Maybe forego the high-end construction jobs and move east of the Cascades where human life is still respected (and climate is dry)? We actually have plenty of construction jobs also.
I am 100% on my own, no close relatives and very few distant, no assets that would make me valuable to the goverment or anyone else so I feel like a prime target for deathcare
If a real organized civil war that has a chance at all starts I will sacrifice all, but I am NOT by any stretch a lonewolf idiot
the system is what it is, just have to learn how to survive and enjoy Gods gifts