After the Zombie apocalypse

The escape thread got me to thinking. What work skills do you have that would translate well into the wasteland that would be the world after the last of the zombies have been sent back to the grave.

As a theatrical electrician, I am not sure any of my work skills would really translate all that well.. but they might come in handy during the apocalypse

I know how to make fermented and distilled beverages. Keep me alive, and I will keep you in beer.

Electronics/computer/networking stuff, good for making sentry bots, auto-turrets and post-apocalypse ad-hoc communication networks. Decent general handyman skills. My auto repair skills aren't as good as most on here but driving skills can only help.

Heinlein said it well: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

I make a damn fine zombiwurst sammich.

I'm a helluva quick learner... that might not help right away, but if i'm alive, I can learn whatever needs to be done.

I can drive a team of horses and shovel E36 M3.

I'm pretty good with wood I've made quite a few bows with hand tools, most with draw weights more than enough to kill a human/zombie/deer/elk etc... I assume said weaponry could be traded for, say, Salanis's beverages. I can shoot them, too, in case we need food.

I am a builder ( so plumbing, carpentry, metal fab, etc )can also do some white and blacksmithing and with a magnet I can start a forge, know how to indoor garden, hand loading, ride horses, raise chickens, cook and I can do neat things with glass.

Making explosives is useful, right? Other than that I can bang together a ghetto but useable vehicle pretty competently. Mostly, I'd probably just hang out killing zombies so Salanis could make beer.

I have a welder. Find me someone with steam powered generator, and we'll build you anything you want.

I think we have enough here for a commune.

Ham radio technician. Straight shooter. Welder. Law enforcer = peace keeper. Salesman = trader with non-GRM communes.

Plumbing, and warehouse skills. Yup. I'll be dead.

Have: I can make things out of metal, repair/rebuild machinery, harness or generate electricity, craft poison gas from household materials, make fire and use an open site rifle with alarmingly good results for a guy with 44yr old eyeballs. I can clean/butcher game if I must. I have power mad dreams filled with mass murder but I think I'd be a benevolent ruler once the "new king sillies" wear off.

Want: Compliance, agriculture and women folk.

Edit: Singles, Feel free to use this as your eHarmony profile!

N Sperlo wrote: Law enforcer = peace keeper

You're a cop? Huh, I always though you were a security guard.

"Expert" level shooting skills in pistol, rifle, and shotgun (if they had a medal for that one) from the military, can weld various steel, drive a boat, fly a plane, drive a truck, get an engine to run on points with a carburetor, make pumps, and most importantly can get engines to run on alcohol. With Salanis and me our combine won't need oil!

I am this guy..

Osterkraut wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: Law enforcer = peace keeper

You're a cop? Huh, I always though you were a security guard.

After the fall of man, titles are of no use. A man who has equipment for cuffing an unruly six year old will be mighty useful, mighty useful indeed.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Osterkraut wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: Law enforcer = peace keeper

You're a cop? Huh, I always though you were a security guard.

After the fall of man, titles are of no use. A man who has equipment for cuffing an unruly six year old will be mighty useful, mighty useful indeed.

I think all of those little monsters need to be in cuffs. Where's that "if I were king" thread?

In reply to Osterkraut:

I'm a guard, but I have full police rights. Yes, I enforce law.

Cole_Trickle wrote: Plumbing, and warehouse skills. Yup. I'll be dead.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with having running water for a commune.

N Sperlo wrote: In reply to Osterkraut: I'm a guard, but I have full police rights. Yes, I enforce law.

Well now, learn something every day. I'll have to stop picturing you as an angry Paul Blart.

Though FULL police rights is a bit of a stretch if you're governed by 17 CSR 20-2.015.

JoeyM wrote:

Cole_Trickle wrote: Plumbing, and warehouse skills. Yup. I'll be dead.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with having running water for a commune.

somebody needs to flush that E36 M3 out of the commune... even the romans recognised that. We can also use you for getting a well going for fresh water

I will teach real science, mathematics, language & art/music to all your childrens. If you feel those aren't critical things for your offspring to know after an apocalypse, feel free to sit back with a nice grass sammich while my tribe builds a utopia. I will not teach them the slightest hint of organized religion or old-style authoritarian/stateist thinking.