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Hey guys, I'm 19, I work full time doing spot welding and steal manufacturing, I've got 35 hours in a cessna 172 working toward my PPL, and a year away from finishing with my business management degree. I have always wanted to become a pilot, but I have a bad feeling that the aviation industry won't be a thing within 10 years.... whats your recommendations? should I continue pouring all my savings into flight training? at least I'm gaining experience while my money is loosing incredible amounts of value due to inflation.
I'm in a unique position to pursue any career I want since I invested in crypto currency about a year and a half ago and have around $40,000 in ethereum and bitcoin. (down 4k from a few days ago)
I also want to start preparing for a global financial crisis I think will be coming soon
 
Hello and welcome, what a productive young man we got here. Keep pushing and you'll do fine. ;)

You can rest assuredly that there will be an aviation industry in 10 years. Planes aren't going anywhere, the lockdowns are just temporary.

If I were you though, I'd sell all those trash coins right now, or very soon. Contrary to the aviation industry, crypto will very likely not be a (worthwhile) thing in 10+ years time. I'd cash in the investment now.

But you're right in thinking that you should convert cash into other assets. Cash is becoming a hot potato, and I'd only have savings of 30,000 USD or so at a maximum, just to pay for stuff breaking, or whatever is needed. But you can turn money into all kinds of assets, everything from stocks of rice to gold, education or whatever.

But what do you like working with?
 
Welcome. Pilots will be needed in 10 years, they will be needed next year. Did you inject any clot shots into your body? If you did, then you probably won't be here in 10 years.
If you havent sold the Crypto, then you have nothing.
To prepare, sell the Crypto and buy gold, silver, and hard valuable assets.
 
Warm Welcome from the Georgia Mountains! I applaud you for your focus and thought toward the future! Most young men your age really don’t get to where you are mentally until 30.

The governments/Great Reset controllers WILL collapse the crypto’s. Ditch it while you can. Silver, gold, at least a years worth of long term food. A weapon to protect yourself with training and lots of ammo. You will be well set for the coming collapse.
 
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I think I'm gonna stress it again; ditch the crypto, and do it soon. If you're pretty sure the crypto is gonna rise in value again the next two weeks or so, then wait and sell and that higher price. But ditch it soon. Crypto is as vaporous as ghost farts. When you sell them, be exceptionally careful how and with whom, because there are sites out there that simply scam you on that, but you probably already know that. You rode the wave, grabbed a golden goose along the way, and now it's time to cash it in while you can, with a big smile.

 
Welcome from a place that you not like me if you knew where it was.

12 yrs ago I made a choice to get out of an industry because I didn’t think it would be around. 5 yrs ago my coworker contemporaries all got the ax, but the industry is still going.

Its hard to predict the future. But you you seem to have a diverse skill set. Keep building on that.
 
Welcome to the forum. I have to admit that you seem way more mature than the majority of 19 year olds. Honestly I would continue with getting your pilots license. Son 2 got his and is now a Captain flying commercially around the US, Canada, and Mexico. I really believe that pilots will be around for years to come, in one way or another.
 
Welcome. Pilots will be needed in 10 years, they will be needed next year. Did you inject any clot shots into your body? If you did, then you probably won't be here in 10 years.
If you havent sold the Crypto, then you have nothing.
To prepare, sell the Crypto and buy gold, silver, and hard valuable assets.
Haha I absolutely did not take any depopulation vaccinations. I wrote a paper on all the side effects for a class and my liberal professor called it "unsettling". And he is correct, it is unsettling how many people have side effects from these shots
 
Warm Welcome from the Georgia Mountains! I applaud you for your focus and thought toward the future! Most young men your age really don’t get to where you are mentally until 30.

The governments/Great Reset controllers WILL collapse the crypto’s. Ditch it while you can. Silver, gold, at least a years worth of long term food. A weapon to protect yourself with training and lots of ammo. You will be well set for the coming collapse.
Yep I'm thinking about investing in a reliable vehicle too, a nice low millage f250 7.3 powerstroke will probably appreciate in value over the coming years since all the gas and diesel cars are being cancelled in favor of electric
 
I think I'm gonna stress it again; ditch the crypto, and do it soon. If you're pretty sure the crypto is gonna rise in value again the next two weeks or so, then wait and sell and that higher price. But ditch it soon. Crypto is as vaporous as ghost farts. When you sell them, be exceptionally careful how and with whom, because there are sites out there that simply scam you on that, but you probably already know that. You rode the wave, grabbed a golden goose along the way, and now it's time to cash it in while you can, with a big smile.


I've been considering it for a while, I want to wait until after the new year since typically assets go down before Christmas and then back up after the new year due to people selling for taxes. But absolutely I do not trust crypto at all, its being manipulated and frankly, if the internet goes out then a bottle of whisky will be more valuable then 100 bitcoin
 
Welcome from Louisiana! Have you considered joining the military for further flight training? Seems like you have the right stuff. Go Navy and learn how to land on a carrier!
Thanks for the welcome, I have considered it for sure, It would be quite the experience! I have a couple physical problems, like tendonitis in my feet that flame up after extreme activity. I toughed it out for football all four years of high school and it was hell, I couldn't walk to my bed after practice, I had to literally crawl. how pathetic
 
Mclovin: In my prior life, by training I was a CPA, Masters in Computer Science and a heavy Paralegal degree. I don't say this to brag, you just need to know where the cheap advice comes from.

I spent my career salvaging businesses in trouble. Twenty years ago I dropped out at age of 50 as everything was paid for and I found something else I wanted to do with my life. I saw the collapse and reset coming and I wanted to play a part in the saving of our country. It appeared that my whole life experience was in training to do this.
I have been involved in this change we are going through for over ten years. I'm just a small bit player. But I see clearly what is happening. So allow me to give you some things to consider.

First: You already hit the jackpot with advice from Proud Prepper with his:
"If you havent sold the Crypto, then you have nothing.
To prepare, sell the Crypto and buy gold, silver, and hard valuable assets."

Purchase Silver Eagles. They will cost you about $30 each and will be worth between $1,000 and $3,000 each soon.
In regards to the cryptos, you are playing another man's game and will most likely get screwed. The physical silver is guaranteed to never lose money for you and can only make you wealthy. Get out immediately. The overall gain is too great compared to milking a few more dollars out of cryptos. Always analyze the risk with the gain in making decisions. Keeping cryptos is too risky compared to the gains of physical silver.
See attached file on how to purchase silver. Note that it was written several years ago. Be leery of ordering online.
Email me at [email protected] if more info is needed.
This move wins the ballgame for you in one easy step. Get the points on the board and sleep at nights when all others are crying.

Second:
You are the Captain of your own ship and Master of your own destiny.
If many pilots are grounded for life then that may open doors for pilots. But if you have been vaxxed you may want to consider slowing down on the flight training to see what develops in the next six months regarding the Vax impact on your health and if it's reversible or not.

Third. Know this, management school teaches you a lot and then again it doesn't. Let me share this with you first.

When I was 22 I was going to night college as a Management major, making straight "As" and thinking I was learning it all.
I got tricked into becoming a Scoutmaster, something I knew nothing about. After working with the boys and trying to learn more than they knew and at the same time learning how to run an organization, I learned one fact clearly. I realized Scouting taught the older boys how to run organizations just like I was learning; it was teaching leadership, that which can't be learned from a book.

I realized in a few years I would be competing with them and it scared the hell out of me. I changed my major to accounting as it was the hardest subject I had ever studied. I figured most people would avoid it giving me an edge.

Now know this: You don't have time to finish your degree. The collapse is happening now. Business school teaches business growth only, not shrinking or surviving depression or collapse like we are in now. You would be better off picking the courses that will promote you without the degree. I will discuss this later.

If the Vax and the collapse works on peoples' minds, there will be a great loss of leaders. Generally you would get your degree but never be a leader until after age 30 to 35. But with the possible die off and medical problems from the VAx, I see 22 year olds with the right experience taking over, possibly with coaching by older folks working just a few hours a week. (I can expand on this another time as well).

Global corporations will collapse forcing local small businesses to step up and fill the business voids. That will be you in some way. A retailer with experience may know retail but not have the business understanding to run the organization. During this time doers will get the jobs over the ones with degrees. Owners will be desperate for creators; you will be a creator, a rain maker. You already are.
 

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Mclovin: Focus on Business law right away, even if its self study. You can challenge the exam and get credit for it for free later.
Self study Project Management. I can help you there.
Then go to Organizational Change, self study if needed.
You can knock these three things out in three months if you put your mind to it.

Note: Project Mgt. is not taught in college. This moves you to the top.
Business law should be your passion because for a year or so businesses will be operating in the wild west as the world is recreated.
You will have to be comfortable with making contracts. This too moves you to the top.
Note:
He who writes the contract controls the deal.

You must learn to plan your work and then work your plan. This is not taught in college; must be done by self study or lots of experience which you don't have time for.

In an interview tell this to the owner, that you "saw it coming and planned for it." I guarantee you to be hired over others.

I am probably overloading you so I will stop.
If you want more let me know but just sleep on what I have suggested.
You are fighting a time clock now. You can't plan for two years out.
You are about to be pushed into leadership in a year. Learn the basics you will need to survive in the role you will be in.

Best of luck to you! It's been an honor to serve you sir.
 
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Many interesting things said immediately above.

Continuing the topic, I don't see cities as being the future, given the current rate of events. Living in cities is actually more efficient as a society with current technology, since people, goods and infrastructure is more condensed. But that might not be the case in the future. There's some serious technological innovation going on these days, and it might very well be that living in the middle of nowhere is better on all parameters (even discounting a SHTF scenario).

College/university degrees are continually becoming more and more worthless on average. You still have to go to medical school to become a physician, and to become a serious computer engineer/scientist you still need a degree in computer science. But I think academia will implode some time "soon" because they're building their ivory towers on straws. From the outside it looks really professional, but once you get a good look inside it's about 95% fake, smoke and mirrors. That's simply not sustainable. Nowadays there's all this nonsensical relativism, Marxism and feminism, and that's definitely not doing academia any good, although select professors benefit from it. 50% of those who graduate from college/university in USA are doing work unrelated to their education. Majority of colleges/universities are simply businesses cashing in on naive young people, but a lot of people are catching on.

On another note, which is probably not news at all, is that you should definitely be very VERY picky about who you associate with. There's plenty of abhorrent idiots out there. I've definitely suffered under "friends" and "family" who do everything to cut you down and humiliate/make fun of you for having a grander life in mind, and simply for trying more, doing more. Associate with these and they will have their negative effect on you, even in ways you cannot possibly be aware of. If they try to step on you, you punch them in the nose. You have to, it's you or them, unfortunately. And as David Goggins said, don't kill them with kindness, torture them with f****** success.
 
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Amen Brother Ammo!! So true. I suspect a great many colleges will close in 2022.

Mclovin: On two occasions I was told to train owners' kids to take over the family business.
At the beginning of the second business succession project I wrote the following manual for the kid.
Hope it helps someone.
 

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In my experience in managing companies with many thousands of employees, people with college degrees are dime a dozen. Seems like everyone has a 4 year degree in pushing buttons on a computer. Hiring tradesmen was a lot more difficult. I always recommend to young people to go to trade school and learn a skill. Thanks to the school system pushing computer careers or soft jobs, over the last 30 years there is now an enormous shortage of skilled workers. Welding, fabrication, pipe fitting, mechanics, equipment operators, truck driver, etc are in high demand, plus the pay is very good. Any of these trades are much more rewarding than sitting on your asre all day looking at a computer screen.
There are also overseas jobs and oil field jobs that are rotational. My wife and I worked for many years where we got 6 months vacation every year, and still made far more money than a local job. I never could understand why anyone would work 50 weeks out of the year and only get 2 weeks vacation when there are other option available.
 
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Mclovin: Focus on Business law right away, even if its self study. You can challenge the exam and get credit for it for free later.
Self study Project Management. I can help you there.
Then go to Organizational Change, self study if needed.
You can knock these three things out in three months if you put your mind to it.

Note: Project Mgt. is not taught in college. This moves you to the top.
Business law should be your passion because for a year or so businesses will be operating in the wild west as the world is recreated.
You will have to be comfortable with making contracts. This too moves you to the top.
Note:
He who writes the contract controls the deal.

You must learn to plan your work and then work your plan. This is not taught in college; must be done by self study or lots of experience which you don't have time for.

In an interview tell this to the owner, that you "saw it coming and planned for it." I guarantee you to be hired over others.

I am probably overloading you so I will stop.
If you want more let me know but just sleep on what I have suggested.
You are fighting a time clock now. You can't plan for two years out.
You are about to be pushed into leadership in a year. Learn the basics you will need to survive in the role you will be in.

Best of luck to you! It's been an honor to serve you sir.
Wow thank you so much for your help. I've taken an introductory business law class, but I will absolutely start studying some more. I have a bit of management experience since I have the 2nd shift manager at my job, I have a great relationship with the owners and I could absolutely see myself working in the management side in the next few years
 
Are you ready for more work / learning?

Review the 2 page outline on the Project Management Booklet DAILY (just the headers).
That will get you 80% into Project Mgt. alone.

Your next step is to cheat and Read Peoples' Minds.

This will take you two hours to watch a one hour video twice.
Be sure to learn this with a friend, partner or close relative.
It will be like learning a foreign language that must be spoken with another to lock it in your brain.
This normally takes a lifetime to learn and most people never see it.

Be sure to print and take the 15 minute test first; it will prove that what you are learning is real.
If you can't print in any way I can slow mail all you need.
McLovin, In case you are wondering, you are either a Choleric or Choleric/Sanguine. I bet C/S.

See: Spotting Personalities.

You are going to learn in one hour what most people never learn at all!
Happy hunting.

P.S. Hang on to your law book or purchase another similar one in a thrift store for a buck.
 
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In my experience in managing companies with many thousands of employees, people with college degrees are dime a dozen.

Yup. My college professor, who spent decades in the defense electronics industries, said that a college degree will get you in the door, but after that if you don’t produce then you’ll be out the door.
 
Jayson: With the exception of medicine, engineering and other technical majors, I suspect college just teaches one the basics and buzz words so they can hit the streets and really learn their profession.

But I will add this. A defining moment for me was when I had to visit a professor in his office.
He had a large homemade sign that said "If we all waited to be perfect before doing anything, nothing would ever get done."
 
Are you ready for more work / learning?

Review the 2 page outline on the Project Management Booklet DAILY (just the headers).
That will get you 80% into Project Mgt. alone.

Your next step is to cheat and Read Peoples' Minds.

This will take you two hours to watch a one hour video twice.
Be sure to learn this with a friend, partner or close relative.
It will be like learning a foreign language that must be spoken with another to lock it in your brain.
This normally takes a lifetime to learn and most people never see it.

Be sure to print and take the 15 minute test first; it will prove that what you are learning is real.
If you can't print in any way I can slow mail all you need.
McLovin, In case you are wondering, you are either a Choleric or Choleric/Sanguine. I bet C/S.

See: Spotting Personalities.

You are going to learn in one hour what most people never learn at all!
Happy hunting.

P.S. Hang on to your law book or purchase another similar one in a thrift store for a buck.
Thats such a great resource, I'm going to go through it tonight after work. I'll let you know how it went, thanks so much!
 
Yup. My college professor, who spent decades in the defense electronics industries, said that a college degree will get you in the door, but after that if you don’t produce then you’ll be out the door.
Exactly. Many of the "educated" people I hired I would tell them to forget most of what they learned in school, now we'll teach them what they need to know.
I never stepped foot in college. My first management job was at 24 in a heavy welding/fabrication shop. I retired at 57 as a VP in a major oil company. Just shows that a person can be very successful without wasting 4 years in college.
 
We're totalling overloading mclovinUSA, but I'm gonna suggest anyway you begin "studying" philosophy. Not in school/college/university/online courses, just buy some books or use the many great free web ressources out there, and do it in your spare time. I can recommend a ton of material if you want. You will NOT regret letting philosophy into your life, just make sure it's the real philosophy (logic, scientific theory, critical thinking, etc.), not the feminism/gender studies stuff. You might think that you have no need for philosophy, given that you want to do business management. Reconsider. You have to experience yourself why, I can only guarantee that if you genuinely commit to philosophy you will not regret it ever.

Your next step is to cheat and Read Peoples' Minds.

I've learned in my life that what one should assess first and foremost when being with (new) people is their emotional state, not what they are saying or thinking. You still have to listen of course, and consider what they might be thinking, but only second to their emotional state. Say, someone having a cocky attitude who suddenly wants to talk politics, then something is up. If you don't detect the cockyness, you'd think he actually just wanna talk politics with no sinister hidden intentions.

Yup. My college professor, who spent decades in the defense electronics industries, said that a college degree will get you in the door, but after that if you don’t produce then you’ll be out the door.

Actually, I got a book on the subject with stories about people working at companies and not doing the slightest work for decades. I specifically remember some engineer admitting at his resignation that he hadn't done any work the last two decades. Not because he was lazy, management simply didn't put him to work for some time after a change of ownership in the company. He kept informing them, asking for stuff to do, but in the end he just gave up, and then spent two decades getting a normal engineering salary while doing nothing. I think this has become really common in big companies, especially Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and so on, and in government of course. The ship is so big that it's impossible to make sure everyone's actually doing something. Meanwhile there are numerous much smaller startups that kick ass and get their products and services up and running fast and successfully, basically working 20 times faster than behemoth Microsoft. More is not necessarily merrier, and it's definitely not necessarily more productive. Altough it's a good rule to have, work or get booted.
 
Exactly. Many of the "educated" people I hired I would tell them to forget most of what they learned...

The best lesson I learned was during my first day on the job straight out of college. A colleague introduced herself and said “Don’t trust anyone.” Gulp.
 
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