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u/TheAlchemyBetweenUs · 4 pointsr/CollapseSupport

If you do go the law school route, I bet a real estate attorney will be an interesting field while the system holds up. Not sure how much law school costs, but the debt pay off horizon might be shorter than the brochures will tell you. I say it'd be an interesting field because people always need places to live and work, and with real estate in some areas being decimated, capital will flow to other areas.

I feel pulled in a lot of directions too. I'm a chemist, but I manage some real estate, and I dream of being involved with food self-sufficiency. The old ways of specialization being a sure fire path to success are fading. I can't fully comprehend what a full on crisis would do to all the professionals who have no idea how deep the collapse and climate change rabbit hole goes. So having a side gig of resiliency seems like a good idea. And the more ideas that can be tried, the higher our likelihood of hitting on successful ones that fit our changing circumstances.

This book offers sound collapse-aware career advice. There aren't easy answers in it, but it does help us shake off some of the notions that have been drilled into us about education and employment. Congrats on your progress towards your degree, you'll feel great when you get it done, and that will serve you well in any case because it's about finishing what you started and accomplishing what you set out to do.

Your life experiences and awareness of critical issues will set you apart from the crowd, and I hope that serves you well. I hope you do find your way into a leadership position. Even today, you can lead by example in preparing for changes we can reasonably expect.

u/teaisgod · 13 pointsr/CollapseSupport

Have you read The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein? He engages with ideas like this in a way I found really helpful.

u/one-sentence · 3 pointsr/CollapseSupport

I suggest reading "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, which you can read for free at Project Gutenberg or buy the superior Gregory Hays translation.

u/DeWittBrosMeatCo · 5 pointsr/CollapseSupport

I think David Wallace-Wells’ the Uninhabitable Earth does a great job of giving a frank and sober perspective on where we are and how unlikely it is we will escape collapse. Because he works for New York Magazine, it’s a relatively mainstream book (at least compared to John Michael Greer or Derrick Jenson).

https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703/ref=nodl_

u/ILikeNeurons · 2 pointsr/CollapseSupport

You're totally right. In his book, Reclaiming Our Democracy, Sam Daley-Harris talks about choosing just one or two problems that you care about to focus on solving. It doesn't mean you don't also care about other problems, it just means acknowledging that as one person you can't do everything.

I also really liked this podcast from the 80,000 hours project. After listening to it, I switched my Amazon Smile charity to the Center for Election Science, which is a small thing, because I don't buy much stuff, but it's something. That initiative they talk about in Fargo passed by a landslide, and it was mostly run by this one guy who volunteered for it when he wasn't working his full time job. So, one person really can make a difference.

u/AndyTron_McBadass · 1 pointr/CollapseSupport

I recommend reading JG Ballard's "Ecocide" trilogy: The Drowned World, The Drought and The Crystal World. Also worth checking out short stories: The Terminal Beach and The Voices Of Time come to mind.

These books, written 50 years ago, were not only among the first to explore the gross effects of ecological collapse, but we the first to concentrate on the psychological and emotional effects. Not just how we'd cope politically or what detailed strategies would evolve, but how we'd deal with it in our heads. What kind of dreams we'd have when the waking world had itself been transformed into a surreal and nightmarish landscape, how we would think when society was collapsing all around us.

He makes for disturbing reading, and he's certainly not "woke" (Horrible racism in particular abounds in The Drowned World), let alone hopeful in the conventional sense - but there's something in the way his characters accept their new lives that we can use - adopting that detachment and almost Buddhist calm has the potential to save your life.

On a personal note: Even if you don't think your life is worth saving, I guarantee that someone, somewhere, feels otherwise. Even if you haven't met them yet. We have a duty to go on living - partly to others, and partly to our future selves. You can always kill yourself later.