Practical Skills That People Once Knew by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog
Here is a list of practical skills that more people knew ‘back in the day’, compared with today.
(updated to include many of your prior comments below)
Technical schools, trade schools, apprenticeships, journeyman, etc… used to be much more popular. It was pretty common for many young adults just out of high school going on into various trades.
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Today however it’s almost expected that every high school graduate must go on to ‘academia’ in order to ‘succeed’ in life. Although lots has changed over the years, I do wish that more young adults would explore the trades. Similarly, I wish that we in the USA made – manufactured – more ‘stuff’ like we used to. The country was much more self-reliant back then. But I digress…
While there certainly are people today who posses these skills, I wonder how fewer there may be than days gone by. Many years ago, life (and our jobs) required that we posses more hands-on and practical skills than required of us today.
It seems to me that for decades now – far fewer kids are being taught the practical skills which would better help them make it on their own in a more self-reliant way than today. We have evolved into a modern and dependent society – one which would be in deep doo-doo if the SHTF, or TEOTWAWKI.
Practical Skills List
This list could be endless, given enough time to think about it – but I’ve noted some practical skills which crossed my mind as I wrote this.
Some of these could be a career. Others, just good practical skills to know. Still others, maybe hobbies.
Even though we live in a modern world requiring little or no traditional practical skills to survive, I sure do recommend learning a few of them. It makes you a better person (e.g. more self-reliant and independent), and some of this is great for general preparedness.
