by jaakkeli » Wed 16 Mar 2005, 09:59:44
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob_Reloaded', 'I') think I'm fucked, but not as bad as most. Several decent things in my corner, a few against. I'm kind of fucked.
I don't feel fucked at all. First of all, in a soft-landing scenario I'll do well, as people in my field will be in good demand. At worst, I'll have to give up specializing in general relativity and switch to nuclear physics.
Even in an end-of-industrial-age scenario I'll manage, considering what I will inherit from my parents: a big farm with nice tracts of land and HUGE tracts of forest. Best of all, my family has had a habit of never throwing anything away for generations: there's all the equipment there to resume farming with the centuries-old methods (along with a bunch of now-empty buildings to house farmhands and such, of course), if it comes to that. (It won't, though, as we have so much land per capita in this country that biofuels will easily replace oil for the essential needs. And global warming is only going to help...)