Odd Times

Though for those of you with wives and children these times might seem awful. However, for single people who are adults these times might be opportunities. For example, it could be a time married or single to go back to college to train oneself for a new economy, for example, as an alternative electrical engineer specializing in solar cell design or more efficient wind turbine electrical generation or new types of electrical generation not thought of yet.

Another idea is to become a solar technology installer working on the roofs of homes and businesses installing active and passive solar systems. Another idea is to learn how to install and maintain Wind generators especially on the plains and in other windy areas. There are many wind generator installations in windy areas in California where I live for example. However, most people coming into California on Interstate 10 are more familiar with the large installation of wind generators just outside of Palm Springs, California. When temperatures go up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit during summer months they save lives, especially if the power grid collapses from high temperatures. Wind generators keep all the air conditioning happening in Palm springs and the surrounding areas no matter what the power grid does.

Another idea is to move to another area where there are more jobs. For example, here in California the unemployment rate is 9.3% as of December and in my county here houses have lost 50% of their value since December 2007. Though the more affluent areas where I live the value lost is only about 14% still this 50% is unthinkable in the larger county. However, we now live in unthinkable but interesting times.

There is a Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times". When this was first coined "interesting" meant times of war, plagues, awful weather or starvation. For now, including Africa with Cholera we have all these things happening on earth at once.

One thing for sure we live in times of extreme change. In times of extreme change I have lived through already i.e. "the 60s, the 70s, parts of the 80s, collapse of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain and since 9-11, the times just seem to keep now getting more and more extreme with no end in sight primarily now because of Global Climate Change. While we "ants" have our wars and disagreements the poles melt and the old ways of life on earth we have known now for thousands of years are permanently gone at least for present generations.