A couple of years ago I left a job. I just up and left. I had a skill that I could use to make a small business. I perform and function and create a product that is specialized. I’ve grown the business from a hobby to a six figure income.
My brother, also a senior production manager, lost his job about a year later. He looked for work like a fiend. I collected. Eight months later he finally found a job that paid him less.
Learn a skill. Even if it is for a hobby. You never know when you can lean on that skill to buy food for your family. No kidding. Make something. You wont be sorry.
That’s what my husband said. Even if I do a job that is a good paycheck, learn a skill that requires no electricity, no internet, just a valuable trade for trade skill.
I chose cooking. You would be surprised how many people cannot cook from scratch. I mean bake bread, cook dried beans, etc.. from scratch. And I have made myself practice over a fire in our pit just to see how to if we ever got in a bad predicament. I know it isn’t a very good skill, but someone will need to know how to do more than open a can or microwave a Lean Cuisine if we ever DO actually get back into a real Depression. Granted, the older folks know how, but people even my age (late thirties) don’t know how to cook other than a few box recipes. I was kind of surprised.
I even had a friend ask me what I was doing when I was cutting up a chicken. Not some butchering, just taking a whole chicken and cutting it into fryer pieces like they used to do before you could buy them pre-cut. It’s cheaper to buy it that way and cut it yourself. She was shocked I knew how to do it. That seemed weird to me.
“Truer words”, as they say.I have made a life out of being able to adapt by honing my skills.I’m working right now, when many of my friends with educations and no skills are in the unemployment line.