latoc young people's caucus (introduce yourself 15-25ish)

[the_reborn_soul]

Well, I just discovered I never put my name here. I'm already a Sr. Member and having arguments with the moderators and I never introduced myself.

I'm Reborn, high school student and doomer for the past 2 years. I'm trying to learn just about any skills I can, and desperately attempting to prep while avoiding the notice of my avidly Cornucopian family. Unfortunately, I've done little. You can recognize me from a mile away; I'm pessimistic, cynical, and tend to just randomly cobble together words in the hope of putting together a correct sentence. Gummi bear chicken rice Star Wars USB cable is but the Douglas Adams.

[oskar]

Hey guys, I'm 21 and getting ready to finish college just as the SHTF

[Sabotage]

Hey guys, I'm 21 and getting ready to finish college just as the SHTF

yeah fun, huh?

[apwall21]

Small town University in the middle of nowhere that offers Grad degrees in your field.

[foreverx62308]

I'm 17 years old

I work at a dollar tree

Photography and music are my passion

I am getting ready for my 2nd knee surgery in less then a yr. fun fun...not so much

When I finish highschool, I plan to attend huntington university to major in english, and minor in photography or phsycology

I discovered this site on accident, and i want to see what I can find out by looking and posting on this site
because i find it real fascinating.

People where I come from find enjoyment in goofing around/ getting kicked out of walmart/the library...this does not include me.

I listen to skillet when i get upset and for whatever reason, that cheers me up

I am a real fun person to get to know and get along with, so if you wanna talk, message me on here, and i also have a myspace: www.myspace.com/sunnyshine23

[JoeMerica]

Hi folks!  I'm a nineteen year old male, living in the great state of washington, and going to college.  I've got an odd strut, oblivious look, and am always thinking about something beyond me.  I've been lurking on this site for some time, but until this day, I did not know  this part of the forum even existed haha thats just kind of how I am.  I'm getting my AA at Peninsula College anyone hear of it?  (doubt it) and am hopefully transferring over to Western Washington or UW university by the end of this year.  I would like to get a degree in English and become a teacher but my options are open and I'm just kind of going with it.  Most 20ish people I know don't give a damn about the economy or anything I am involved in, and think thats its not natural for a nineteen year old to be stockpiling food and ammo.  My best friend is a bigger nut than I am and I'm trying to convince him to get on this forum too but whenever he gets on here it just reassures him that the end is nie.  I've been very eager about learning skills, becoming prepared, and getting ready to survive anything anyone tries to throw at me:  Zombie outbreaks, economic collapse, WW3, China/Russia/Germany invasions on American soil, Martial Law, dictatorship, or anything else. 
Anddddddd I love Ron Paul and Peter Schiff more than life itself. 
Anyone around the Olympic peninsula and/or Puget sound want to hook up and discuss the end, send me a reply!  Nice to know I'm not the only crazy young person 

[frankieandellie]

Saying Hello to the 25ish and younger and here to introduce myself:

Only just heard about PO from the Documentary "End of Suburbia."  I was looking through NetFlix's collection of "watch instantly" when I found it.  It sounded interesting, and now I am here.  I am fucking scared.  I am 27(close enough to 25ish) and have $120,000.00 in student loan debt I was banking on the economy doing well and my growing earnings.  I make 75,000.00 a year, but I live just outside of NYC as well as work there, so my expenses are high along with my loan repayments.  I am a digital retoucher.  I haven't felt the effects of the market collapse yet, but I'm worried I may.  Just last year I started my own business, and employ 8 people.  I share the business with 2 others.  I am watching the market disappear and I don't see any fix in sight.  I've been looking at all the simple math that was never apparent to me before, and I know it will all fall apart rather soon.  I have a girlfriend who has some very strong psychic senses and had been warning me about something bad happening soon and that she felt a very strong urge to start collecting seeds.  After I told her about PO she said it all makes sense now.  We plan to move back in with my parents in about a year or two, and I plan to spend my present weekends turning their 18 acres into something that can sustain us.  I want to try to earn as much money from my business as possible and then sell my 1/3rd to my partners.  This may be a bad idea, but I don't know what to do about my student loans.  I was supposed to be on a 30yr plan, but thats seems shot to hell now.  15% of the loans are federal, while the rest are private, what do I do?   ADVICE PLEASE!!!

[ozzyozzyoi]

I'm 25 have degrees/postgrads in media. Australian jobs are starting to feel the pinch which is bad news for me as im just entering the workforce. ANyone here from Aus?

[Warlocc]

Hello all, I'm a 21 year old male and I thought this would be a good place to post an introduction.  Be warned, this is going to be rather long-winded, but I want to get a decent amount of information in.
   I've lived on my family's 300 acre doomstead since we moved to it a little over ten years ago.  My mom bought the first 20 acre piece back in 1977 and lived on it for one summer, and immediately fell in love with it.  She always intended to come back and live here permanently.  It has 100 acres of farm fields, a 20 acre pasture with a barn, and the rest is forested with the land running along a creek.  We have about three or four miles of creek on our land, our section being the farthest up the creek on private land.  The forest bordering our land is national forest, with two major lakes a short distance away. We also have five springs on our property.
   Shortly after I was born, my parents bought a rather large suburban house in a semi-rural area that sat on about ten acres, with space for large gardens which included an existing orchard.  I started helping my mom with the gardens at a very young age and loved it.  My grandfather was the park director in Bellevue  Washington for 30 years and he and my grandmother moved to the area shortly after we did.  I spent a lot of time in his gardens learning what he had to teach me.  Sometimes he would come over to our house and work in our gardens and help plant trees. 
   After almost ten years my parents had had enough of living in a suburban environment (mostly my mom) and they decided that it would be a good idea  to move to our “cabin”.  Honestly, I think they wished they had been part of the back to the land movement in the 70s, haha. My grandmother had always been a doomer since she had lived through the depression and over the years had encouraged and helped my mom and dad buy more pieces of land around the original piece.  So I was to quit school during the middle of fourth grade, begin home schooling and move with my parents to our new homestead/doomstead. Since about the age of ten, I've been helping my family build it up.  I was home schooled all the way through high school, which worked pretty well except for the fact that I have a pretty poor grasp of higher math, girls, plus a little social anxiety in certain situations (I'm working on all three).
   When I turned 16, my sister and her husband and daughter moved into our house which was a pretty massive change for everybody.  They moved in due to the fact that her husband couldn't find work anywhere.  My traditional schooling was kind of put on a back burner at this point because my parents were otherwise focused, and I focused on learning practical skills around the farm/homestead, including beekeeping, low energy use hydroponics, and winter gardening.  I spent a considerable amount of time lurking around survivalist/doomer websites/forums.  I also started to amass survival supplies like guns, ammo, food, seeds, greenhouse supplies, etc. with my own money.  I agreed to stay around the house and help out until my brother in law was back on his feet, which was supposed to take about three years at the most, but it's turned out to be a little over five.  This Monday they're moving out to a rental in town. 
   For awhile I've been trying to figure out what I should do with myself now.  Go to school?  I've always intended to go to college at some point, and there seems to be a good opening now.  I think it would be a good place to be considering the current economic climate, plus I could get over some of my social anxiety issues.  I also have more than enough money saved up to get a PhD if I wanted to.  My current plan for school is to go to a local community college for two years, and maybe pick up a trade skill such as welding, and then go to the University of Washington.  Anyway, I posted this here because I've almost never told anyone my age about my survivalist/doomer activities and when I have they've given me “that look,” and I'm hoping that I might meet some other like-minded young people here that I can relate to.  If you want to communicate, PM me!

[Guermo]

Hey all,

I am from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, where on my Mom's side of the family, we have lived for nine generations. We were here before Lewis and Clarke.

I grew up on twenty two acres of mountainous woodland. I was trained on various tools from the time I could pick one up, and have a fairly extensive list under my belt. I've worked on maintaining vehicles since I was seven, and have been able to read a topo map since I could read my name (not quite... but it sounds good )

Upon arriving at college this past fall, I got a slap in the face waking me up to just how incompetent the vast majority of my class-mates were. In one class I was the only person (nevermind male or female) who had ever made anything with a sewing needle, and one of two that had made bread. These were just the two asked by the professor mind you, I doubt many have even held a shovel in their lives.

I found out about Peak Oil relatively recently, and have since opened the eyes of at least one sister and brother and law, and my parents. The sister and brother in law have recently purchased my Grandparents house and land (my grandparents will move to a cabin a hundred yards or so away). Currently their are four horses, a good amount of pasture land, a greenhouse, multiple sheds, stables, and many hand tools, as well as the wealth of knowledge contained in my grandparents.

Realizing that this is possibly my last semester in college, they know that my plan is to live with them (there is an apartment in the basement, or several cottages to choose from down the road), and work for food / lodging, if I am not able to compensate otherwise.

We have plans to run the house with PVs, but I am not sure if a full system will be in place by the time we need it, so I plan to help purchase or influence the purchase of at least one panel to run a water pump with (which pulls from a stream 100 feet below the house) and to supply other basic power needs, if they arise.

The house is situated at the end of a finger of land, with steep hills on all sides. A river provides the boundary on nearly two sides, and an all year creek on a third.

We will have the capacity to provide enough food for ourselves by the middle of the summer, and have experience shooting, cleaning, and butchering our own meat (deer are more than prevalent were we live... they are a pest).

The first livestock they plan to have are chickens, for meat and eggs. And I am pushing for a dairy cow for milk (we are all milk fiends).

They personally have several guns (Rifles, Shotguns, and Handguns), and I personally have a Rifle and Shotgun. We have a decent amount of ammunition, but more is on my list for when I have some income, and purchasing more will be encouraged to them.

My sister and I were bred to work, as well as the rest of our family (I am the youngest of 6, with a 17 year spread). One of our brothers and his wife are already fairly self-sufficient and only becoming more-so. My parents have always had the mentality to survive, and my grandmother recently revealed to me that she and my grandfather are survivalists (not that they had to )

Between the knowledge and ability we possess as a collective, I feel we are well suited to flourish in the coming collapse.

There is much more, but I'll spare you details.

-Guermo

[Sabotage]

double posting but hey i started this thread so i am gonna add to my "progress"

GENERATION WTF HERE!

I'm 22, about to graduate college with a bullshit Communications Degree and maybe a Philosophy minor. I have $33,000 in loans, which I am told is not much compared to most, but fuck! I am living off of about $3,000 of that now, in my new collective house/co-op. We'll be converting a vacant lot owned by some slumlord (apparently the head of Rhode Island Home Land Security) into a little guerrilla garden. I live in the "ghetto" because it is all I can afford. 4 Folks. I share a room with a sheet for a wall, in order for rent to be $200. We scavenge/urban forage for as many of our needs as possible aka we dumpster dive/trash pick. The food we do spend money on is mainly beans/rice/stuff that should be our doom supplies (they are deteriorating quickly). Rhode Island's unemployment rate is officially 10%, so who knows what it really is. Luckily I have a bus pass I scammed from my old work place that is lasting me for a year, and I ride bikes/walk everywhere else. I did somewhat chose to start living this way because I caught on to LATOC in Spring 07 when I moved into my first collective house, but now I have to live this way if I do not want to live with my parents who are in the middle of Edward Sissorhands Land (aka suburbia). Only good news lately is my father might be getting a sailboat, I am trying to convince him to pull an Orlov, he's bought me books from Matt's store before, and read World Made By Hand, so who knows.

Here's some pics of my digs/dumpstered fridge contents/depleting herbs and preps:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32429412@N05/sets/72157614402532639/

[vee]

Hi, I'm 24, I live in Canada with my husband. I only got interested in the doom thing because of my husband. At first I thought he was crazy because I was from a small town where everyone knew you and farming is the means of life so I didn't really know what was going on in the world outside of what was shown on the T.V. After reading and watching so interesting things I started to see what was really going on out there and I have been a doomer ever sense. My job in my house is cooking and such. So I buy extra every week just in case. We also have a boat load of food stored that I buy for too. I'd like to think nothing will happen and everything will turn out fine but if not I can handle whatever comes as long as my hubby is there with me. 

[CLynnia]

Hello!  I'm [nearly] 19 and I live on the eastern edge of Colorado Springs.  I got into PO because my mom did, and she's a pretty smart lady.  We've got stuff stored in our basement [wheat, rice, etc], and ever since I was little my mom's had backup bottles of water and such stored away.  I don't know what my dad thinks about all this--my mom does her own thing and he just stays out of the way.    He is super smart as well and his background is in engineering and math, so the concept of Peak Oil wouldn't be much of a stretch at all for him.  For me, I grew up reading books like Little House in the Big Woods and the sequels, so I'm comfortable with the idea of a world sans plastic and oil.  [Or at least the endless supply we presently seem to have.]

[marcin77]

ahhh so, i'm 23. i found out about this site when i was 19 back in 2005 while i was working on some project for school. anyway, i dropped out of college moved out of my parents and lived on my own for a while. i partied my ass off because, well, we're all fucked anyway so lets take advantage of the age of excess... right? my job sucked ass, but there were girls, booze, and all that other stuff. what else do you need? anyway, i started dating this girl about two years ago now, and her family and her tried to convince me to go back to college, since i was actually pretty smart. i graduated with all A's from high school and i was in honors classes... bla bla bla... so i had to move back with my mom, lame, and i could not deal with school my mom and my gf at once, so i broke up with my gf, lamer, and here i am. i'm on my second semester.   

[DetroitDregs]

Hey everyone, good to see so many young "doomers" (still getting used to typing that, it still makes me chuckle). I had thought I'd be left alone with nothing but people my parents age when things get bad.

My name is Terrence, I'm 26, the father of a 10 year old son whose mother is one of my best friends, and actually engaged to another good friend; I live in Detroit Michigan for the time being. I'm new to these forums (but not the blog) and have been aware of PO for five or six years. I'm very excited to have finally found you guys, I honestly feel a lot better about the whole situation seeing this community.

I work for a non-profit organization teaching social skills to Developmentally Disabled Adults. I just decided to ditch my nearly complete degree in Social Work for something more practical and useful post crash, so as of July I'll be going to school at a local aeronautics college to build, service and maintain Wind Turbines. I figure I might as well milk the current "green energy" trend while I can, it's looking pretty lucrative. I figure I'll have a few solid years to pull down a lot of cash in order do this right, which as many posts show, is very difficult to do at our ages.

My family has a 40 acre tract of land in a small town, I have an 8 acre plot of former corn and hay field with surrounding woodlands, a pond, marsh and a moderate sized clean river. I may buy my own land in a few years, or purchase more of it from my family members who, while not Doomers, do not discount the idea and are very self reliant. I was going to build an earth sheltered "Eco Fallout" home this summer, but as mentioned, I decided to return to school instead.

I'm actually looking to make connections with others my/our age who would be interested, in the future, in forming an "eco hamlet" there (or possibly elsewhere) similar to what Vineyard is doing with the GLAI ( http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,7197.0.html ), but likely more tribal based due to the smaller nature. Ideally, people I'd like to meet would favor a simpler and more stable lifestyle without PO looming, are community oriented and have/are willing to learn a wide range of skills; sanity is a huge plus.

If you're interested in the idea, or just want more Doomers on your Myspace, mine is www.myspace.com/Mindlesstool . It's private, just add me and let me know who you are. I also have an LJ, though I don't post much, called Fields_of_dust. It's more of a post-apocalyptic poetry project than anything though.