How useless are you?
That exploding star thing reminded me that if push came to shove, I wouldn't be able to look after myself.
If a big disaster happened (not like a flood or ice storm, but a nuclear war or an asteroid hitting) and the few survivors had to start relying on our abilities instead of the grocery store and Enmax to survive, I think I'd die pretty soon. Would you?*
I caught a few fish when I was a kid, but other than that I've never killed anything bigger than an insect (it was a big insect though) so I don't think I'd be much for hunting.
I've never grown a plant let alone tended a garden or grown food.
I've never chopped down a tree though I suppose I could figure that out soon enough, and I've lit about a million campfires in my day so I might be able to keep warm.
I don't think I'd be very valuable to the other survivors. You know that episode of the Simpsons when the comet is coming and they have to decide who is expendable based on their ability to do something constructive in the future -- I think I'd be the first out the door if it came to that. My job is utterly frivolous today and it simply wouldn't exist in this disaster future.
Would your job exist? Can you do anything else to help out if not? Some special skill or vocation that is a necessity in Disaster Time?
*please no one bother with "if there is a nuclear war we'll all be dead..." or some such serious answer. I'm just wasting time here and I know how silly the scenario sounds.
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