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From a long and interesting life, I have skills that I cannot put on a resume. Was a Marksman-level shooter in the USMC back in the day, know how to set up ambushes, can disassemble-clean-reassemble numerous small arms, can cook many different things with the "cookbook" in my head, play several stringed instruments, clean and sober for over 3 decades, no one in my family will play Trivial Pursuit or watch "Jeopardy" with me anymore as I trounce them every time.... the list goes on.
I can sort of play a lot. I own my father's instruments, which he could play well: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, button accordion, and harmonica (with the neck lyre for playing with the guitar). I played a wind instrument in the band and Flutophone in 4th grade. I play a tiny bit on the piano.
I also can cook numerous recipes out of my head, as I helped my mother cooking when I was a child. I can also do the same with canning vegetables for the same reason.
From early training and working on various jobs, I can do some finish carpentry, Fiberglas work as in hulls and other parts of million dollar yachts, operate mechanical electric cash registers, and work on vending machine coin acceptors.
Being older means I've been through a lot, and I actually remember a lot of it. :)
Then you have what is known as "marketable skills"...or at least skills that can be bartered. People who know how to do things won't starve.
People think I'm totally a book-learning type of guy, but I've always watched other people do things and learned everything I can. Back in the old days, I would watch mechanics work on my car to see what they did. I watched a guy work on my heat pump and fix it simply. The next time it had the same problem, I fixed it myself.
I built my greenhouse almost 20 years ago, and it still stands. A guy next door kept saying the lumber was crooked, and the greenhouse wouldn't look right. I told him I was allowing for the crooked lumber by the way I arranged it. When I was done, it looked straight and square. I impressed myself. :)
I helped in the garden when I was a child and can garden today. I already have seeds for this spring and the coming fall. I also have a yard full of edible wild plants. It's a yard, not a lawn. So I'm pretty sure I won't starve.
Sounds like a plan.
Same here on the playing several stringed instruments...I'm my own orchestra.