Let's face it. After SHTF, those of us who are bloggers, marketers, sales people, musicians, and take part in other professions may struggle with finding work and ultimately making a living to survive.
Today most of us rely on the internet for our jobs, and if you go to the office daily or spend your day at a desk, chances are your skills aren't where they need to be to survive after a significant collapse. The way our jobs are going doesn't seem to change anytime soon either. Jobs will continue to gain momentum thanks to the internet, which begs the question — without the web, how will preppers survive?
In a post-collapse world, you will need how to survive without the internet, and you will need a valuable set of skills that will pull you through. Which leads us to discuss another topic of what skills are most useful.
Now, we realize this list does not include some skills and trades (i.e., being a doctor or blacksmith), but here are five powerful skills that if you practice, you will be able to thrive successfully in a post-collapse world.
Ultimately having the right trade is what is going to help you survive because you can barter. Thriving in a world after an economic or societal collapse is your key to survival.
Find out five of best trades and skills you should consider learning in a post-collapse world to survive after the break.
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Nick Wilkinson
I think you guys over look leather crafting and black smithing my father and I do both and we think that you overlook these great skills that a lot more people should know
They should add that too Jerod!
So, what if everyone learns these things now? Then they’re not the best trades anymore. 😛 I think pick something you’re good at that can be handy in an apocalyptic situation, and work on it. Maybe it’s learning to shape knives from bone. Or how to make eating utensils from wood. Hell, I guarantee, if you can find an easy and efficient way to produce toilet paper, you’ll live well after a SHTF situation. At minimum, you’ll never need to finger your own butt to wipe after going number 2. To me, that’s a big reason to learn tp making. 😛
Andrew Michalek
Hell….thriving in the world as it is, is a challenge in and of its self…..
I would like to hope so!!
Yep the paper would b the best, i was tell the wife if shtf that and pads will b in high demand after food.
Medicine and military skills you dolts. Your electronic repair can wait
Everyone overlooks the tp until it’s time to poop 😉
Truth
even before all the cars are used up, horses will be the number one form of transportation. The blacksmith will be the second most important member of the tribe (after the healer).
Chris Santos
OSHA turned this country into a bunch of pussys
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We have three different styles of forges three different sizes of anvils and we can make our own coal from wood in our backyard we are ready for this
Unless there’s a survival “Pharmacy” close by, I’m totally f’ked. I’ll have shitloads of ammo, and an awesome garden, but….totally f’ked.
Bicycle repair.
I’m considering taking up smithing for a hobby. Any suggestions on where to start?
I like the propane coffee can/ 3 gallon can type for general fun. And they are cheep to build with lots of you tube dyi. A small piece of rail road track is a great starter anvil. Use good hammers and eye protection. Don’t use welding gloves or any leather gloves. I don’t wear any. And get some Vise Grips and a 6″ vise. Watch lots of you tube and have fun.
Every restaurant in this country has a bunch of TP in their storage rooms. The big$#%&!@*rolls which would last individuals several weeks each. So maybe learn lock picking or how to use a pry bar and you could be all set on TP for a fairly long time if you hit a couple of restaurants and scavenged their store rooms before everyone else does.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!
Making a knife is so easy. People are always all “OMG! You make knives!” like I’m a warlock or something. Just heat the steel up until it’s non-magnetic (a powerful magnet at the end of a wand or chain will not be attracted anymore) and then quench it in oil. Use oil, not brine because then it doesn’t matter if you don’t know what kind of steel it is (yes, you can even quench air hardening steels in oil!) and then bake it at 400º F for like an hour twice to temper it. THAT’S IT! It’s literally so easy that even a preliterate, unwashed barbarian can do it.
There’s a “last resort” way to do everything. Doesn’t mean it’s the best way, but it’s better than nothing else in a pinch.
Oh, well yeah. You can do what I just described with a MAPP torch or a camp stove in a pinch. But in the absence of a proper kiln or pyrometer…
What I meant was simplifying all steels to a uniform and simplistic heat treatment isn’t a very good practice. But for the novice, in a pinch, it’s not guaranteed to work, but if might. Assuming you get lucky with the mystery steel and assuming you can figure out how to get an actual edge, without ruining the heat treatment you described.
And assuming there’s no warping that needs to be fixed.
And assuming you entirely neglect the rest of the heat treating process like annealing and normalizing.
And assuming you didn’t get a piece of stainless mystery steel that needs to be heat treated with very specific temperatures with precision.
And assuming you’re not using scrap steel that is might have microfractures that need to be addressed so it doesn’t crack and break.
And assuming that you don’t mind large grains in your blade that make it prone to chipping.
Like I said before. Its not a great process. Especially not as a general uniform process.
But if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s better than nothing at all.
Well, no, it’s not a very good practice. That’s not the “right” way to do it at all. But your taking it WAY out of context because my instructions were meant to be exceedingly simple for a SHTF situation. But rock on.
If you’ve ever been in the navy on a ship, you know exactly how valuable to can be. Almost as valuable as chew. I didn’t even chew and kept cases to sell when ship store was out.
Lockpicking would be a useful skill, but even still, when all that runs out? Then what? I’m in it for the long haul. I expect to live past the last leaf of paper. So I’m out of luck if I rely solely on scavanged tp. 😛
Well there are several kinds of plants you can grow which make decent TP. Also, old magazine pages can work if you crumple them up and then flatten them back out a few times. Paper towels, napkins, newspaper, all can work in a pinch. I hope if things get to that point I’ll be able to figure out a way to make my own from something.
Absolutely.
Distilling, beer brewing and tobacco curing. Post SHTF people will value these products as luxuries.
I thought chiropractor would b on there somewhere.
Im a whole animal butcher. That might come in handy. I hope. Haha
I know how to prep and cook food. Not TASTY food.
Once you learn carpentry most other trades come easy from practice. Simply understanding how things go together is half the battle.
we all know that the oldest trade in the world will buy the most………….
Hunting, Fishing, Butchery, Cooking and medical are skills that are just as important.
Physician. …surgeon? Carpentry not so much, you can reuse materials. How about metallurgy?
You see that knife / blade making reality type show that has recently popped up? Pretty neat.
without know what brings the collapse knowing what skills are the best ones to know after is just an opinion based on your bias as to what brings the world down.
Tom, a couple ideas for crafts to build up in case shtf.
I think you’re overlooking the value of a doctor/medic, soldier and mechanic. Just saying
Justin Waitforit Hopkins what we were talking about last night.
Unless we all live in the same State, neighborhood or apartment complex we should all learn a few old school tricks. It’s know as bartering, a trade for a trade
You got it right!!!%
Yes, it will.. You go my friend
If you have plentiful water, then you’ll never run out of tp
The number one form of transportation has and always will be just below your own butt.
The overwhelming most important skill ? Escape and evasion.