What is your post-apocalyptic occupation?

Zombie apocalypse: lean protein supplement

Technical regression: I can trap and hunt

It's interesting that we're all predicting zombie apocalypse, when I was growing up it was always a nuclear apocalypse. I don't know which would be worse.

I find people are remarkably shite in a crisis and I am quite good in a sort of long running/things needs organising/where shall we start/life or death decisions kind of situation.

So I shall be organising teams to do all the needs-doing stuff and having the last word

Although a zombie will probably eat me on day 2 and it will turn out I was just a promising early character - like the guy with the camper van who died before they even got to the Greene farm. Or Carole's daughter.

I can lance boils, suture wounds ( ordinary needle and thread will do until it runs out), remove foreign bodies from various body orifices without special medical equipment, splint broken bones with improvised materials if necessary.

Happy to offer my services but would likely be without anaesthetic, sorry!

Tarot reader (I do readings as a hobby and have been told that some of my readings are scarily accurate )

I think I'd get by as a medic-type but could also grow veg.

Man slayer. Only the useless ones though.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan
Bless him

I'm post-menopausal and really good at telling men what to do. So I could take charge of that stud island of men and be in charge of selection. I could make them do tests and run challenges.

[quote FindingMeno]@JesusInTheCabbageVan in would your DH be interested in scavenging?....[/quote]
Depends on whether we'd be interested in food poisoning, I suppose.

Also, he's not keen on rain or mud.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan in would your DH be interested in scavenging?....

Seems I need to try hard for selection.
I can grow veg, forage, make a decent fire and cook on it, shoot accurately, skin and gut, navigate, build shelters and I have a calm head in a crisis.
I would prefer to have employment on the home base and let other more disposable people fight and scavenge please.

My DH just burned lunch after being left alone with it for five minutes. Nonetheless, I am still fond of him and he will cause no trouble if we build him a spreadsheet out of sticks. Would it be OK if I bring him?

I grow food and keep chickens already so I will be a poultry farmer / vegetable producer. In between that I will knit everyone's jumpers for them 😁

Also wildlife rehab will still be important right? I think I might be a busy person if life goes backwards

I’m dual qualified as a nurse and midwife, so as long as there is people around, my job role won’t change haha

While my actual job is to do with computers, I'd probably be fairly useful in a post apocalypse world.

I can ride and train horses. If we can still use cars or vehicles, I could fix them. I'm good at archery and shooting. Good at cooking too. Know a reasonable amount on wounds etc that I could get by on keeping myself healthy and avoid infections.

I am a crap gardener though, so I'll definitely die from hunger unless I find a gardener to grow our food.

I'm a paramedic, so would probably be an all round medicine women and midwife with whatever equipment, drugs and textbooks I could get my hands on.

But I can also navigate in mountains and (sort of) sail a yacht, so I could sail myself and others to the nearest (zombie infested) Island.

I know how to split / chop wood (wood grenade / mallet / axe style).

I'd be a dead person/zombie. I have precisely no interest in living anywhere without electricity and hot and cold water on tap.

I can knit and sew. I have a wealth of patterns yarns fabrics. I can start a fire with ease and I have some foraging skills. I could definitely kill and skin a rabbit for food. I can also fish but not brilliantly experience d. I have a bow and selection of arrows too. What I cant do is be a very good survivor. People don't like me so I'd probably be the first victim of the enivitable violence that would erupt over something small.

im a cleaner so i would imagine i would still do the same job but in a different setting maybe washer woman

At this stage, I am wondering if a cabinet of zombies would produce a worse outcome than Boris' picks.

If someone else can shear the sheep for me I can do all the other processing from raw fleece to garment. I can generally process vegetable fibres too if you want some string made out of nettles.
I can also gut and skin/pluck animals and birds. I am definitely better at the living off the land side of things than the part where you have to fight zombies.
Luckily dd is a competent archer so she can be in charge of that side.

I'm in.

I am good at running, sword-fighting and using a crossbow. I can also brew beer, wine and spirits (along with cider and vinegar). When I am not running around the woods, you will find me maintaining the library or testing out the stud farm.

For campsite organization, you need my DH. The man is a legend at it (and burning things).