What Skills Can You Offer ?

[diamond lil]

Janso -what made you study that in particular ? Nosy minds want to know !

[Alley]

Childcare
Teaching age 4 -8
Vet nursing
Did CPR once while people stood around doing nothing. Someone shook my hand and I felt it was undeserved. I just thought it was sad they didn't know what to do.
Horse care/riding
Can get up and down a rope
Generally: calm in emergencies, competent with tools; good with people

[janso]

Even Tom Hanks' "Chuck Noland" had his "Wilson" to keep him a little bit more sane.

There you go - prime example!!

Lil, studied it for some research on rescue management and search and rescue planning. Very nearly went 'down south' with the British Antarctic Survey a while back for work/ practical study - lectures on isolation down there are standard!! Seeing its effects in yourself and others stops people wandering out a door and into the deep freeze!

If youre interested, theres some good materials out there in specific books on survival psychology. Its been studied for a few years now covering vietnam POW's, survivors of both wars, Lockerbie survivors are interesting and the unfortunate rescue personnel finding bodyparts, etc, cases of PTSD. Even now with the natural disasters booming, its starting to gain more momentum.

[diamond lil]

No, I'm not interested in that, just in why a person would be interested. if you follow me I read a book that had some stuff in it re unusual things experienced by people in the Antarctic research stations though....

[ro2935]

I am a old school nurse, I dont need digital equipment to take your temprature, bloodpressure or pulse, I can also set up a drip, people would be surprised how many nurses dont know how to do this, without electricity most of the batery powered equipment would soon be useless and the majority of nurses are not taught on old equipment. I can lay out the dead
I can cook, sew, crochet and knit.
I have an intrest in aromatherapy, have some training as a counsellor.
Children think I am amussing and I have good people skills with those who have learning dissabilities.
I know nothing about guns. But I can make bread that is so hard it can be considered a weapon or a brick to build a house.
There is much I need to learn

[diamond lil]

So when we form our survivalist commune, you can be Matron/Nit Nurse/Undertaker and Brick Maker !

[SW_pheonix]

Im not advertising my skillset on an open forum.

All i'll say is I won't be needing much help.

Not even with managing your own mental state after a few months of isolation?? I'm not knocking you but hey, skill sets aren't a gauge of what equipment you have stashed are they? I really dont think any of us would cope without our natural instinct to find companionship or contact with our race.....

Some skills will give away what you have. For example saying you are a plumber generally says you have a Van/house/garage full of tools, copper pipe and various other goodies that can be used for survival.
So listing skills or hobbies in one place could give a nice shopping list for someone in the same way as letting people know you have a food store. Of course they need to know where you are, but that can be narrowed down with a bit of data mining.

[the-gnole]

For example saying you are a plumber generally says you have a Van/house/garage full of tools, copper pipe and various other goodies that can be used for survival.

I'm a plumber and don't have any of that, I use the crappy van the Company I work for supplies, a few hand tools, no tubing, no garage full of tools or various other goodies.

[SW_pheonix]

I'm a plumber and don't have any of that, I use the crappy van the Company I work for supplies, a few hand tools, no tubing, no garage full of tools or various other goodies.

ok, I believe you

Although the average spanner monkey's garage has got much tidyer since the scrappies started forking out mega bucks

[the-gnole]

At £4200+ per tonne of brazing copper the stuff doesn't stay on the floor very long

Electrical cable is better though, closer to £5000/tonne