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Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful?

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-disenfranchised dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Young people, when choosing a profession, are often told to 'do what you love.' That's why we have experts in such abstruse fields as medieval gymel. But let's talk hypotheticals: if there's a worldwide catastrophe in which civilization is interrupted, somebody specializing in gymel wouldn't provide much use to fellow survivors. In a post-apocalypse world, medical doctors would be useful, as would most scientists and engineers. The bad news for Slashdotters is that decades without computers would render computer science and related professions useless. What do you consider to be the most useful and mostly useless post-apocalypse professions? How long would it take for society to rebuild enough for your profession to be useful?"

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  1. Medical doctor by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What good would a medical doctor be without CAT,X-Ray,IRM, Ultrasound, antibiotics or vaccines?
    Go homeopathic?

    1. Re:Medical doctor by msmonroe · · Score: -1, Troll

      What good would a medical doctor be without CAT,X-Ray,IRM, Ultrasound, antibiotics or vaccines? Go homeopathic?

      a new study claims that 98% of the time doctors never run any of those tests but bill for them anyway. They also claim the something like 95% of the medicines they handout are actually inactive or contain sub MED (Minimum Effective Dose)! Bottom line doctors don't need them!

  2. Re:down to a "T" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, being a man involves more than just fucking (in fact, that's pretty much a woman's area of expertise). It means doing all the things women can't do well, which is to say pretty much everything useful from obtaining food/shelter/raw materials for clothing to building things to make everyone's life better.