[Narz]

Inspired by Whipped&Blistered.

Anyway, tell me what you do and what you imagine you'll be doing. Also, how do you feel about what you're doing now and what is your plan for the transition?

Right now I'm planting trees (tons of berry trees, some walnut trees, shade trees, etc.) and a vegetable garden on a 60 acre plot of land for a woman who currently runs a bed & breakfast. She wants to eventually start some kind of sustainable living retreat there. My girlfriend is working here @ at the bed & breakfast cleaning rooms.

10 years from now, I have no idea right yet.

[Specop_007]

Right now I build networks.

In 10 years...Shit....I'm just trying to get through this thing called life 1 week at a time.

Next week I'll be building networks. Not sure about after that though.

[truecougarblue]

I run the engineering dept. of a biotech company and I'm a part time rancher. I hope to be mostly retired and preponderantly self sufficient in 10 years which for me means the time to work on any number of hair brained schemes.

[strider3700]

Right now I write code for taxing purposes for a doomed industry. It pays the bills but is a waste of time other then that.

10 years from now I really hope to be set up on a small spread attempting to grow food successfully. I doubt I have the time to get enough funds for that so I have no idea. Maybe I'll be hunting for a small spread to take over and grow food on.

[I_Like_Plants]

I buy and sell high tech detritus. I'm a glorified junk dealer - no, wait, junk dealers are cooler (thinking of Sanford and Son).

10 years from now, who knows. Maybe this, maybe different types of junk, maybe building useful things like shoes or weapons or solar ovens or water stills or all of those things.

[Evltre]

hmmmmm ten years from now I'll hopefully be a teacher. If I can't be one in an "official school" with a wage, then I'll probably be teaching my own children (and maybe some of the other local kids) in the fine arts of spinning, weaving, knitting, preserving and cooking.

Or maybe by then the cost of importing cheap Chinese made baby clothes will have increased by so much that there will be a local market for my beautiful homemade stuff (from sheep to spinning, to knitting, to dyeing) and I'll be able to have a little supplementary income from them!

Also, I've taken up "recycling" of clothes (ala great depression) and been having great fun making little clothes out of big ones. It's amazing how many toddler shoes/slippers you can make out of the felted arm of one adults knitted wool jumper! Or nappy covers made from felted knitwear (called "bum sweaters"). I've been wondering how many potatoes one would be worth! There is already a little demand starting up for them with the local interest in cloth nappies growing, and because they are interesting, "green" and actually very practical (you can lanolize them for "waterproofness".

I'm working on being as practical and creative in the reuse of goods as possible - there is a load of "stuff" already here and ready for use, all you have to do is know what to do with it.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Right now I have two jobs. I work in a building supply company and for a gov't contracted employment agency for people on welfare.

For the future... I have two possibilities for getting in on bio-diesel concerns and a friend who is looking at getting an electric car/moped dealership in town, who wants me to think about doing the mechanical repairs for her.

Other than that I'd like to be a part time farmer and raise chickens.

[Curator]

I teach fairly high-level vocational education to displaced housewives and former gangbangers.

In ten years I hope to be a housewife, and possibly a gangbanger, depending on the circumstances.

[Baldwin]

Possibly being ordained...

[perdition79]

I'm a truck driver in the fertilizer industry; easy job, decent pay, good job security (people need food and ethanol) and allows time for other jobs: I detail cars once in a while, do some occasional gunsmithing for money, build computer systems, and do the occasional oil change or brake job.

In 10 years -- if I don't flee the country in the next couple years -- I see myself living right near the truck terminal, probably be one of the last people who gets to drive in America. After all, in 10 years, farmers will need phosphate fertilizer for all that ethanol and (to a much lesser extent by then) food crops.

[Prince]

I absolutely 100% hate what I do. I work in the software industry. I hate it with a passion. The money is decent, but this is a dying market (even without peak oil), and not a day passes where I think and wish I could go back to 1996 and do things all over again. Unless I find a flying DeLorean, I don't see myself going back and living life over again, so I've been pursuing other options--albeit, unsuccessfully so far. I figure I have 2 years tops at my current company before I get laid off, so I'm hoping to find a passion in the next 6-18 months.

As far as 10 years from now, I have NO idea what I'll be doing. I can't imagine the software industry employing the same number of people in the US that it currently employs (peak oil or not), so I doubt I'll be doing that, even if I wanted to. I really want to work in federal law enforcement, but those jobs are nearly impossible to get right now due to budget cutbacks and hiring freezes. If I had applied 3 years ago, I'd almost definitely had a job. Story of my life--right place, just wrong time. If the economy miraculously doesn't come to a gnawing crawl in the coming years, then I'd probably go back to school for nursing, MBA, or something. But I doubt this will happen, given the future I see for us. I've thought about starting my own company, but again not sure what I'd do, especially since my talents are in info tech, and I'm trying to get out of that.

Anyway, for now I need to get some sleep so I can wake up and go to my shitty job tomorrow.

[I_Like_Plants]

Prince there are a lot of people in your situation here in silicon valley - hate IT with a passion and wonder each day when their job will be gone. In which case, it's hard to find anything paying more than $10 an hour out here.

Myself, I'm trying to find something I actually like to do, at least as a side thing to do on weekends, that can bring in some money or some feeling of non-hopelessness.

[lys3rg0]

I was about to be a programmer, but i stopped about midway through college to rethink my priorities. Anything related to human vices will exist way into the future... so now i'm in the sports betting industry, making a lot more money than i would have been had i pursued my software interrests. 10 yrs from now, i'll be living off the grid. Don't know what i'll be doing.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Prince', 'I') absolutely 100% hate what I do. I work in the software industry. I hate it with a passion. The money is decent, but this is a dying market (even without peak oil), and not a day passes where I think and wish I could go back to 1996 and do things all over again. Unless I find a flying DeLorean, I don't see myself going back and living life over again, so I've been pursuing other options--albeit, unsuccessfully so far. I figure I have 2 years tops at my current company before I get laid off, so I'm hoping to find a passion in the next 6-18 months.

As far as 10 years from now, I have NO idea what I'll be doing. I can't imagine the software industry employing the same number of people in the US that it currently employs (peak oil or not), so I doubt I'll be doing that, even if I wanted to. I really want to work in federal law enforcement, but those jobs are nearly impossible to get right now due to budget cutbacks and hiring freezes. If I had applied 3 years ago, I'd almost definitely had a job. Story of my life--right place, just wrong time. If the economy miraculously doesn't come to a gnawing crawl in the coming years, then I'd probably go back to school for nursing, MBA, or something. But I doubt this will happen, given the future I see for us. I've thought about starting my own company, but again not sure what I'd do, especially since my talents are in info tech, and I'm trying to get out of that.

Anyway, for now I need to get some sleep so I can wake up and go to my shitty job tomorrow.

[Newsseeker]

I am a student right now interning for a legal clinic. I hope to be a paralegal or a lawyer ten years from now if there are still jobs.

[Aaron]

I'm a career technologist.

As transport fuels become more expensive, the role of distributed technology systems will expand to that same extent, as technology replaces expensive travel in business.

Profit!

I'm also now the General Manager of a Yacht Brokerage (Family Business) with expertise in large sailboats.

http://www.ronsyachts.com

Additionally I'm an expert on global energy markets, a public speaker & educator.

In 10 years I'll be Prefect Aaron, roaming the countryside with my merry band of Reapers.

Now accepting applications.

An equal opportunity employer.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'I')n 10 years I'll be Prefect Aaron, roaming the countryside with my merry band of Reapers.

Now accepting applications.

An equal opportunity employer.

[Narz]

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Here... Read: "The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss"

Amazon LINK

[Lore]

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Here... Read: "The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss"

Amazon LINK

[basil_hayden]

I play with dirt now (geologist) and I'll play with dirt later (farming).

Easy transition. Not smarter, just practical.