• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    As a software engineer I often think about how laughably useless my skillset would be in any kind of survival or societal reset sort of situation.

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      At least you can analyze problems logically and break down complex procedures into small, manageable steps.

      SharePoint admins are really fucked.
      Anyone building a system that’s similar to what they’re used to, in a post-apocalyptic society, would be laughed at, then shot.

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      You’re a software engineer. You at least know the very basics of digital electronics, and can probably work your way backward to rudimentary power supplies.

      You are far from fucked.

      Mathematicians though? Oof I worry about them, if they did anything too practical they’d be physicists.

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      But if you were isekaied at the start of the apocalypse, which, let’s be honest, is more likely than you surviving until post-apocalypse, you could become a monster magician!

      On the other hand, if the apocalypse were Skynet…

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      Yeah I guess? Is that your only skillset though cause I do tech work, but I also do a lot cheap large batch cooking, grow my own produce and can provide immediate first aid and medical care, all of which, I think, makes me pretty useful.

      Plus a minor hobby in botany specifically poisonous plants makes me somewhat useful for what not to eat.

      You are more than just your work.

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      10 months ago

      you would just be able to repurpose the way you think logically into something else. I’d say you would be more ahead than a lot of others in a catastrophic scenario!