That's an impressive brainstorm of occupations for the future. I like your teachers; they remind me of the travelling teachers in Terry Pratchet's "Wee Free Men." Seems like a good model for education as the population drops.
I was actually thinking of skills/trades that could be used now. Either DIY skills that make us more resilient or trade skills a young person might consider as a career. I did another post Skills for the Long Descent that got some other good comments here: https://claire-58.dreamwidth.org/4578.html
Cobblers. Did you see the discussion of shoes on the current Fugal Friday? We'll need cobblers and durable repairable shoes in the future but we need durable shoes now and the skills to repair our own. The last shoe repair shop here closed during covid.
Charcoal making is an interesting one. There are some Youtubers showing how to make biochar in ordinary household wood stoves. We tried it in our masonry stove and it works great. Charcoal making in the future might look very different than it did in the past. It maybe more of a sideline for people on the outskirts of towns and cities than a separate trade.
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Re: Shopping list...?
Date: 2024-06-30 01:18 pm (UTC)I was actually thinking of skills/trades that could be used now. Either DIY skills that make us more resilient or trade skills a young person might consider as a career. I did another post Skills for the Long Descent that got some other good comments here:
https://claire-58.dreamwidth.org/4578.html
Cobblers. Did you see the discussion of shoes on the current Fugal Friday? We'll need cobblers and durable repairable shoes in the future but we need durable shoes now and the skills to repair our own. The last shoe repair shop here closed during covid.
Charcoal making is an interesting one. There are some Youtubers showing how to make biochar in ordinary household wood stoves. We tried it in our masonry stove and it works great. Charcoal making in the future might look very different than it did in the past. It maybe more of a sideline for people on the outskirts of towns and cities than a separate trade.