After the collapse, those of us who are writers, bloggers, and marketers, for example, may struggle with finding work and making it through.
This same situation may be true for people who have other careers in an office, or their job relies on the Internet. After all, our society depends on the Internet to maintain and create jobs and continue to develop more jobs (such as roles in social media) in the future.
However, when SHTF and we're unable to access the Internet, many of us will no longer have skills that'll get us through a survival situation. Trades that will help you survive will enable you to barter when the going gets tough and be able to dwell successfully in a world after a societal or economic collapse.
So what are some of the trades that can help you succeed after a collapse?
After the break, learn more about the trades and skills you should begin studying now to get ready for when SHTF.
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Good information
There are so many pop up ads I can’t even finish the article. I may stop looking at All your articles… Amateurs!
Obviously doesn’t think potable water is important?
Something I’ve never seen on any BOB list is a ruler . Knowing basic geometry you can make a right angled triangle ( 3,4,5 sided triangle ) , a plumb line gives you a vertical line . Add a maths formulae app to your survival library .
How does one become a blacksmith these days? are there schools? is it exspensive
Plenty of books on the subject around . I picked up some tips from the TV series Forged in Fire . I built my own forge but you do need to buy an anvil .
i ain’t surviving is all this article is telling me…
Rail track or an old crankshaft cutdown can work well as an anvil. I’m self taught for seven years now
I trained as a Goldsmith so I’m more used to a microwelder , triblet , gravers vice and a benchmate . I do have a 50 kg London pattern anvil though .
I trained as a Goldsmith so I’m more used to a microwelder , triblet , gravers vice and a benchmate . I do have a 50 kg London pattern anvil though .
Farming in general. Veg/fruit production is important, but animal husbandry is just as important. Livestock can often thrive in places where a garden wouldn’t.
Of course guns are always first priority…
Raising and butchering livestock right behind guns for me.
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this is a bullshit article gardening and preserving foods,animal husbandry,ammo of course,firewood production many others before the one they give
Jason Hancock
Replace # 4 with blacksmithing
Blacksmithing, Hunter, Trapper, and Farmer. I’d assume that these would be a few skills and trades
Carpentry (y)
No auto mechanic, eh?
They will be needed Any engine repair still same with electricians
Wrong wrong wrong except with two.
Gunsmith/ammo guy is good, same for carpenter. The other three should be an engineer, a chemist, and a doctor.
So your telling me that electronic repair is in the top 5 but Black Smithing isn’t?…
So your telling me that electronic repair is in the top 5 but Black Smithing isn’t?…
Prostitution.
The worlds oldest profession
There forgetting medics your going to need them for all the gun shot victims and infections.
4 out of 5 here, but the one I’m not good at, doesn’t really make sense, post apocalypse will there be the need for electrical repair? Only if there is electricity…
I’m making hootch
Personally I think electronic repair will go to back of the line.. EMP attack will destroy all electronic devices plus knock out the power grid indefinitely !
I can shoe horses, and hand forge horseshoes and horseshoe nails from old rebar. I can also do a little blacksmithing.
In northern California (Jefferson.) That can be traded for food, ammo, shelter, hay and pasture for my horses.
Well I know #1, my dad knows #2 and my wife knows #5. I think we’re good.
However, an electrician might know how to build something to create, or rig onto an existing electrical source.
Right