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Post by spinifex on Oct 27, 2017 20:01:40 GMT 10
Apologies if there's already a thread here on this subject:
Does anyone here suffer from 'high alert' burnout?
I put in a lot of time, mental effort, physical effort and money into really ramping up my prep-status from 2006-2009. When 2008 rolled by without significant upheaval I decided living on too high alert level was becoming counterproductive for my life enjoyment and well-being. Since 2009 I've really dialed back my activities and news monitoring. Stuff like the current NK fiasco, bird flu outbreaks, plague outbreaks etc just doesn't bother me any more.
I do sometimes think that now I will likely be dismissive of a genuine 'major' supply chain disruption or public health crisis until very late in the game.
How do other people here feel about the 'work-life balance' of being prepared?
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Post by Joey on Oct 27, 2017 21:12:06 GMT 10
I haven't had much at all of the last 2 mths for anything really prep related. If I'm not working my regular job, I'm at home trying to get ahead with my own business trying so hard to get a large order for a member on here while dealing with other small orders in between. And if not that, then it's my committee work for the SFFP taking up my night times, and if not any of that it's family time and doing the odd trip 200km away to the big town on the 1 weekend a month I'm not working my regular job. At the moment I barely have enough time to sit down on my computer and catch up on my tv shows and such. Also really needing badly to move out of this unit and into a actual house as now my business has taken up the entire lounge room and the missus is forever ing and moaning about it lol let alone have any room for secret prep food hoarding. As already the missus is threatening to throw out a few cans of baked beans I do have in the cupboard "because I never eat them" But when I get more room, I'll buy another steel cupboard from Bunnings that will be perfect for hiding food away for the cyclone days  And the missus ain't going to like it if I get a transfer at work out of the workshop and into the blast crew, as I'll have to bring all my tools home..2x large 2m tall x 1.5m wide tool lockers full of them lol |
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Post by remnantprep on Oct 27, 2017 21:15:50 GMT 10
I have suffered from prepper burnout as well and I feel it is a common thing. As a prepper we can overthink things sometimes and I also tend to overwatch what is happening. I have come to the conclusion that if a really big event occurs we will know ahead of time just through picking up bits of info here and there. If you are prepared as well as you can be then you will most likely be fine. Spend as much time enjoying the things you like to do as you do on being prepared then you will have some balance
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Post by gasman on Oct 28, 2017 6:21:23 GMT 10
Prepping waxes and wanes with other commitments work family etc
Having a rest for a while doesn't hurt
If you have property I find the burnout less as food growing firewood animals workshop etc make it far more interesting than just buying and storing stuff( and upsetting the wife)
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Post by spatial on Oct 28, 2017 6:22:19 GMT 10
To some prepping is a hobby - I used to think I was wasting lots of money till I visited a work mate of mine, He collects toy cars and trucks - has very many thousands of them and sits in his garage and paints them, spends endless time on the internet trading with them etc... He has prob spent way more money on his hobby than I have spent on prepping - majority of my prepping stuff is useful like all the camping gear, firearms, weather station and room full of food. I have got to the point I cant think of much more to purchase other than a few big ticket items (off grid solar, communication, sandbags, bunker etc).
I have been thinking that from next year I must start a part time second income stream like Joey but will be doing something very different - need to reduce the amount of time I spend reading news and financial markets, but things are so crazy at the moment we are in very late stage bull market and things could fail any day, 2008 GFC was nothing compared to today's debt and money printing - now is not the time to get fatigued but push through as I am expecting bad things to happen on a global scale very soon.
Puerto Rico has already had a SHTF event and some of those islands are now uninhabited for the first time in 300years..
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Post by SA Hunter on Oct 28, 2017 21:53:15 GMT 10
Preparing is just one part of my hectic life - sure sometimes I do nothing about it, sometimes I am like a bull in a china shop.
Yes, I have a few "no more for a while" moments, I get that with work, home life, hobbies etc. It's good every now and then to have a break, and re charge the preparedness batteries!
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Post by Fractus on Oct 31, 2017 15:18:54 GMT 10
Aptly timed. I have been a little on the slow side for a while. But as gasman said with a bit of land you are always doing something for food production. What amuses me about my behaviour is this is a time of serious events occurring almost everywhere and yet I watch with only passing interest. Is that because I am comfortable with my preps or burnout.
I will have to ponder.
The meet at Gasman’s made me realise I don’t have enough gille suits
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Post by spinifex on Oct 31, 2017 20:13:58 GMT 10
Aptly timed. I have been a little on the slow side for a while. But as gasman said with a bit of land you are always doing something for food production. What amuses me about my behaviour is this is a time of serious events occurring almost everywhere and yet I watch with only passing interest. Is that because I am comfortable with my preps or burnout. I will have to ponder. The meet at Gasman’s made me realise I don’t have enough gille suits I thinks there's only so much 'high alert' an average human brain can handle before it dulls out. At some point 'alarming' just becomes the 'new normal'. The problem with that is that's when you find yourself being overtaken by events. |
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Post by perthprepper on Nov 4, 2017 0:49:19 GMT 10
Good post.
A phrase I like, which I heard in a different context, is "preparation, not prediction". It's about having systems, supplies and knowledge in place for when something goes wrong, rather than being able to predict what or when something will go wrong. And yeah if it's lowering your quality of life in the absence of a prep-related event, then in my view it's time to have a look at how you can improve how you're thinking about things. No point being ready for the zombie apocalypse if you can't go out and enjoy a relatively safe day that you have right now. But for me, prepping is an enjoyable hobby that ties in to things i already like, eg camping, fitness, shooting, general know-how... so even if things don't go wrong it's a great thing to do
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Post by graynomad on Nov 5, 2017 23:02:36 GMT 10
... Is that because I am comfortable with my preps or burnout. ... Bit of both with me I think. So many "it's gonna happen on the 23rd of September" posts on various venues, and nothing ever happens. But then I'm also reasonably comfortable with my level of preparedness. Truth is most of the likely events (recession, depression, stock market crash, local war in NK/Iran/wherever, even maybe WW3) will have little or no effect on me. All that said I think I need to up the ante a bit in some areas, most notably physical fitness and ammo. |
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Post by gasman on Nov 6, 2017 5:33:00 GMT 10
I think the older you get the more times you've lived thru " the world is going to end on___) the more cynical u get!!
When I was a teenager Nostradamus was all the rage
To me prepping has common themes((food water shelter defence) and I enjoy all the things associated with it
These themes are the same not matter the scenario-bushfire solar flare etc
While we can't influence what will happen the preps are the same
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Post by spinifex on Nov 6, 2017 18:40:17 GMT 10
Good post. A phrase I like, which I heard in a different context, is "preparation, not prediction". It's about having systems, supplies and knowledge in place for when something goes wrong, rather than being able to predict what or when something will go wrong. And yeah if it's lowering your quality of life in the absence of a prep-related event, then in my view it's time to have a look at how you can improve how you're thinking about things. No point being ready for the zombie apocalypse if you can't go out and enjoy a relatively safe day that you have right now. But for me, prepping is an enjoyable hobby that ties in to things i already like, eg camping, fitness, shooting, general know-how... so even if things don't go wrong it's a great thing to do I agree with your sentiment regarding 'prediction'. Then there is the important task of 'forecasting'. Generating a forecast of near-future conditions is a key characteristic of successful business planning in many sectors from Agriculture to Investment. To do that one must monitor, filter and analyse a lot of information. That's the part I'm really getting sick of these days. Harder to make sound business and financial decisions than ever before. I feel sorry for youngsters these days trying to decide whether to take the plunge and buy a house and risk it losing capital value ... or just keep renting ... or buy bitcoin (bit late now!) ... or even what kind of career they can get into to best avoid losing their job to AI and automation 5 to 10 years from now. All this stuff is part of the preparation spectrum and there's so much guff being pumped into MSM and the Webosphere it's hard to find the actual important stuff and shape a plan that heads you in a reasonable direction. Basic preparation for food, water, shelter, power, defence etc I just 'set and forget' ... It's the big picture stuff that get so damn draining after a while. |
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