Career Choice in SHTF World

**hunter63** · 05-12-2016, 10:29 PM

Sound like we all gonna need to stash more 9mm?

**WalkingTree** · 05-12-2016, 11:50 PM

The collapse...I hope there's coffee there.

**kyratshooter** · 05-13-2016, 12:09 AM

I have a big 36 cup coffee pot for the campfire.

I'm opening a coffee shop.

**crashdive123** · 05-13-2016, 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by WalkingTree

The collapse...I hope there's coffee there.

There are a few of us that will ALWAYS have coffee. You'd understand if you attend one of our Jamborees.

**Manwithnoname** · 05-13-2016, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by kyratshooter

I have a big 36 cup coffee pot for the campfire.

I'm opening a coffee shop.

Hey, Starbucks will get wiped out and give real coffee shops a chance again. Awesome, bring it on

**Rick** · 05-13-2016, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by Lowkey

Is the world reduced once again to primordial slime?

That would be okay as long as they don't have some yappy dog. Primordial slime has never caused me any problems personally. Live and let live is my motto.

**finallyME** · 05-13-2016, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by LowKey

I plan on being at ground zero.
No desire here to rebuild civilization.
Certainly not this one.
But it's all we have, so going with it for the moment.
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Prepping for the fall of civilization as described in Revelations? I suppose it depends on when you interpret The Rapture will occur and whether or not you plan on being caught up in it.

Otherwise it sounds like a whole lot of trying not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But then what?
Is the world reduced once again to primordial slime? Or is there some vestige of mankind left on earth? Or do all those called to Heaven during The Rapture return to Earth and rebuild? What are they going to rebuild? Are the items stored in the many caches (that members here seem to have) going to be useful? Necessary? Or appropriate?
Interesting survival dilemma in the true meaning of "post-apocalyptic world."

The only reason I brought up Revelations was to say that "something" is going to happen. Everyone reads it differently with their own interpretations. Being that this site has restrictions on religious discussion, there is no need to go into details. There are plenty of other websites and forums that are survival related and have a religious section. You can always go talk about the details there.

If you don't believe in the Bible at all.... that's fine. (I am not specifically addressing this to you lowkey, just anyone actually reading what I write) My main point is that if you prepare for the real threats that are generally local, you will probably be prepared for anything that is much bigger, if it so happens to take place. Are you prepared to leave home and drive a while to the next county or state to get away from a hurricane or forest fire or biological spill? Can you hunker down in a snow storm that cuts out all power to your area? Are you prepared for an earthquake? Do you have a buffer to feed your family if you loose a job? Most everyone is saying the same thing here... prepare for the things that will happen. And, I am adding that if you do, you will be prepared for something that probably won't happen as well.

**WalkingTree** · 05-13-2016, 09:29 AM

I might still be in trouble...I'll almost only drink Columbian coffee. If it ain't Columbian...I might try it, and like it, but it certainly can't be a 'regular generic blend' with no character.

I plan on being at ground zero.

I was kinda wondering about this. What's this particular part mean?

**crashdive123** · 05-13-2016, 03:52 PM

It means.....if its going to be the end of the world, may as well get it over with quickly.

**Rick** · 05-13-2016, 07:25 PM

I thought that was the extra fine grind of coffee beans. 3 is coarse and ground zero is extra fine. No?

**hunter63** · 05-13-2016, 07:46 PM

That's what I thought......
I am a #1 grind myself.....but if it was "THE Ground Zero"....We wouldn't need coffee anyway...Right?....or a Job?

Personally I would rather have a "Position" than an occupation or job.

**LowKey** · 05-13-2016, 08:50 PM

I only have one of those grind-it-til-you-like-it type of coffee grinders. The grind varies by how much I'm paying attention. Of course, it's electric. Would be using a hammer in the post apocolypse.

Growing up, there were always those maps around showing targets the Russians would hit if it came to Thermo-Nuclear war. Those ones with the concentric rings showing likely days of survival and all of the overlaps. Sort of lent a fatalistic attitude toward life in the aftermath in the case of something like that. Now the other map, the one that showed the blast zone of the local gas storage facility? That was something that could be avoided. Something like that is a bug-out situation.

**hunter63** · 05-13-2016, 08:57 PM

We have a shuttered Nuke plant in Zion Il......on Lake Michigan...been shuttered for a while now....but we had those maps with the rings on it,... in the paper once a year.....an WHOOP'S Map.....

We were/are in the 4th ring....the KYAG (Kiss Your A$$ Goodbye) in a day or so ring.

**WalkingTree** · 05-13-2016, 10:01 PM

Wouldn't ground zero coffee just be instant coffee? No brewing required?

**crashdive123** · 05-14-2016, 06:29 AM

Now that right there is funny, I don't care who you are.

**blackthorne** · 05-25-2016, 02:37 AM

As for me, im going to be a main battle tank mechanic, end of the worid doesn't mean a thing if ya gotta a tank!

**DOGMAN** · 05-25-2016, 12:17 PM

Probably "Karate instructor "....I figure folks will want to learn martial arts, I've got some books, videos and magazines and I'd put together a little dojo in the woods and teach people to defend themselves