Phil's actually spot on here: >>31504761

I suggest you watch this guy's videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson for a starter, he does show some old 18th century methods to preserve, prepare, and store food that's geared toward the reenactment community. He plugs his merchandise in every video, but from what I can tell he's actually pretty legit. There's also channels like https://www.youtube.com/user/Nativesurvival who provide a wealth of survival information and demonstrate actual bushcrafting.

Also of note are:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRedNile
https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil
https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
https://www.youtube.com/user/01032010814
https://www.youtube.com/user/submarineboat

There's others, but I can't think of them right at the moment.

>>31504798
Like I said above people band together for safety and security, if you have somebody who can keep your CNC whatever powered then your skills will provide for the community.
>>31504885
This is a vital skill even if it isn't immediately practical, a community successful in the long term would benefit from somebody like you. Yeah, it isn't "this will feed everyone" skills or "this will keep us safe" skills like I have, but it's still useful and any neckbeard who thinks you'd be useless isn't going to be leading a successful community anyway.

>>31503755
I used to be a part of ipolitics. Then college came

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>>31491838
Mechanical repair abilities.
>9 month all-day welding program at tech school
>~600 hours of machinist night class at tech school
>5 years experience as a maintenance mechanic for a production/fab shop, did programming, setup and operation of cnc and manual mills, lathes, press brakes, shears, punches, etc. Was responsible for designing and prototyping new parts and tooling
>2 years experience (so far) as a boilermaker/blacksmith, do heavy repair and overhaul work on GE and EMD locomotives for a class 1 railroad. Cutting, welding, fabricating, etc.
>self-taught automotive repair (rebuilt engine, transmission, rear axle, etc.)
Pic-related, my latest project. Just put the finishing touches on a total rebuild of the Ford 8.8 axle under my wrangler this evening. New bearings, gears and an ARB air locker.
Surely a settlement can put me to work maintaining generators, water pumps, vehicles, etc.

4 years in the infantry, 2 tours in A-Stan.
A journeyman carpenter.
Made it from LA to LV in 3 hours.

>>31504924
>This is a vital skill even if it isn't immediately practical, a community successful in the long term would benefit from somebody like you.
Well, not -me-, but indeed, not to get too over-dramatic with the example, but the guy who helps Jim deal with his PTSD, so he doesn't snap one day and kill Frank, is plenty valuable since they help keep things from devolving even further away from a civilized existence than already.

And when they're not needed for that they can pitch in with the crops, or whatever. Ya don't have to be a life-long farmer to pull up weeds and do other manual labor. Frankly, the usefulness of plenty of 'useless' people is being overlooked here. Plenty of normal people would work fine under the direction of one of the knowledgeable people, and the 'experts' would benefit from having lots of people to help do the work. Shit even hunting benefits from having a bunch of ignorant people to help. They go check traps, and clean kills, while the ones who know how to track go get more game.

>>31503968
>6-20 large
Why do you want to intentionally limit yourself? and why do you think a group like that is going to be anywhere but literally in the middle of nowhere?

All I can think of is that you want to be in charge, and any larger group would be able to overrule you.

>>31505230
>Ya don't have to be a life-long farmer to pull up weeds and do other manual labor.
Oh ho ho, you don't even know. This is quite literally the easiest method used to pick field-grown berries, if it's relevant today it's certainly going to be relevant when the tractor is rarely used because fuel and parts are scarce.

People sharing work frees up labor to be applied elsewhere, it's one of the strongest arguments for small-scale communism. (though the people who try to use that as an argument fail to realize a village is not a modern, functional government which is where communism falls flat on it's ass)

>>31505230
Oh yeah I forgot... how useless is my IT knowledge?

Since for the most part all I can see computers being used for is information storage and maybe ad-hoc communications in places that have the resources to maintain it.

>>31491936
>go without a shower for a month
... Grey water can be used for crops. There is no excuse.

>>31505272
I'm not limiting the size of the group I'd join or the number of people I'd accept into my group, I'm just acknowledging that my skills are acquired on a "jack of all trades, master of few" basis rather than a high depth of specialization sort of basis.

I am acknowledging that without the ability to bring gear and preps, at this moment my ability to be the best person at any of my skills not related to guns within a larger group goes down relatively quickly. I have a 6/10 understanding of many survival skills, but why would you accept in a guy who's just above average in a lot of stuff when you've already got people who are better than him in every area?

The only areas I'd consider myself to have an expert level of proficiency are skills like backpacking, fire starting, not giving a fuck about being cold, foraging, mobility skills (skiing, canoeing, rowing, climbing, etc.), and shooting which are not really in a place to be useful in the context of a larger stationary society but could be quite useful to a migratory tribe sized group.

>>31505272
*a person who is better than him in every area he is good?

>>31506228
Your skills make you a good candidate for some kind of scout/scavenger job. Instead of sending the mechanic out to find a Subaru fuel pump, you get sent. That kind of thing.

You know enough to be useful, not enough to be indespensible. It's not a bad spot to be in.

>>31506849
Yeah, I may also be well suited for outer cordon security in a camp a mile or so from the wall or as a body to consistently fill an OP/LP.

That's work I wouldn't turn away, making camp with one or two others and only returning to the wall every week or so for resupply.

>>31506849
My point seems to stand, though as scout and >>31506921 type work brings me back to that smaller group size living when I'm actually out doing real work.