Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 162 Location: Devon, UK
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:
Gareth here. 27 yrs old married with 1 baby girl.
Graduated 5 yrs ago with Masters degree in electronics & telecomms, working as a programmer in a fairly large global telecoms corp (with head buried firmly in the sand regarding impending oil decline, as nearly all of my well-qualified coworkers are!). After 4 yrs of layoffs, I don’t think there’s much future for code monkeys, so I am planning to get my electricians badge and go the trade route into Solar PV, and possibly branch into eco-house building (or sub-sections thereof) from there.
Trying to get out of debt and am waiting for the crash to acquire a property with some land (I would love one of these but might have to buy a normal house and give it a green makeover).
I am currently reading Heinberg’s Powerdown and Blood and Oil by Klare. (Non-oil related: I am also in the middle of The Hidden Connections by Capra and the Algebraist by Iain M Banks, though these days I don't have much time for fiction!!!)
Pastimes are Aikido and Systema, and will start (assisting) teaching soon.
What does PO mean for me?
In a way I’m happy as the CC movement are cottoning on and I hope it helps to speed up creating a force of change for the better.
It has also accelerated my need to change career and build more useful life skills. (So if I don't get the sack soon then I'll quit )
Trying to raise awareness to as many friends as I can - especially wrt resource wars. The stubbornness and sometimes apathy makes optimism a bit difficult.
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 85 Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject:
Age 34- Married with 2 kids 7 & 4.
Spent last 9 years in trucking administration- currently unemployed. The Canadian government is retraining me to be a truck driver. (god forbid) Always wanted to be a politician (unfortunatly I've got left of center views-not too popular these days)
Should have stayed in university and become a geologist!
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 921 Location: 145'2"E 37'46"S
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:20 am Post subject:
33y.o with 1 daughter, romanticly single but friendly cohab with mum.
Edu: B.Sc Env.biology & (v.nearly) M.Sc in Geospatial science (making landcover & veg condition maps from remote sensing).
Worked at: labouring, manufacturing & services in 4 countries, corporate & public serve hack, call centre (worst of lot, worse than getting up at 3am to carry sacks of cement up stairs).
Enjoy: ultimate frisbee, intentional community, nonviolent direct action, culture jamming, creative graffiti, my weird & troublemaking friends.
I'm 22. High School graduate, with some college under my belt. I've been well into survival for a long time, but mostly on the practical side. Learn to tie knots, how to start a fire, edible plants etc. etc. _________________ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 975 Location: On one of the blades of the fan
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: Let's hear it for the Arts and Humanities!
I have a degree in Film and Photographic Arts.
I work in the media, as a writer and internet consultant, specialising in the photographic industry. So PP my livelihood's down the toilet, and certainly not compostable.
Some years ago I decided to "downshift" as I have other interests besides working, working, working, and don't have a car.
I'm doing my Higher Prelims right now (ie. 5th Year of Highschool).
No one will accuse me of being the brightest diamond in King Solomon's Mines, but I like to think that rural life has made me one of the harder (ie. denser) stones.
I'm not working right now, but when there's work on the farm/nearby farms I'm a cheap alternative to help.
I plan to become one of the first in my family to go to university, then either go into the police, or (if the crash is fast and hard) work on my eldest brother's farm (if the lazy bugger bothers to inherit it, as is traditional). _________________ There'll be war, there'll be peace
But one day all things shall cease
All the iron turned to rust
All the proud men turned to dust
So all things time will mend
So this song will end
33, never married, no kids, and work in the less than wonderful I.T. field. Recently moved to Phoenix and found out that no matter where I go I need a new career. Have an A.A.S. as a computer network specialist with multiple certifications and wish I had finished my math and science degrees to become a physicist or actuary.
I'm the type of person that adapts easily, maintains a low standard of living for an American, and has done an immense amount of self education. For as long as I can remember I have always said that one day all this greed will catch up to us and I wonder how few people could actually handle the collapse of modern society. Most of the last year I have spent time learning about other societies, politics, overpopulation, animal cruelty, environment, peak oil, and other related things.
The single thing that I think got me to open my eyes wider and to do research was a comic I saw that had an electric car in one frame and then showed it being charged in the next with the cables running back to a nuclear power plant. One definately gets a different perspective on things when they begin to look at the whole process.
Also, I have recently become a vegan and its great because a lot of the damage I have done to my body over the years is beginning to reverse. It only took me a few weeks off the vegan diet to realize just how much bad junk is in processed food and meat. Now I am vegan for good as it is so much better for me and the environment.
Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 80 Location: Dallas, TX
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:
I am 56, male. I have an MS in geology and worked in the oil industry for 10 years as a geolgist and reservoir engineer. I left that when the jobs went away in the early '80s, and I've been doing computer programming ever since.
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Should have stayed in university and become a geologist!
Joined: Feb 07, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: the Netherlands
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Personal information
In august you asked for our personal background:
here's mine:
44yrs, father of three kids, engineer Msc Agricultural University of Wageningen, degree in irrigation, geology and soilscience, meteorology and remote sensing.
Profesionally: Ministry of way- and watermanagement, National office of Dutch Energy conservation (Novem), Several major engineering offices.
Regards, Martien
41 single, BS Chemistry,(my favorite teacher was a petroleum geologist), 3 years of dental school (didn't care for it), MBA Finance.
Quit my job 3 years ago to spend full time managing investments.
Past jobs included a controller of a construction company, government auditor and an adjunct college instructor.
Hobbies include: racing sailboats, iceboating and duck hunting.
Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 294 Location: SoWashCo, Minnesota
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:
36, married with 1 son. BA in History, so naturally I'm in IT. I work as a DBA for a local company.
Originally found out about Peak oil in 98 or 99 through the Die-Off site, then got married and forgot about ut until about the middle of last year. Found peakoil.com and lurked for a long time before registering.
Now kicking myself for getting embroiled in the prototypical American Dream situation.
If nothing else, I've now gotten interested in gardening, homebrewing, and trying to figure out how to keep my house warm in a Minnesota winter without a constant supply of natural gas.
I have a BA in English. I work as a systems administrator (i.e. I fix computers, servers, printers, etc) at a University in Virginia. I used to live near DC, but thankfully moved away to a smaller city.
I go to a Quaker church on Sundays with my girlfriend, yet I own guns and play Battlefield 1942. No, I'm not a hypocrite. I don't belive in passivity, or most of the Quaker 'doctrine', if you can call it that. I consider myself a secular humanist.
I live with my girlfriend, and our dog, in an appartment. Own a motorcycle (yayyy!), and a car (booo!).
I'm an avid homebrewer. One day I'd like to be a beekeeper and brew mead. My gf is into organic gardening.
Slowly comming to terms with all of this crap. Thinks we're all Fark in the long-run. Cheers!
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,2 year college degree,electrical engineering.I work for the Veterans administration at a VA hospital as an Hvac Technician.
I work as a DBA for a local company.
