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Finnishsurvivor
Useful jobs?
Feb 23 2010, 9:06 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 23 2010, 9:06 AM EST
Any useful jobs before ZDay that would help you to survive and build something that would help to survive? 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
mudroll
mudroll
1. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 23 2010, 3:32 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 23 2010, 3:32 PM EST
"Any useful jobs before ZDay that would help you to survive and build something that would help to survive?"
Army personal.
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DerSchatten
2. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 23 2010, 3:43 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 23 2010, 3:43 PM EST
"Army personal. "
To be more specific, any SF type job with in the military. Not just the Army.
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Finnishsurvivor
3. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 12:21 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 12:21 AM EST
"Army personal. "
Dont know, you mean like a solder?
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VagabondVance
VagabondVance
4. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 12:25 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 12:25 AM EST
To answer your question, anything but socialites, lawyers, and politicians 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    
James457
James457
5. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 12:50 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 12:50 AM EST
corp of engineers in the army Do you find this valuable?    
Freelancer47
Freelancer47
6. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 12:59 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 12:59 AM EST
Military training gives you what you get out of it if you are willing to absorb the input around you. Combat experience will help you in making tough calls & dealing with life or death situations.

Job's I would think that rate pretty high up there.

Farmer
Gardener
Rancher
Hunter
Fisherman
Carpenter
Engineer
Doctor/Nurse/EMT/Midwife
Tailor/Seamstress

By no means is this a definitive list.

Let me ask you all this: when was the last time you had to fix something with your own two hands?
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mecamouser
mecamouser
7. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 1:15 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 1:15 AM EST
"Military training gives you what you get out of it if you are willing to absorb the input around you. Combat experience will help you in making tough calls & dealing with life or death situations.

Job's I would think that rate pretty high up there.

Farmer
Gardener
Rancher
Hunter
Fisherman
Carpenter
Engineer
Doctor/Nurse/EMT/Midwife
Tailor/Seamstress

By no means is this a definitive list.

Let me ask you all this: when was the last time you had to fix something with your own two hands?"
Metal worker
Machinist
Mechanic
Police
Gun Store Owner lol

lol pretty every job you could imagine could be considered useful!

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USNtwidget
USNtwidget
8. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 1:31 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 1:31 AM EST
Im a Radar Technician in the navy, i doubt radars are gonna be high in demand 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Freelancer47
Freelancer47
9. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 2:33 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 2:33 AM EST
"Im a Radar Technician in the navy, i doubt radars are gonna be high in demand"
Correct, they won't.

But think about all the things you have to know to even BE a Radar Tech.

I'm sure you've had some time behind a Ratchet, and maybe a Soldering Iron, connecting wires to female recievers... If you look deeply at what you do, you might be able to transfer that to other things...
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Jahadaz
Jahadaz
10. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 3:18 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 3:25 AM EST
Lets not forget the people that build and operate hydroelectric dams. Same for nuclear power plants. Without power, we will return to the living standards of the 18th century and stay there.

*edit*
A chemist or two would probably be useful.
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Freelancer47
Freelancer47
11. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 3:29 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 3:29 AM EST
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A chemist or two would probably be useful."
Someone once brought up Mathematician. There's about 3 dozen uses for people good with numbers...
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Jahadaz
Jahadaz
12. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 3:30 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 3:30 AM EST
"Someone once brought up Mathematician. There's about 3 dozen uses for people good with numbers..."
Very true
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PedroAsani
PedroAsani
13. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 7:42 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 7:42 AM EST
I think most jobs have some transferrable skills.

Except lawyers. Their entire career is based upon the legal system which would no longer exist. Hope they have some good hobbies (although their 80 hour workweek would suggest otherwise)
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AgEnT_GrEEn
AgEnT_GrEEn
14. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 7:56 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 7:56 AM EST
"I think most jobs have some transferrable skills.

Except lawyers. Their entire career is based upon the legal system which would no longer exist. Hope they have some good hobbies (although their 80 hour workweek would suggest otherwise)"
I know they generally can write up documents fairly well and have decent vocal skills, but even still they'd have a role limited to say, writing a contract or something along those lines.

Paper-pushing jobs in general don't stretch far enough to count for much beyond punching in numbers, fixing coffee, playing Evony, eating Cinnamon rolls, checking out that attractive chick/dude three cubicles down that you don't have the guts to ask out and eventually getting chewed out by your manager since you played Evony instead of punching in numbers.
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ironhand
ironhand
15. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 24 2010, 8:33 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 24 2010, 8:33 AM EST
how about some less "specific" jobs like

"jack-of-all-trades" handyman (general repair)
"trader" (deal maker)
landscaper (general type of "farmer")

to the very skilled...

auto/truck/heavy equipment mechanics
appraiser
ammunition reloader (not usually a career or professional job)
alternative power technician
biologist
botanist
chemist
veterinarians
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mecamouser
mecamouser
16. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 25 2010, 3:00 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2010, 3:00 AM EST
"Correct, they won't.

But think about all the things you have to know to even BE a Radar Tech.

I'm sure you've had some time behind a Ratchet, and maybe a Soldering Iron, connecting wires to female recievers... If you look deeply at what you do, you might be able to transfer that to other things..."
I deinatley agree, the fact that ur Radar specific, does not negate the fact that u r a well trained sea man.

ur experience in commo as well as electrical work would u make u invaluable. Not to mention the fact that u can handle a weapon!
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Jahadaz
Jahadaz
17. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 25 2010, 3:08 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2010, 3:08 AM EST
"I deinatley agree, the fact that ur Radar specific, does not negate the fact that u r a well trained sea man.

ur experience in commo as well as electrical work would u make u invaluable. Not to mention the fact that u can handle a weapon!"
Eh?
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ArielT
ArielT
18. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 25 2010, 4:05 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2010, 4:05 AM EST
Anything that provides you with plenty of money to buy survival gear and the knowledge to use it. Wouldn't it be easier to survive the apocalypse you had enough money to effectively buy whatever you need for that situation right now?

While we're disparaging lawyers, consider a patent lawyer with a fat paycheck that has a bomb shelter added to his house stocked with supplies and spends his weekends learning from high-end instructors in the art of survival, shooting, and self-defense.
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Jahadaz
Jahadaz
19. RE: Useful jobs?
Feb 25 2010, 4:20 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2010, 4:20 AM EST
"Anything that provides you with plenty of money to buy survival gear and the knowledge to use it. Wouldn't it be easier to survive the apocalypse you had enough money to effectively buy whatever you need for that situation right now?

While we're disparaging lawyers, consider a patent lawyer with a fat paycheck that has a bomb shelter added to his house stocked with supplies and spends his weekends learning from high-end instructors in the art of survival, shooting, and self-defense."
Just playing devil's advocate
How many lawyers do you think are this survival minded?
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