Hypothetical. High altitude EMPs knock out global infrastructure. What's your fallback career?

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I’ve thought about this. Basically I’d be screwed. Lol
Of course if that actually happened, I think careers would be the least of our worries, considering the global food and fuel shortages. Almost all of our tools today are electronic in some fashion.

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Door-to-door Faraday cage salesperson.

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New careers would come out of the push to rebuild and redesign said infrastructure, we wouldn't necessarily be thrust back to the bronze age, tech is here to stay.

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Building a car from nothing is a far different under taking than putting together a road legal car made from donors and parts at a local pick-n-pull. Even if this theoretical EMP rendered everything unusable, the technology and knowledge base won't disappear.

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I read a novel about this scenario that shared a pretty messed up world, so I do think about this periodically. Hadn’t thought about the career part, but it did make me glad no one in our family is diabetic. That is a very good question. Probably woodworking.

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See, new careers opening up in this thread even, who would have thought that cannibal rapist hunter would become a thing.

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Realistically, probably just die as others said. What I would try to do though is become a butcher. Procure animals, process and preserve them sans refrigeration, trade the meat for other things. That’s about all I am good at doing with my hands without electronics. Or I could actually use my engineering degree and try to help rebuild, but that just doesn’t feel too terribly appealing.

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Man I think about this more than I should and I still don't have an answer. I'd like to think I won't die though. Maybe create some kind of co-op where all of us forage for food together and help build infrastructure again? Gotta think about this some more

I’m pretty sure I’d be murdered and eaten shortly after the event.

Gun collector?

Cannibal rapist.

That's not very Ohana of you

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