LEARN HARD SKILLS 👩🏼‍🏭🧑‍🏭👨🏻‍🏭🧑🏻‍🔧👨🏾‍🔧👩‍🔧👷🏼‍♀️👷👷🏼‍♂️👨🏻‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾👩‍🌾👩🏼‍✈️🧑🏻‍✈️👨🏼‍✈️👩‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀👨‍🚀

For anyone starting the climb, below is a list of the cost and estimated how long it takes to learn each hard skill.

Red Cross First Aid/CPR ✅ (1 day - $50)
Ham Radio Technician ✅ (45 days - $15)
Ham Radio General ✅ (45 days - $15)
Ham Radio Extra ✅ (90 days - $15)
Hunting License ✅ (2 days for online course, about $160 total including deer tags)
TCCC ✅ (2 days - $550)
EMT 📆 (4 months $2500)
Welding 1 & 2 ✅ (3 month night program - $1400 plus books & gear)
Beekeeping ✅ (1-2 months $150 + bees and equipment)
Forklift 📆 (2 days - need to get a job at Costco so manager can verify safety cert)
Pilot License (5 months - $15,000)
SpaceOps Master’s (2 years - $20k)

Start with low hanging fruit first…in my case I did lowest cost and shortest time to learn first and then highest cost and longer time to complete last.

Steel Rain

SHORTAGES REPORT
PREPARE ACCORDINGLY

FEBRUARY 3RD TO FEBRUARY 10TH

It's that time again! Shortage reports. Please peruse the following articles and videos and try to determine how they might affect the current or future supply chain.

Keep stacking! Don't stop. Check your stash for holes and patch em up!

Lloyds and Halifax banking apps down throwing customers into chaos
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/breaking-major-uk-banking-apps-34589192

Beware: From 10 February, an EU regulation allows up to 4% of UV-treated insect powder to be contained in food products such as bread, cheese, jams, or pasta.

DEVELOPING! Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a suspect after nearly 100,000 eggs were stolen from an egg distributor in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

Officers responded to Pete & Jerry’s Organics in Antrim Township following reports of the theft, which occurred from the back of a distribution trailer.

Police estimate the stolen eggs have a retail value of $40,000. Officials say the investigation is ongoing, but no suspect or suspects have been identified at this time and they are continually searching for the suspect.

Waffle House Places Surcharge On Egg Items To ‘Combat National Shortage’
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/waffle-house-places-surcharge-on-egg-items-to-combat-national-shortage/
Waffle House, a restaurant chain with over 2000 locations in 25 U.S. states, recently announced that the chain will be adding a $0.50 surcharge to all egg items at its locations — due to the drastic increase in egg prices caused by the ongoing bird flu, which is affecting supply chains.

You are going to start seeing a bunch of weird stories like this now where private companies magically can't pay their employees which should tell you where their actual funding came from.

Those USAID payments stopped 🚫

This timeline is 🔥

The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday night that it is temporarily suspending accepting packages sent from China and Hong Kong until further notice.

The suspension is effective immediately, the USPS said. Letters and flats are not included in the suspension.

Homebase closing 33 stores this month - full list
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/homebase-closing-33-stores-this-month-full-list/ar-AA1ysuL3

Up to 700 UK farm shops could be forced to close putting thousands of jobs at risk.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/04/700-farm-shops-permanently-close-putting-thousands-jobs-risk-22497367/

Walmart Is Laying Off Hundreds, Relocating Others as the Company Closes a U.S. Office
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walmart-is-laying-off-hundreds-relocating-others-as-the-company-closes-a-u-s-office/ar-AA1ytm7R

600,000 people warned they could have their power cut off in weeks
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/600-000-people-warned-they-could-have-their-power-cut-off-in-weeks/ar-AA1yrSk6

Vauxhall confirms Luton plant will close in April, which has been making vehicles since 1905.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjk8j4vwko

There going to kill the cows now.
They want you to eat fake meat