I've been sitting here today thinking about getting more work. I currently do house painting, trying desperately to avoid working as an information broker. Although as an information broker I make more money per job, the recession has put those projects to few and far between, I'd make more money working at McBarfs in Alberta.

Trade jobs tend to last longer when you get the work, but competition is increasing to the point that I worry about having enough work this summer. I've done swamping, which is really bad for my back, but I might have no other choice but to do it again between painting jobs.

I dropped by www.survivalistboards.com which has a sticky forum thread on the subject to see what others have come up with, and was given a few ideas, but it made me think about income after wshtf.

I think our current greatest threat is economic disaster, even here in Canada. And it is likely to be a very slow painful decent into the abyss. During the transition between this and that, property taxes will still likely be collected, my number one concern for the farm. Hence the need for a depression proof source of income.

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