What Advice Would You Give A Kid In 2021?

“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors® last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

What does a German scientist say when he runs out of beer glasses?  “Nein stein.”

One thing I’ve done with my kids is try to give them the best understanding of the world as I know it.

The problem with advice is that it assumes a set of conditions where the advice is valid.  If you’d assume that learning how to balance a checkbook would always be useful, sending you back to 1066 or forward to 2036 would probably convince you otherwise, though the Normans might find your penmanship amusing.

The most common set of conditions that we assume is that tomorrow will look a lot like today.  That works pretty well most of the time.  Heck, there are entire millennia of human history where tomorrow looked exactly like today.  “Uhh, Grug make rock into pointy spear, kill mammoth, maybe get Mammothlix and Chill with Samantha.”

A second set of conditions is that today’s trends will continue.  This is similar to the first one, but involves, well, trends.  One trend is that electronics keep getting more advanced, and the pace of technological change keeps increasing.  That seems logical, but . . . well, look around.  It’s not like we’re getting any smarter, so there’s a limit there.

There are times when neither of these things is true.

Hobbits may not be smart, but they are well rounded.

A few years ago (has it been that long???) The Boy and I were discussing his future college plans.  There were two good state schools he was seriously considering.  He was also considering either Annapolis, West Point, or Colorado Springs.  His swimming looked much like a swan attempting to change a tire on a 1993 Buick® without a lug wrench.  I mean, it’s possible, but there is a lot of unnecessary motion involved.  And feathers.  Feathers everywhere.

Part of me was hoping that The Boy would be interested in one of the military academies.  He had the grades and the athletics, and certainly the love of country.  He rejected them.  Perhaps he saw then what I see now, that the United States military is being very quickly absorbed into the Leftist collective.  Or maybe he just decided that the military would keep him from his ambition of starting his own cryptocurrency and buying Paraguay.

Who can say?

I hadn’t anticipated the change in the rank and file of the military, so quickly.  The military has had issues over time, but I expected that the Oath would matter more than the occupant of the White House.  Everything I see now points as evidence that the Left is moving exceptionally quickly to politicize the military.  The idea is simple:  drum those out who don’t conform.

So, me telling him to go to a military academy would have been very bad advice.

I guess if you’re hungover at West Point, the advice is to use breath mints, like Tac-Tics®.

What other advice doesn’t ring true in 2021?

How about, save money and buy a house?

That has been wonderful advice since, oh, 1945 or so.  Before then, I assume, you wandered into the great frontier and hewed a cabin out of logs.  Oh, wait.  The Great Depression caused a previous mini-mansion real estate boom to collapse.

My bad.

But does it make sense today?  In many urban areas, would it even be in the realm of possibility for a kid today?

Not in San Francisco.  The median home price there is now $1.4 million bucks.

  • What about Miami? $385,000.
  • Minneapolis, a city I regularly make fun of? $325,000.
  • Salt Lake City? $485,000.

If I do the math, just the payments on a $450,000 loan are about $2,000 a month.  Add in taxes and insurance and you’re probably closer to a monthly payment of nearly $3,000?  At that point, even an average home in Salt Lake City is out of reach of most people under 30, unless of course, they were bringing home in excess of $120,000 a month as a family.

Possible?  Sure.  But at that level of debt payment, there’s very little margin for error.  Mom loses her job making PowerPoints® about (spins wheel) “Overcoming Group Synergy Issues In Dispersed Work Environments” and now the entire family is just a month or two away from knife fights with bums over great overpasses to put a box under.  Well, I guess that’s still real estate.

I tried to offer 0% loans for houses, but there was no interest.

Oh, that brings up other old advice:  save your money.  I consider savings great.  It’s a moral thing to do, and virtue should always pay off in the future.  Unless, of course, the Fed® is printing money as fast as the computer can add zeros.  Then, what you saved soon becomes worth less, and eventually worthless.  Spend it as fast as you can on pantyhose, PEZ® and elephant rides because tomorrow you won’t be able to buy a used disposable razor with that cash.

So, there’s another value inverted.  Honestly, I’d rather suggest that my kids save money in Bitcoin over the dollar.  At least the Fed® can’t (yet) print Bitcoin.  If I were to give my kids advice, I’d say to stock up on all the silver they can.

At least silver holds value.

If the werewolf was clueless?  He’d be an unwarewolf.

Or it has in most times and places.  After the Romans left Britain, though, silver was pretty much ignored because the concern was getting food after civilization collapsed.  Newsflash:  you can’t eat silver.  Yes, that’s a very cherry-picked example, but there are circumstances where even precious metals cease to be precious.   Except for the One Ring.

What about education?

I used to be a “if you can go to college, go to college” guy.  I am not any longer.  College is like any other business proposition.  If a degree has a positive rate of return?  Go for it.  That’s probably limited to a few select degrees in 2021, especially with the price of college.  It certainly doesn’t include any degree that ends in “studies”.

If someone else is paying for most of school, it probably is a good idea to choose a degree that’s in demand, that can’t be done online by someone from Mumbai or Shanghai at $0.43 per hour and has a credential that an illegal alien can’t (yet) get.  Remember, if a degree can be replaced by a machine or computer program or an Internet search?  Don’t do it.

But if it’s not going to cost a kidney or require later “repayment” to gentlemen from extortionist rackets, like organized crime people who make student loans.

Then, go to college.  Otherwise?  Get a job that requires a credential that an illegal can’t (yet) get.

The best advice I’d give today is this:

  • Be adaptable.
  • Be useful.
  • Be optimistic.
  • Learn skills, and understand that learning never stops.

What skills?  Figure out a strength that helps people and earns your keep.  Then get good at it.  Then learn a skill that complements it, a next-door neighbor, if you will.  Then?  Repeat.

Here’s my example:  I always tested well and performed well in language stuff, umm, things.  But for most of my career it was just a complement to the other work I did.  Since I’ve been writing these blog posts I think I’ve gotten a bit better at writing, and much, much better at editing.

Why could the Bible have used a better editor?  Well, to make a long story short . . .

The big result is that I can now tear through an amazing amount of communication-stuff at work with little effort.  They don’t seem to like the bikini memes I keep throwing into emails, though HR keeps laughing.

The world has changed.  Bigly.

Not all of the Millennials and Zoomers are lazy.  The advice Pa Wilder gave me was tried and true and lasted for decades before he shared it with his odd Gen-X son.  Mostly, it worked, and worked really well for me.

But society has moved on.  And, after my study of history, I cannot see the trends we see before us lasting for more than a decade.  Herbert Stein (Ben’s dad) said it very well:  “If something cannot go on forever, it will, Bueller . . . Bueller . . . anyone . . .  stop.”

I see before us several things that are near their stopping point.  In reality, everyone before the Millennials and Zoomers had it easier.  No, not easy.  Easier.  We worked hard.  We put in the time.

But the old rules still worked.  Now?

Not so much.

Think about it:  what is the best advice you’d give a 15 to 30 year-old kid in 2021?

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

70 thoughts on “What Advice Would You Give A Kid In 2021?”

    1. Have a marriage and kids plan. You have an education and jobs plan, yes? The first one is probably more important.

  2. “What does a German scientist say when he runs out of beer glasses?”
    Kein Stein.

  3. It isn’t just big cities. On Monday an 80 acre piece of ground about two miles from our place with no house, no utilities, just dirt, sold for $1.8 million or $22,500 per acre. But as the saying goes, invest in land because they aren’t making more of it.

    My advice is similar: learn a skill that can’t be readily outsourced, work for yourself instead of a big corporation, marry someone who shares your beliefs or at least is open to them and prepare for things to not continue on as they are going.

    1. We are in the process of selling our home on Long Island in one of the more posh areas, and this 1.1 acre plot of land alone is valued at $500k. There is a two-acre minimum for new construction in this town, but there are virtually no two acre lots remaining. ANY existing home around here in any condition is therefore worth a king’s ransom.

      Buyers scoop up places like mine, tear them down to just one small room and then rebuild a palatial McMansion around it. This loophole avoids the “new construction” restriction, as well as holding down the property taxes a tad. I couldn’t possibly afford to rebuy my own house just 22 years after arriving here. My millennial kids never stood a ghost of a chance of ever being homeowners on Long Island. They pay less for mortgage, taxes and insurance combined on their homes in south Texas than we do just on property taxes.

      1. We could sell our place for nearly double what we paid for it ten years ago but then where would we live? I like having some acreage so we can have cattle and other livestock so selling out isn’t for us. I am glad my older boys were able to get a place with 5 acres a few years ago that they own, otherwise they would likewise be priced out of the market.

        1. It’s getting worse here, too. If you find a nice place, let me know. Asking for a friend. (longer story, email me).

    2. Thessalonians 4, especially verses 10-12.

      My own children are young. I point my boys to the skilled trades, and apprenticeship. I think that’s the best option for young men these days.

      We demonstrate to our kids to live on less than you earn. Be self reliant as much as you can, so as not to be a burden. Help neighbors whenever you can, be a blessing to them.

  4. Civil, structural, and mechanical engineering seems like a good field, since much of it has to be done on-site. Electronics design is global, and most of the manufacturing is off-shore. If you aim for an engineering career, from the beginning (elementary school), you’ll be motivated to study the hard subjects (STEM), and you’ll have a solid basis for understanding the limitations of the physical world. If you don’t go into a professional engineering position, you’ll be prepared for a trade apprenticeship (e.g., elevator maintenance, HVAC installation and maintenance, etc.)

    As a general rule, when faced with a choice, chose the option that opens up more choices. A “* Studies” major assumes an academic environment that hires such people. A “classical music performance MFA” assumes the existence of classical music performing groups. If those assumptions prove false, what’s Plan B?

    As for savings, the I-Series US Savings Bond that I bought 20 years ago is paying 7% interest today, and the one I bought a year ago is paying 3.54%. You don’t have to speculate in EFTs or cryptocurrency to beat a bank CD interest rate. (I know… at 3.54%, I’m not making money, only losing it less fast, but it’s still money I can spend later. If I spent it on steak a year ago, it would be gone.)

    1. That savings bond you bought for $25 is now worth $52.52. That’s a 3.8% return.

      The ounce of silver you should have bought for $6.53 20 years ago would now be worth $25.86. That’s an actual 7% return.
      That ounce of gold you should have bought 20 years ago for $274 would now be worth $1900. That’s an 11% return.
      A wee bit better return than savings bonds, ever.
      Just saying.

      Stop subsidizing failure.

      1. I think you’re talking about EE-series Savings Bonds. EE-bonds are fixed interest-rate, but I-bonds track the CPI-U inflation figure. CPI-U has its flaws, but at least it tracks. But I can’t argue with your other numbers. The problem with gold and silver is that I don’t have an army to protect it, and if I ever tried to cash a little bit in to buy some bread (for example), somebody might follow me home to take the rest.

        1. I like the comments. Some quick observations.

          1.) I-bonds do not easily scale, I think the maximums one can purchase per year are $5,000 in paper form and $10,000 electronically. Which is good for building after-tax savings for life’s circumstances.

          2.) The same logic about gold / silver being a security problem can apply to cash withdrawals at the bank. Someone can overhear or figure out there is a withdrawal of $300 in $20s. At gold / silver dealers (not pawn shops), one is often buzzed in and only a few people at a time are permitted in the building.

          3.) The ask price of gold is roughly $1,900. The bid price is around $1,800. So the public sells to the dealer at the bid price.

  5. As a graduate of West Point, I can affirm that today’s military ain’t the military you think it is. Any white leaders who are not gushingly hyper-woke are suspect of being recalcitrant and in need of re-education or elimination from the service.

    No longer is merit rewarded; being politically correct, not making decisions and not taking risks is rewarded because that type of leader (sic.) is the one who gets nothing wrong because they only continue the status quo so as to look good on paper.

    I would not now encourage any young white person to join the military nor attend any service academy.

      1. Ricky,
        As I glanced through the linked press-release, I realized I despise another appropriated word:
        * community

        Used in a despicable sentence:
        * “The fruitcake community unified in defiance of community standards requiring them to keep their fruitcaking behind closed doors.”

  6. 15 to 30 – I’ll aim for the lower end of the spectrum.

    1) Learn a foreign language. Any is better than none but probably Chinese or Spanish are best if living in the US.
    2) Practice a martial art. It keeps you fit, establishes your pain thresholds, teaches self-discipline and introduces you to a different bunch of folks than you meet in a bar.
    3) Learn to use tools. At a minimum – a welder, a chainsaw and a shovel. That way you appreciate folks that do that full time and have the option to use those skills when necessary.
    4) Be prepared. Always have a bugout bag, a stash of hard copy reference books and know the exits from your current location.
    5) Give people a chance to prove themselves. Learn from the ones who prove to be unreliable.
    6) There is no privacy. Anything you say on the internet – or on a phone – or in writing – lasts forever. Presume it will be used out of context at the worst possible time. No fedposting or sniveling.
    7) Get a dog. That provides a source of unconditional acceptance during the rough patches.
    8) No redheads. Male or female. Nuff said.
    9) Be deliberate. There is never enough time to do things right the first time so you spend 5 times more doing it over.
    10) Be good steward. You own nothing permanently. Try to leave what passes through your hands a little better off than when you found it. Don’t get too attached to “stuff” – it will break or disappear eventually.

    And of course the golden rule – after the first one the rest are free.
    . .

    2. I agree, except . . . The Mrs. is a strawberry blonde?

      No. 9: The only thing is that I learned from a bad marriage how to do a good marriage.

      No. 10: That sounds like a whole post. Wow.

  7. I think I could compile a list that would take a lifetime to learn. The basic things should be first: hunting, preparing, and eating something. The most rudimentary methods are best to learn, because that’s what is demanded by survival. When the simplistic nature of survival is understood, the other things become more clear, since they all are garnished examples of the same effort. The only difference is what method of adaption was necessary. In the end, regardless of age, the less burdens accepted allow the most time to reflect, instead of chasing things that require too much energy to keep.

    1. Jess,
      I add — learn to cook.
      Follow enough recipes for awhile so you understand relationships between sweet, sour, bitter, salty, unami.
      Mouth-feel, aromas, plating.
      .
      I grew-up on a farm.
      Starting about knee-high to a fart, I was in the kitchen at 3am… surrounded by both grandmothers and aunts and older cousins.
      “I whip eggs like this, try it and see if it works for you…”
      .
      Learn to cook, because sooner or later, everybody needs to eat.

  8. Find a Mayberry of your own away from the big cities and adapt. Exurb adjacent to farmland is fine especially when starting out.

    1. Yup. Farther, the better. So very calm here.

      We worry about bad traffic signs.

      Really. That’s in the top 2 worries.

  9. 1. Go to church
    2. Know that the only thing you will ever have that is truly valuable is your Word of Honor. Keep it.
    3. Find something you love to do and strive to be the best you can at it.
    4. To find a worthy mate, see #1. .
    5. Save your money – in something other than US Dollars (at the moment)
    6. Be patient. God has a plan for you

    As an aside, my daughter attended the Air Force Academy. The commandant was a Lesbian on her way to the General Staff. One day she was there, the next she was not. Slept with the wrong person I suppose. When leadership is immoral, immorality becomes rampant. Group cohesion is destroyed. See Washington DC as an example.
    After two years my daughter left.
    I am sad for her but very proud of her at the same time.

    1. I really like this set.

      It should be no surprise that the prerequisites for a successful, happy middle class life are:
      1. Get some sort of career training. Lots of good advice here.
      2. Get that training before you get married.
      3. Marry before you have children.
      4. Marriage and raising a family require work. Work at them!

      The only thing that I’d add to the discussion of various jobs is that there are jobs that can never be outsourced and can never be solved by “Tech Support in Mumbai.” Most of those are very non-glamorous jobs like plumbers, air conditioner repair, appliance repair and other skilled trades. Welders are the stereotype for the “high school grad making far more than the college grad.” Mechanics who can fix a car are right there, too.

      When your toilet is flooding the house, or your air conditioner is blowing hot air, there is absolutely nothing some outsourced job can do. Somebody has to physically be there.

    2. I LOVE IT!

      Great list. I’d pop number 4 above number 3.

      Yeah, sounds like your daughter dodged a bullet. Wish our government could do number 2.

  10. If the child is nearing high school years, I would tell him what I learned the Hard Way.

    1. That the ‘cool people’ you wished you were like and were in their good graces won’t matter a hill of beans after high school graduation. You will see MAYBE 10% of the people you knew in school years later in Life and a lot of that may be a smile and wave and a few short words. Stressing out about trying to be like them or impressing them – wasted effort. Find the people who like you for what you naturally are good at – those may become friends for life.

    2. Be kind to everybody you come in contact with. Because you will not believe how much Karma is involved in the future. That ‘dorky skinny kid’ – yeah, he became a big success and having successful friends can open some opportunities for you.

  11. “The most common set of conditions that we assume is that tomorrow will look a lot like today”. Till it doesn’t which I believe is coming soon.

    That michael “the farmer” bloomberg headline above would be just another headline until I recently found out blackrock who advises the fed which ETF’s to buy has quietly been buying up whole neighborhoods in Texas and elsewhere to turn into a revenue stream in the future like they did after the GFC with individual houses. What do they already know. I confirmed this with a Texas banker person I know.

    I have seen hundreds and hundreds of comments saying “just keep stacking” i.e. gold and silver. When needed who is going to trust you or who can you trust to convert it. You can’t eat it. Inflation/shrinkflation has been horrible and will get worse. Haven’t you noticed how toilet paper is narrower now.

    Advice to 15 and 30 I don’t know, guess all I could say is hold on to your hat.

    ps. Wallstreet Journal had a small headline this a.m. talking about the Fed and digital money. They do that they have total control how could I give advice to that possibility.

    1. Good links.

      Prices between capital and many types of labor parted ways some time ago, and really that’s what they’re upset about. Lots of reasons for that split and most of our readers know why.

      I shared how to quickly best surf the tidal wave of poo to the hypothetical 15-30 year old, not necessarily how to have a better material life than what’s enjoyed today.

        1. For Umair I’d recommend living one day at a time and focusing on today’s problems because he might be incorrect about his future and it would be a shame to just give up.

          My view is the US is on its way to joining the third world and our lifestyle will go backwards in time. I like Jim Kunstler’s perspective. His timing has been incorrect many times, but his direction seems plausible.

          Being two very different countries in one isn’t helping either. These countries will eventually self-separate and they will not split neatly on state lines. How this is eventually settled is TBD. I fear the worst and am hoping for the best.

          These are predicaments to manage, and they will require us discussing how to best deal with strange situations as they arise like we have been doing. 2020 had two doozies.

          What about you? What do you recommend?

          1. I would advise him to marry somebody with laughter in their heart. I got that wrong the first time and right the second time, so after being on both sides of the situation I am positive this is good and extremely important advice. Beyond that, I don’t trust any advice. Especially my own. 🙂

          3. Sorry Ricky, I meant to ask you what is YOUR recommendation for Umair.

            I provided a general recommendation as well earlier in the comments, but Umair was so focused on the worst case 10, 20, 30 years from now that I was commenting as a response to Umair’s views of imminent disaster.

            I saw your general response about marrying a woman with laughter in her heart earlier in the comments and it’s a great response. I lucked out!

            Seems Umair needed a little extra direction. And that’s what I was looking for. But reading a little more carefully, I see you don’t trust advice beyond your general comment which is fair. So there is nothing more for Umair from us I guess.

        1. Reminds me of Airplane. Joey, have you been in a … in a Turkish prison?

    2. Well, a better life for them.

      Umair Haque is a grifter – he does write well, though. His end will not be a good one.

  13. So…I have girls, younger than the 15 – 30 window stipulated. Been teaching them what I can of the trades, and all kinds of practical skills, but…they’re girls. They are just wired differently, and while I can teach them plumbing or welding or electrical or general carpentry or concrete or auto repair…they’re not drawn to it in the way a boy might be (though I’m not seeing many boys their age who are drawn that way either, sadly…)

    So…ideas for non-college directions to point them? While we’ve been saving for college for all of them, and have that nicely squared away, that prospect looks increasingly like a bad investment. I used to think something in a medical field would be a good option, but am no longer sure.

    Oh, and the reason they’re turning the military all woke? It isn’t to make a more diverse and inclusive force so that the world laughs at us and China thinks we’re ripe for the picking, or to demoralize traditional Americans by destroying a once honorable institution (that part is just a fringe benefit.)

    It’s so the next and subsequent rounds of recruits won’t hesitate to shoot you and me in the face if we don’t submit.

    Wir sind gefickt.

    1. “Oh, and the reason they’re turning the military all woke?” […] “It’s so the next and subsequent rounds of recruits won’t hesitate to shoot you and me in the face if we don’t submit.”

      Exactly right!

    2. For daughters?

      Find Good Men. They are out there.

      The best outcomes I’ve seen in my life is when Daughters Find Good Men.

      Simple As. And you already know the virtues I’m talking about in both the Men and the Daughters.

      That’s first: family (and, as has been mentioned before, second to God.)

      Wenn wir gefickt werden, können wir es genauso gut genießen.

  14. My suggestion:
    * some things you can change, so invest your influence there.
    Some things, you cannot change, so avoid fretting about them.
    .
    Examples:
    * weather — droughts, floods, breezy season
    Prep, rehearse, build your tribe, then put that on the back-burner, and focus on stuff you control.
    .
    And plan on anybody going ba-zongo with a loud/sharp object at any second, for no reason, or just because they like to cause pain [looking at you, bumblebrats at Oregon’s Bureau Of Building Code Enforcement].

  15. Message limited to young men:
    Yes your dick has rule in your life. But also the ovaries of women dominates her life. In her youth, it is to your advantage to some extent, otherwise there would be no sex. However part of the ovary programming includes a very strong drive to produce children. It can drive them to stupid lengths. Unplanned kids are a big deal.

    Pregnant women on the whole are ok, but after birth, her entirely is centered around that baby and applies until the youngest is maybe 5. You are out of the picture except to provide the meal ticket.

    In a women’s 40s, they become randy as in wondering eyes. Again the ovaries are pushing one more strong drive to produce a kid, and preferably with a different man.

    Menopause is hell you will not believe. And it is not a year or two as the BS implies. It last more than a decade of pissed off bitch over the tiniest faults on your part, or not even a fault. Something can be made up.

    So really, just avoid women. With the new “believe the woman” crap, you are screwed and not in a good way. I know a guy that got 5 years in prison because the girlfriend decided mid-intercourse to say stop. He did not stop fast enough she claimed.

    If you are stupid enough to marry anyway, at least be smart enough to require a pre-nuptial. And not a jack-in-the-box cheap one either. Spend a few grand on a good lawyer with a contract that spans more than 10 pages. Have that contract include separation clause at menopause. Whoever keeps the house, pays the local moving cost of the other.

    Maintain separate banking, savings, and especially retirement accounts. The pre-nup must define the accounts as permanently separate and not subject to divorce considerations. Should include the same for the cars.

    Oh, and the amount that work sucks depends directly on the quality of your boss. A good boss will make a world of difference in your life.

  16. Advice to a 15-30 year old from a loving grandparent:

    1. Find God, get involved, go to church, discover a purpose in life.

    2. Forget college. You don’t need a college education for the future. I know you’ve been looking forward to going to the Big Name university where everyone in our family has gone. But you don’t need that million dollar education that we gave our children. Your family is highly educated and we can teach you.

    3. Get a trade. Productive work is what will pay. Hair stylist, carpenter, welder, stone mason, nurse, paramedic.

    4. Find a spouse. If family violently doesn’t approve, run. There’s something wrong with that person.

    5. Be kind, do the right thing. Don’t be an ass.

    6. Stay positive, don’t ever give up.

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  18. Stay away from females as from Ebola.
    If you have to, pump and dump but:
    (a) beware of catching STDs . . . some are incurable
    (b) beware of sperm-jacking . . . females are devils at their own BS.
    Or, better yet: MGTOW MONK.

    In this day and age it gains a man nothing to spend more than two hours with a female and that’s for sex then bolt.

    Females are like a mine field. Some may not explode. But if you are going to find out by trying them . . . one will kill you.
    A female knows how to con a man at age six. Do your math.
    Females are parasites and ballast. You don’t want to carry a bag of rocks.
    Remember . . . Ebola . . . stay away from them.

    Gold and silver have been working since forever. Have some . . . or a lot.
    Ammo will be right behind them.

    Venezuerica is going to crash.
    The techno dystopia is almost here.
    Patriots are sleeping and won’t wake up in time.
    It’s over. We lost.
    It’s gonna be bad.

    You’ll never regret learning a useful skill.
    ”Useful” Afrocentric lesbian dance therapy won’t do you any good.
    On the other hand something like blacksmithing might come in handy.
    There aren’t many blacksmiths any more.

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