What is your post-apocalyptic occupation?

[forinborin]

AIBU to ask you what your post-apocalyptic occupation would be?

With all the recent news about the shortage of skilled workers - HGV drivers, farm labourers, and today there are news about an emergency visa scheme considered for abattoir workers, I started wondering what would I do if the modern society suddenly fell back into - well, not Dark Ages exactly - but, say, mid-late 19th century ways of living.

And realised that I actually have very little in terms of real-life tradeable skills. In a world without computers, my other skills are worth zero to the community, and I would probably immediately fall to the bottom of the newly established social order.

What about you?

The safety planner. I've seen enough movies to have an actual zombie safety plan😂 could be adapted for vampires. I even know where I could steal a generator from. Concrete walls around a place woth enough space to grow our won, have some small livestock, i know how to mask our smell, etc😂
But only if it's the night zombies or slow Walking dead ones. Not WWz...

I really put a lot of thought into it... Freaking myself out now...

I am on a trade body so I reckon I would be a merchant. Make sure that the headscarves get traded properly.

I reckon I could combine a heretofore-totally-useless academic background in mythology with a fairly useful career in marketing and comms to become the community folklorist cum storyteller, collecting and retaining all the essential knowledge that would otherwise be lost in the new dark ages. I can already picture myself sitting around the fire recounting the tales of days gone by, and weaving new children's stories about such lost nuggets as the dire consequences of crossing the road when RedMan is on the prowl...

@Mymapuddlington

I vote *@Twinsmum2003* aka aunt Lydia has to make her own community

Ha, yes! Post apocalyptic world should not be Gilead!

Happy to muck in with gardening and I'm a good cook, excellent baker and sourdough queen....so there's that, too

Well if we’re doing specific animals... I’m good with dogs and rabbits, ok with horses, sheep, goats, chickens and my cow experience is a bit more sketchy... but I feel like they’re basically horses but easier?

I have a lot of barely suppressed anger. Surely that would help? I’m imagining a baseball bat and those soft squishy half rotten zombie heads.

Oh and I can cook (incl building a fire, chopping wood etc).

What I’m saying is that I’m calling dibs on the axe, the cleaver, and all large knives in out tribe.

I'll keep chickens and be the GUARDIAN OF THE BOOK.

I'm just not sure which book....

I will be mainly cooking, sewing, gardening, weaving and knitting socks I think. I hope I would be useful enough that the tougher folk would find me worth defending and feeding

“They are, also tastier, which is important!“

And much easier to milk, lol

Apocalyptic medic.

I've got a shit hot immune system, none too grand at physical stuff, but my bandaging is a work of art.

Ha - reminds me of Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe & Everything, where 1980s middle-class British office worker Arthur Dent finds himself living on prehistoric Earth and his only useful modern skill is to teach prehistoric humans to make sandwiches and he becomes known as the Sandwich Maker. I could be a Sandwich Maker 😄

@EatYourVegetables We could form a Menopausal Zombie Squad motto: who dares bitterly regrets it

I’d be rescuing, guarding, and copying the few tattered books being blown to pieces by desert winds. When Tories came with guns to demand I give up the evil volumes my sweetly reasonable advocacy would shame them to tears.

(Obvs I and my secret team would be spreading word of revolution through encoded messages in the illustrations.)

Ooh good question OP! I would be a herbalist and nurse

@RaininSummer

I will be mainly cooking, sewing, gardening, weaving and knitting socks I think. I hope I would be useful enough that the tougher folk would find me worth defending and feeding

If you knit me socks, I'll shoot zombies and hunt for you.

They'd better not be scratchy socks

I can make blankets, light fires with. Single match and milk cows.

But not all at once.

I knew there are many similarly skilled people!

We will be a small and probably short-lived, but a very proud tribe. With plenty of socks!

Nearly everyone died in the apocalypse, right? So I'm going to repopulate the country by farming high quality babies. Organic and freerange of course. I shall be recruiting suitable persons with a womb from MN, so form an orderly queue over there.

   Also recruited from MN  will be sensible  post menopausal  women with lots of expertise on men,  your job will be selecting suitable stud males. The studs  will live free-range  on  some small Scottish island, except during the mating season.  

  Lots of details to be ironed out.

Chemist here so I guess I'd be useful making explosives. If you just want boring then I can use my skills to purify water.

I'm an actor. I actually think I'll get more work post-apocalypse, when people are starved of entertainment, and there's less competition from reality TV stars, stand up comics and YouTubers.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Headscarf maker. For some reason, my brain associated lockdowns, post apocalypse etc with us all reverting to wearing headscarves. I'm reasonable with a needle, so my business is sorted.

Why do we need headscarves?!

I have no skills to offer in this scenario, unless you count making the mumsnet chicken feed 5000. But in this case, I'd get shot by Terry for having a chicken?!

Things that I could be useful for are that I could farm ducks, cook and I have some knowledge of medicine but nothing professional, just through learning in my own time. I’m pretty clued up on survival skills.
I’ve also shot a gun.

For people who will defend me from the zombies, I will make the softest of soft socks, Mrs Pratchett.