How to do home maintenance, drywall, basic plumbing, electrical, and basic carpentry.

Brakes, learn how to do the brakes on a car, bonus you learn to change a tire

These things will save you a bunch of money and you will feel less helpless when stuff goes wrong.

Gardening, hiking, camping and hunting (if you believe the whole society is about to collapse)
Sewing and mending clothes (if you believe you won’t be able to buy new clothes very often)

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1. Learn skills to survive without electricity or internet. Gardening, navigating, hunting, cooking, etc.

2. Learn to fix both a car and a house as much was possible.

3. Become a DIYer

In that order. The goal is to become completely self sufficient.

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If you can get the training I knew someone who was a massage therapist and what got me is its the one skill where you don’t really need anything to ply the trade. Like a massage table and oils or whatnot are pretty much expected but again not strictly needed. Also you can take one phlubotomy class at a community college or such and be assured to get work that is over minimum wage. Granted you got to be able to handle the work. I can’t stand blood myself.

1: Put a set amount of your paycheck by percentage into a savings account before you ever see it.

Aim for at least 10%, but if that’s too much because our economy is fucked, do 1% of your take home pay. You make $500 a month, you put $5 a fucking month into a savings account.

If you can’t do that out of your paycheck, find a way to take on an odd job to make up that difference.

It’s stupid. It’s tiny. It feels pointless.

It’s incredibly important.

2: Learn how to live below your means. I don’t care if you’re a crypto millionaire or a homeless person living on the street, you have to find a way to live off of less than what you have and take the excess that you generate and put it into savings or investments of some type, something that can support you when shit gets bad bad.

3: When you find yourself with extra time, don’t just sit around and binge watch TV or doom scroll.

Definitely get your binge watching and doom scrolling in at appropriate times, but if you find yourself with two or three hours with nothing to do, call up a friend and go try to hang out with them.

In your 20s, friends are popping out of the woodwork for you.

But only the ones that you cultivate and continuously put just a tiny little drop of effort into will still be there when you are 50 or 60.

And it’s a lot of fun to hang out with your friends. It’s far more rewarding than any doom-scrolling you will ever do.

If you find yourself without friends, for whatever reason, try to find something new to do that takes place in a specific location on a regular schedule.

Nothing makes friends faster than repeated interaction over a period of time.

If you want useful, cooking. You’ll learn a lot and you’ll use it all the time.

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Public speaking. It always comes in useful.

Learn a trade of some sort. Mechanic, HVAC, electrical, plumbing are all skills you will use your whole life. Working on your own home/vehicle can be very rewarding in itself not to mention money saved by turning your own wrenches. It’s also a decent way to make a living while you figure out what your really passionate about.

Try learning a musical instrument. Hit a pawn shop and get a cheap guitar or whatever your interested in and learn how to play. It’s a great creative outlet, and can lead you to some music you normally wouldn’t listen to.

Read a book. Any book. Seriously reading is great for your brain.

Learn a language. Duolinguo kinda sucks but it’s free and it gets your brain working.