What is your post-apocalyptic occupation?

I'm an academic (not useful) but my expertise is guerrilla warfare strategy (super useful?)

DH knows how to cook for hundreds of people at a time, if your castle needs a chef @ipswichwitch

I can do engineering type things. I'm a good cook too. I have done some teaching so I can cover maths and stuff for the post apocalyptic children. Too old to help repopulate really. All of this is predicated on not losing my glasses in the melee, or there would have to be stealth Specsavers raids!

I would be the storyteller . Am really good at remembering and reciting stories.

I can knit socks. But only really slowly so probably about 12 people a year may have warm feet and I don’t think anyone will pay a months wages for one pair of socks.

Also, I don’t know how to sheer sheep, or card abd spin wool so won’t have anything to knit anyway.

Once my asthma meds run out there’s no way I can run anywhere so I’m definitely going to end up eaten by zombies.

Learned loads of skills as a guider for many years; shelter building, making fires, identifying mushrooms, first aid, cooking in a camp fire etc. In my electronics, theatre tech & teaching eras I could set up communications equipment, not afraid of hard work, can teach the kids in our apocalyptic settlement all of that survival stuff. I have lots of knowledge on nuclear stuff so might be a bit useful if WW3 kicks off.

Although I’d much rather be the wise old sage sitting by the fire crocheting.

Unfortunately, due to disability, in a zombie apocalypse I’d be one of the ones either eaten or turned as I’d be buggered if I have to run. So maybe I’d be useful as a rather slow moving, plump bait!

Id be a leader, I'm fabulous at corralling people. Particularly with physical tasks.
Until contact lenses ran out. Then I'd be a blind mole.

@EatYourVegetables @madroid I'll join you in the Menopausal Militia. I've acquired plenty of practical skills in my life but am pretty sure the state murderous rage I'm in most of the time might be my most prized asste atm...

I'm not very outdoorsy but I do run a preschool room so I'll raise everyone kids, I once caught a massive dog that broke into our playground so I'm clearly able to protect them from zombies too.

I went a bit overboard with my Brecht/covid planning and will therefore be the one living a life of luxury trading tins of beans and corned beef bbe December 2020

I have 40 years of medical experience and can make herbal remedies, soap creams and I'm a good Gardner.

I have an apocalypse plan (thanks to insomnia) Basically involves taking over a nearby castle, next to farmland and a river, ram raiding the chemist on the way for all the good drugs, and collecting the people I know with skills. So I’d be living it large like Negan or something. Castle is very nice, and there’s a boatload of swords and stuff.
I can make sloe gin and ginger wine.

Yeah I'm the same op, totally fucked 😂.

Dh on the other hand would thrive. He can do all the outdoorsy things - survival, wild camp, make a fire, set a trap, skin an animal, find water. He's a fantastic gardener and can grow things, has a deep knowledge of herbs. He's first aid trained and a fantastic cook. Great at DIY, making things, fixing things, all manner of things.

I think I'd just have to push dh forward and hope he was good enough for both of us!

In terms of specific skills, I can teach, bake bread and brew beer/wine. I can play a musical instrument well enough to be reasonably entertaining. I know the basics of spinning, dyeing and weaving (useful for the knitters, I can knit but not well tbh). I would be good at setting up communication systems (Morse code, basic electronics, cryptography).

I've spent my whole life accumulating a small amount of skill in as many different areas as possible (also known as dabbling). I am expert in almost none of them, but I think generalists are underestimated - knowing the basics (or a little more) will often be enough, and being able to turn your hand to a variety of different things makes you useful in most circumstances.

I can make clothes

I guess I could quality test some of the males, I'd be OK with that.

I'm a pretty good at driving so I'll be the get away driver for when we do the initially deserted but always end up as zombie filled shop runs. I also like shopping so I'll take my chances with load of zombies over having to take 2 under 4s to Tesco any day.

I'm good at bread and I can brew beer with wild yeast.
I can amputate limbs and have done a C-section before.
I can also kill animals for food and milk cows or goats.

But I'm no fighter so I reckon I'll get killed by a zombie in the first wave (or vampire).

I'm a midwife! And I can knit either blankets or scarves. Basically anything that doesn't require shaping. I'm a good cook and a good listener and I don't gossip so people can come to me to offload their worries and have a nice bowl of stew or soup.

Great thread! Love dystopian fiction.

I’m a teacher so multiskilled. Would like to think myself as Rick but I’m peri so no doubt be more like Negan 😳

DD amd DS are fast runners. I’ve been training them since birth for the moment the world ends. I would send them out to forage and DS is awesome with a Nerf gun.

@DedalusBloom - those skills are marvellous. Who needs sewing when you control the skies.

I have a robin who perches quite close to me & they are territorial - I wonder if I should do some Robin whispering about the apocalypse - he may have some ideas.

I could be a stud-male selector.

Failing that, I can muck out, tack up and ride, so would be useful around horses.

Mostly, I am very good at teaching children to read, and I quite like DC so could run the school. I can get a sourdough starter going and can make bread, can knit and crochet and used to be able to spin. I also used to keep sheep so that's your winter woollies sorted.

I can do basic butchery (you'd need DH for that, really, and to supply the meat, he's a very good shot; I can load and fire but my aim is terrible).

I'd also try and bring along friends who, between them, can build and repair houses, make furniture, run epically productive polytunnels, breed and train working dogs and do metalwork.

We'd also need a midwife, to add to the dentist and the apothecary. Someone who would be able to get the works of a watermill going would be handy, because otherwise you're grinding flour by hand and that is bloody tedious.

I'm already working on befriending some local crows on my way to work every morning, so by the time the Apocalypse comes, I shall have raised a Crow army and have dominion over them and will command the skies.

Also weirdly good at cat whispering. Any use?