.. electrician? What is Depression proof?
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Technical jobs are only good if the entire pyramid is stable enough to continue. But if it is, then they are the best, you maintain the most value.
The next choice would be a trades job, As for electrician, It is not a terrible choice. But I would likely select some form of steel/concrete work. welder/fitter/rigger can be very transferable. Carpentry is more important that one knows.
I think the most depression proof skill set would be small scale farming/ranching
Carpentry might work... thanks!! the rest are generally good ideas, too, but not for me as they seem a bit dangerous. I prefer low physical risk. ... I know a couple guys who were in the steel industry recently. Apparently the new hires are mostly retards who are work shy. The women and diversity also find ways to avoid work. Which makes sense - steel is apparently hard work, even for men so it would be especially difficult for women. They always told me that younger generations are lucky in that their competitors are so useless. All you have to do is show the smallest amount of competence - or just do your job - to be promoted, lol. But then, working around retards means putting yourself at risk, too.
I already have the background in homesteading and animal husbandry and general medical care. I was looking at electricial knowledge because it is physically less demanding and it's good to be able to do that for yourself.
Maybe we should look at what became useful in Russia after the collapse, as well. 🤔 They probably used stills.
If men want to make good money right now, I know there is a shortage of truck drivers, septic workers (putting in septic systems, draining them etc). Also, probably stuff like the ice roads, lobster/crab fishing.
For women, I was also looking at esthetican school because even in the collapse (like on Survivor) women want to look good and value those that can make them look good. Plus, it's obviously super useful for yourself. I'm going to do chemical peels etc this winter but honestly, I'm not great at doing hair. It's something I really need to learn. 🤓 It seems as though most women don't know how to style hair, though, so ...
I was also looking at the death industry. I think in the short to mid term, being a death doula would be helpful and financially good. As long as the boomers still have money to blow. 😋🤫
I have known a few female electricians, it is still a tough job. Pulling wire is the role of the new entry in industrial setting. In residential it is pretty relaxing work in most cases.
Bunch of math to get out of school, so if that is your game then it is also a good choice.
Almost all of the shortages you hear about are BS. Truck driver, trades jobs, fishing boats. Ask anyone that's been applying for jobs lately.
Haircuts will probably be in higher demand than skincare, because men need them too. Midwifery also more needed than death doula. Life does go on... Lol
Bad skill was rancher/farmer in the great depression. They caused the great depression. The Great Depression started from the dust bowl. The dust bowl was caused by farmers changing traditional farming methods by expanding agricultural land, huge fields, much bigger, and using non traditional fertilisers. They hacked away at the land, deforesting, and changing it. Temperature soared, drought, and the dust and plagues of insects. Great depression followed. Vicious cycle. More farmland needed to make money. More dust and more crop failure. Bad skills.
Today it might be different. Except big droughts and insects hitting farmland presently and last year in the Mid West, West, North West?
The idiot down voting should study history.
Thank you for a good description. But didn't it force regulation. Had to adopt quotas, to try to make up shortfalls, later, rotation or what to grow? Or was that later, after ww2? Didn't a lot more land get seized as a result. It turned entire places into ghost towns.
It's not the first time the government has sold off some of the same region either. Wasn't there something recent in the Mid West? Offering cheaper land rights.
Well, it is something to consider. But, when I look back at 100 years of my family history, the farm kids did ok compared to city kids. Maybe they needed the city to make big money but there was always good food available on the farm. Maybe they were in areas without drought.
The Great Depression. Wasn't all farmers just a huge swathe of them in certain regions. This caused systemic supply line failures. There was dumb presidents, big shortages. Millions dead. Cannibals. The cannibals ate well.
This is absolutely incorrect. There is no basis at all for this false claim.
The farmland and its output had no relationship to the great depression at all. The great depression was an economic event associated to the stock market, it was preceded by collapsing businesses as the profit was extracted at a rapid pace, leading to costs of good exceeding consumer spending and further business collapse, eventually making it to the stock markets.
All the while, food production was sustained at acceptable levels.
The farming at the time was not some huge conglomerate and much of the food people ate was sourced much closer.
No, the 'dust bowl' event had nothing to do with farming practices as evidenced by the fact there was a significant series of events weather wise that led up to it. Primarily a clash between cyclical systems is the best explanation.
The fact that much of the area of the globe also experienced sever temperature shift is just more evidence. It was the sun, not man.
I know you are a complete warmist and believe all the bullshit about co2 being capable of warming the planet. Soon, you will gather enough information to correct the errors in your mind. There is no significant warming, nor has there been. Man did not create the dustbowls of the 30's and only simple minded people with lack of information would choose the accept that.
Small scale farming and ranching is your best path to self sustaining in a collapsing economical system.
Shut up. That is not the way you address anybody.
It had everything to do with the Great Depression. Less traditional means of fertiliser. Like the fucking horse. All those cars. They expanded farmland rapidly. Expanded the fields, bigger they're using tractors. Temperature rose it wasn't entirely global either. But there was drought. There was insects and there was the dust bowl. It caused a viscous cycle. Where the shit kept going wrong. Yes the dust bowl caused it. Farmers caused the dust bowl. The temperature didn't help. But crop failure was due to changing methods.
Now fuck off.
lol, eat shit dumbass, It is like you have no recollection of prior conversations. This tone has already been reached, I was about as nice as once can get with the dumbass ignorance you spread with your fear mongering wef lies.
You know nothing at all about anything, go ahead and blame shit you have no idea about. Your claims are useless drivel, made by imbeciles yet you choose to parrot that dumb shit even today.
It is retarded. You need mental health help.