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Professions We'll Need in a Post-Apocalyptic World
The following are career backgrounds that would make you a valuable contribution to any team. Your services would be useful for many different applications.
Scientific:
- Medical: A person with First-Aid experience could be crucial to your survival, so that if you are wounded you might not kick the bucket that very day.
- Meteorological: Could foresee certain weather that's in the immediate future (1-3 days max.)
- Mathematics: Could catalog supplies and efficiently and accurately calculate how long they will last.
- Herpetologist: Can identify poisonous snakes
- Chemistry: Able to identify certain Minerals that could be helpful to Building, Food, etc., and can assist in many other project types, as well.
- Entomology: Able to tell if an insect bite could be deadly or not.
- Pharmaceuticals: Able to identify medicines and their proper usage. On top of this, they could possibly make medicines from plants.
Human Services:
- Psychiatry: Could help people with psychological problems, stress and low morale.
- Entertainer/Musician: Regardless of group size or personality, entertainment is always good for morale.
- Tailor/Seamstress: Can make clothing from with a needle and some thread.
- Cook: A happy belly will do wonders for morale health in general.
Mechanical/ Physical:
- Mechanic: Besides being able to repair vehicles, they could strip abandoned cars and take things that might enhance your vehicle's performance.
- Construction: Can construct good defenses, and is always helpful in any other building project.
- Welding: Can weld things to vehicles, weld doors shut, etc., and welding is often a necessary skill in most types of construction.
- Driving: Most groups will need experienced drivers for rapid transport of supplies and people. Vehicles could also be used on raids.
- Fire-fighting: Are trained to handle Biological and Chemical spills and, of course, fires.
- General Labor: There will be a need for strong young people to do much of the hard physical labor.
- Demolition: Can construct bombs, work with explosives and clear obstacles. Chances are that they would also be good with electronics, as well. They could perhaps make ammunition if you had the appropriate materials.
Academic:
- Linguistics: You could encounter other groups in the field that speak a languages other than your own, as well as over the radio.
- Teaching: People educated in education will be necessary for future generations, and such individuals often have very good people skills.
- Architect: Able to identify the structural integrity of buildings, and can assist in building projects.
- Engineering: To build and repair communication equipment, power supply equipment, can often assist auto mechanics, can assist in building projects, on top of the many other uses for their skills.
Military:
- Firearms: This one is probably the most obvious. They can defend you, teach others to shoot more accurately and maintain firearms.
- Ex-Military personnel: Kind of obvious, but will have combat and weapons training.
- Naval Expertise: Many bridges would collapse and require crossing by boat or raft. You may also at some point need to raid or collect supplies from a boat.
- Reconnaissance: Are trained and willing to leave your secured location for several days to scout for scavenging locations, Zombies with little or no "back up," and virtually anything else.
Outdoors:
- Farming/Agricultural: Necessary to set up any type of long-term base.
- Hunting/Tracking: To find Game (animals), track the movements of Zombies and other humans, and are often good shots.
- Outdoorsman: Can build short-term shelters, build fires, trap and hunt animals, can inform fellow survivors of the various survival subjects.
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| lisapotterz | Professions We'll Need in a Post-Apocalyptic World - additions? (page: 1 2 3) | 59 | May 19 2011, 1:20 AM EDT by brandon_a_boyer | ||
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Consider the long-term usefulness of artisans and craftsman. We will need skills in areas such as leather working, basketry, pottery, paper- and candle making, weaving, etc. And artists may be as useful as entertainers in the long term (they also may be helpful in drawing maps, building plans, or keeping any type of visual record, etc).
Yeah, I admit the arts are one of the only skills I have to offer! |
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| z_warrior | team checklist | 0 | Apr 5 2010, 1:46 PM EDT by z_warrior | ||
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This is a very well thought out and planned list. Take the information you see here and start checking your team out to find where you are lacking and see if you know anyone who can fill those deficits quickly instead of trying to learn yourself. For instance in group, I found that although many of us have small gardens, we didn't know much about large scale farming and crop rotation. So by adding one of my good friends, my team gains his knowledge of farming along with his knowledge of the outdoors (local flora and fauna, what is and isn't poisonous, etc).
Also try to find people who can fill multiple positions and don't have just one person for a vital role. If only one person in your group knows first aid and they get lost, killed, or turned zed... your team is SOL for anything larger than a small cut. |
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| Deacan | Afew more suggestions (page: 1 2) | 22 | Mar 25 2009, 11:20 AM EDT by DevilNuts | ||
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Excellent posting. And just to add, Just because we say that you need these people, doesn't mean you can't take the responsibility now during these times of Z-peace, and learn these skills. I got French, Spanish, Russian, and German under my belt. Also at the same time, (inspired by the zombies 100 percent in this) I have started taking classes at the local community college in radiology, and nursing. I have zero interest in going into the medical field, but I am practing, not preaching.
But on the the second point, afew more suggestions Chemists-Cause I am guessing no one here knows the difference between the periodic table numbers of salt from magnesium. Teacher-Cause just because your the bigshot leader, doesn't mean you know how to teach kids trig or steps of proper teaching. Seamstress-Have you ever tried to make a shirt from needle and thread? Not as easy as you think. Pharmacists-These people differ from the medical section, cause they aren't docters. Most of them have no medical training. But they know thier pills. Entomologist-You wanna know if that spider can kill you, or in survival situations, if that big fat beetle is safe to eat, right? Sailors & Divers-What? You think you aren't going to have to cross water. Little known fact, but over 50% of America's bridges are a C rating or lower. That means that they can basically fall at any moment. Not even the Brooklyn Bridge will last longer than 7 years without proper maintaining. Entertainers-You want people to follow you? They will do so only if they enjoy the thought of it. Architects-You know the structual intergrity of steel compaired to iron? I think not. But these guys do, and when your building your bases, or pimping out your rides, these guys are going to be the ones you want designing it. Firefighters-They don't just fight fires. These guys are trained for chemical and biological accidents. |
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