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Garrett / G66
Garrett / G66

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What's your non-internet career alternative?

Q: If you, like me, make your income via the internet (not just through something like ecommerce or Patreon...but also like a day job that is internet related), and the internet were to go away tomorrow, what other skills do you have to make a living?

I don't know if I have any, and that disappoints me.

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Cécile Lebleu

Food! I love cooking. I could pretty ”easily” make my own business making pizza and bread, I’m really good at it. I also love making ramen and soup in general.
I say easily as in, I don’t have the funds or location or time, but if I decided to go for it, i do have the talent. I make pretty damn good pizza, and I know the logic of how to build a pizza oven so I could even start from scratch — literally.

If the internet crashed tomorrow, after surviving the global panic that would follow, I’d have a restaurant about bread, soup, and pizza. Oh and it would be history themed. Maybe medieval or Ancient Greek. I don’t know, I also love history hehe

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Garrett / G66

This is a fantastic answer!

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Shawn McElroy

I want a medieval themed place like blast pizza to go to now. It would have to be friendly for people wanting to play d&d games there too lol.

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Garrett / G66

They just put a Blast Pizza in across from my neighborhood. Is it any good?

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Shawn McElroy

Yea the one here at least is pretty good. Better than a lot of the other pizza places

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dsanchezseco

An Internet Pizza restaurant... oh wait

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Luke Westby

I’d probably see what sort of work I could get in solar or wind energy. Anything from installing solar panels to working on the embedded systems that operate the equipment.

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Garrett / G66

Great answer! I read recently that solar panel installation is one of the most in-demand jobs right now. In-demand as in: they need people to do it.

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Kevin K. Johnson

Psychology. The brain is as much a puzzle as any program.

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Garrett / G66

Sometimes I wonder which I understand less.

Great idea!

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Jordan Kicklighter

I'd likely try to find some sort of music performance gig

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Garrett / G66

Ah yes fantastic! I always think of my music needing the internet to succeed but, honestly, I probably don't. Thank you for the comment and idea!

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Jan Schröder

These days, I'd put my money on performances to make a living as an artist. Scarcity and so on.

That's why I gave up on that, because I found it incompatible with my idea of family, but that was my personal choice.

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Garrett / G66

You're absolutely right.

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Amanda Iaria

Becoming an artist. I've been very close to saying f-it and just becoming a hermit living in the woods drawing/painting.

However ...

There's that money issue.

Anyway - In the beginning, I really wanted to go into Physics, but my writing was really really really bad and didn't learn how to write properly till college (which is what kept me out of those schools). I still have some issue with it, but I can look back the last few years and see an improvement.

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Garrett / G66

I've been very close to saying f-it and just becoming a hermit living in the woods drawing/painting.

I feel this, so hard. Those thoughts are actually what brought me to starting this discussion.

Great ideas!

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Talor Anderson

I feel this one. In high school I developed a love for web design, which got me studying computer science. I nearly went the other direction and studied graphic design, but I also was concerned about making a career / stable income.

It's always good to hear that I'm not alone in having these worries.

In time I've realized I love drawing and creating in my free time, and not having the pressure of creating art / designing for money probably makes it more enjoyable for me overall.

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Charisse

In time I've realized I love drawing and creating in my free time, and not having the pressure of creating art / designing for money probably makes it more enjoyable for me overall.

This is how I view making art as well.

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Garrett / G66

I think I would become a Buddhist monk, to be honest.

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Jan Schröder • Edited

As a dev@35 career changer I can fall back onto the following work experiences if computers where to suddenly go away:

  • retail
  • bartending/service
  • event managment
  • audio engineering
  • sound design
  • recording artist
  • courier / personal transport
  • language teaching
  • learning coach
  • dog/cat sitter

Though, since I have done all those I would most likely open a coffee shop somewhere in downtown in a small corner and serve some niche gourmet espresso. OR, depending on the state of the world at large, open said coffee shop at some beach and ad a stand up paddling rental to the mix.

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Garrett / G66

courier / personal transport

If the internet goes out forever, we'll definitely need to bike USB drives around town all the time!

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Jan Schröder

Hah, I just canceled my metro subscription to justify buying a new bike. Now I am commuting by bike 13km one way and loving it, so bike courier would be a part time option too.

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André Jacques

I would take some stuff, put it into a backpack, and walk.

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Garrett / G66

That sounds beautiful

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Aaron McQuade

ski bum.

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Garrett / G66

Haha that’s great

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Champi

I think I wouldn't exist without internet😅

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Garrett / G66

Yikes

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