Top 10 skills within devastation...

[NeverAmI]

Here is the scenario...

The world has collapsed due to an energy crisis. The oil ran out and our petroleum based society crumbled within a few years. Suddenly we no longer have the gas to run our cars, the pesticides to protect our crops, the plastics that form the basis for our technological infrastructure. Humanity is reduced back to the 1700s and even simple things like antibiotics are hard to come by. People who use to have high minded professions like Wall Street brokers, lawyers, social workers, scientists, etc. now have a useless skill set because society can no longer support their endeavors. Only the most practical skills like farming are in high demand.

What do you think would be the top in demand 10 skills in this new world?
Would you be able to adapt and to survive?
Would this world form a new order or would it descend into violence, chaos, and anarchy?
What profession do you see yourself taking in this new world?

1. Skills to find/produce fresh water
2. Agriculture/food production
3. Self defense - Defend what you have
4. War strategy - Preemptively plan for attacks
5. Ability to love - Otherwise you may go mad and ruin your chances of survival)

Yes, I would survive or go down fighting.

 

[enfp can be shy]

Maybe this whole scenario originates from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism ?

I'm feeling a Gilligan's Island moment coming on...

Like this?

 

[testing]

Not quite... more like this:



(Looking for coconut shells and some palm fronds) And we need to nominate someone to pedal the bike-generated power station: hm, Satya, this is your thread so I vote you.

 

[Barnabas]

What do you think would be the top in demand 10 skills in this new world?
Would you be able to adapt and to survive?

1) Farming

2) wood working

3) hunting

4) obtaining clean water

5) protection(law and what not)

6) preaching

7)education

8) fire fighting

9) medicle

10) trnasportation


Would this world form a new order or would it descend into violence, chaos, and anarchy?

Both

What profession do you see yourself taking in this new world?

World always needs preachers.

 

[Shai Gar]

Well, I was in the Girl Scouts. They taught me to make spaghetti sauce and sell cookies. Bummer.

And ENFP -- HOW did you get this hardwired as a kid? Curious to know...

You were in the Girl Guides obviously, not the Scouts.

 

[Shai Gar]

Maybe this whole scenario originates from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism ?
Like this?

Zombie Survivalism actually.

 

[Matariki]

Here is the scenario...

The world has collapsed due to an energy crisis. The oil ran out and our petroleum based society crumbled within a few years. Suddenly we no longer have the gas to run our cars, the pesticides to protect our crops, the plastics that form the basis for our technological infrastructure. Humanity is reduced back to the 1700s and even simple things like antibiotics are hard to come by. People who use to have high minded professions like Wall Street brokers, lawyers, social workers, scientists, etc. now have a useless skill set because society can no longer support their endeavors. Only the most practical skills like farming are in high demand.

What do you think would be the top in demand 10 skills in this new world?

Herbalists
Doctors (includes those of advanced medical studies)
Bushcrafters/Bushmen
Inventors
Engineers
Law enforcers (police, military etc.)
Farmers
Teachers
Authors (to write and record down information)
Pharmacists

Would you be able to adapt and to survive?

Yes.

Would this world form a new order or would it descend into violence, chaos, and anarchy?

Not sure.

What profession do you see yourself taking in this new world?

Arts and Film,
However I would spend more time learning foreign languages and Bushcraft skills.

 

[testing]

You were in the Girl Guides obviously, not the Scouts.

Well, here, they call it Girl Scouts. But back in my day, anyway, people must've completely misunderstood the definition of the term "scouting", because there was not much of that involved. There was, however, a very nice trip to Savannah, GA involved, and making good spaghetti sauce is a useful skill if civilization has not collapsed.

I also tagged along with my older brothers' Boy Scout troops, and let me tell you: they are two totally different experiences.

 

[Stu]

science

1, Water purification
2, sewage waste engineers.
3, city wide plumbing skills
4, full medical doctor education
5, Advanced mechanical engineering
6, Biologists
7, metallurgy
8, Mining
9, Farming
10, Brewing (we are gonna need beer)

 

[Billy]

I just find it funny that everyone is saying what jobs will be needed but you're all missing the most important job, who is going to sit at the top and manage/control all these peoples?

 

[Stu]

anybody but Billy

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous
collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives
in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,
[angels sing]
her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur
from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,
Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony.

 

[Billy]

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous
collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives
in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,
[angels sing]
her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur
from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,
Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony.

You didn't answer the question, that you don't see a need for leadership in a time when it will obviously be needed shows that you didn't consider the question seriously enough. That or you specifically left the leadership role out because you think humans don't need to be lead, in which case you don't understand human nature.

Sick quote by the way love monty python one of the only worthwhile things to come out of British Television.

 

[Stu]

What about "Father Ted"

 

[Billy]

Never heard of.

 

[enigma]

First thing you need is someone to figure out a better source of energy. I think a few nuclear physicists would come in handy for that.

In the meantime, you'll probably need people like:
Metalworkers/smelters/glassblowers... people who can create and retool all the things we use to make tools, etc.

Strategic Planning
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering

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[enfp can be shy]

Found amusing:

Linguistics
Stealth Rogues

Midwives

Populism, oration, passion

2. Librarians (they know how to find the knowledge, and where)
9. Small town leaders/judges

5. Ability to love - Otherwise you may go mad and ruin your chances of survival)

6) preaching

Authors (to write and record down information)

10, Brewing (we are gonna need beer)

And all the military / militia references... As if the most important survival skill is to smash someone's head.

 

[Ecton]

0) hunting
1) seed agriculture ( a lost art )
2) animal husbandry
3) knives, clubs and bow/arrow
4) lumberjacking and carpentry and wheelwriting
5) trapping/tanning
6) blacksmithing
7) haggling
8) minor surgery
9) sociopathy

 

[Artisan]

Here is the scenario...

The world has collapsed due to an energy crisis. The oil ran out and our petroleum based society crumbled within a few years. Suddenly we no longer have the gas to run our cars, the pesticides to protect our crops, the plastics that form the basis for our technological infrastructure. Humanity is reduced back to the 1700s and even simple things like antibiotics are hard to come by. People who use to have high minded professions like Wall Street brokers, lawyers, social workers, scientists, etc. now have a useless skill set because society can no longer support their endeavors. Only the most practical skills like farming are in high demand.

What do you think would be the top in demand 10 skills in this new world?

- Farmers (Both vegitation wise and animal wise. There is a food shortage as is, imagine after a collapse when accountants try to hunt through trapping...)
- Carpenters
- Tanners
- Smiths
- Doctors (practical ones like the ones from doctors without borders that are qualified to do surgeries and a ton of other procedures normally reserved for specialists)
- Hookers (oldest profession in the world.)
- Fishermen
- Soldiers (There are bound to be wars between all the new groups out there)
- Woodcutters
- Miners

Would you be able to adapt and to survive?

Yes.

Would this world form a new order or would it descend into violence, chaos, and anarchy?

At first, pandemonium, later it will end in kingdoms, empires, larger empires like Nato etc facing each other and eventually larger and larger like planetary, solar system all the way to galactic empires, universe and possibility multiverse based empires.

What profession do you see yourself taking in this new world?

Assuming the local ruling party will not take from me what I own...

- Farmer (vegetation / orchard based with a couple of chicken and a workhorse or two)
- Woodcutter
- Carpenter (Japanese style without nails)
- Smithing

I just find it funny that everyone is saying what jobs will be needed but you're all missing the most important job, who is going to sit at the top and manage/control all these peoples?

That is not a job in high demand. Besides, do those frontier type folk in Alaska who live in the middle of nowhere need the government? I'm pretty sure they wont even notice a collapse until the trains and planes with special equipment and fuel stop coming or when their satellite phones fail to reach someone... As it is such folk tend to try to become fully self sufficient already, they have to. They don't need the government at all ;p That job you're talking about is more like: Bandit leader / Conqueror in job description rather than necessary important leader. I do believe a need for Lawmen/soldiers though, there needs to be some security against large groups, though most rural folk got plenty of guns and weapons about and already have an us vs them attitude, so most rural folk will go frontiers justice pretty quick against city folk ruining and thieving from their land ;p They'd likely form militias rather quickly.

 

[writerinchief]

The world has collapsed due to an energy crisis. The oil ran out and our petroleum based society crumbled within a few years. Suddenly we no longer have the gas to run our cars, the pesticides to protect our crops, the plastics that form the basis for our technological infrastructure. Humanity is reduced back to the 1700s and even simple things like antibiotics are hard to come by.

A dystopian novel in the making. I'm game!

What do you think would be the top in demand 10 skills in this new world?

In no particular order:

Botanical Medicine
Mechanical Engineering
Inorganic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Metallurgy

Physical Fitness

Leadership
Diplomacy
Strategic Thinking
Problem Solving

Would you be able to adapt and to survive?

Physically, yes. Mentally, yes. Emotionally? I don't know how my emotions will interact with each other, sorry.

Would this world form a new order or would it descend into violence, chaos, and anarchy?

There'd definitely be chaos at first, and probably a war that would destroy a sizable proportion of our population, since countries would be grappling for whatever remaining natural resources would be left.

What profession do you see yourself taking in this new world?

I'd probably become an engineer and try to rebuild some of the infrastructure of society. Later, if the society stabilized in my lifetime, I would start publishing a newspaper to communicate among settlements.