Doctor Who
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Stay in school!
Ahhhh ha!!! Yes this is the answer to your question. Listen the economy will not get better, that is wishful and hopeful thinking and hope is not a strategy, don't be a sheep. While many will disagree with me I have been studying this for years and we are witnessing a rare event, a paradigm shift with few being able to comprehend what we're witnessing. Please read up on Peak Oil and how it will affect agriculture and your future. A good site for prepping is the Oil Drum, also energy bullentin, and also Life after the crash.. Just Google them all. You are literally witnessing a global crash based on simple constraints of energy, learn about it for yourself and prepare before its too late. We won't recover. IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I would buy organic land, Farm organically, learn some useful skills that we lost so many generations ago like digging wells and such. i would raise a few key livestock, build a green house, and learn other pioneer and lifeskills. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SECURE AND RELIABLE WATER SOURCE. Learn to hunt and prepare game. learn fermentation and how to have a root cellar. learn what we have forgotten.
I have a higher degree, from a respected school in Boston, have travelled and worked abroad for ten years. traveling and working abroad we're my best education. If you chose to go, go because of the experience,not because it will make you wealthy, it probably want.
And if you really want to know and have the fortitude to learn: Listen to this series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
(8 parts) i would listen to them all, very boring but the answers are here. i wish someone would have done this for me.
Also this: http://www.chrismartenson.com/
Do the section called crash course.
People will call me crazy. but believe i have worked in alternative energy, and farmed, i know what I'm talking about, but please READ and study for yourself, listen to no one including and get your own understanding. WHAT I GAVE YOU ABOVE I WISH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR ME YEARS AGO! ALTHOUGH I WOULDN'T HAVE LISTENED PROBABLY. I hope you are smarter than I was then and read all the suggestions above. It will all make sense and come together. Good luck!!!!
excellent post bushmasta, I couldn't agree more! We are like all slaves to the system, some better or worse paid slaves but all slaves nonetheless- to capitalism, consumerism, and frivolous mindless over-consumption that is trashing our planet . I'm looking for an alternative too, let me know if you find one! We need a system that rewards kindness and people helping others and penalizes selfishness. People that help the homeless and do other selfless acts should be rewarded. We need an alternative to money and have technology (robots, androids, and so on) do the tedious, trivial or monotonous tasks while we are free to pursue whatever we are best at, and what we want to do most (as long as it is something that society needs and you are giving back), free of the slavery of supply and demand.
...... What's still valuable are the practical, abstract skills that education can provide (beware Humanities majors)