Do You Have A Plan B, If All Else Fails ?

[Monoriu]

There is no Plan B.  Plan A must work.

[Jacob]

I don't think I've ever had much of a plan A even.

[Josquius]

We own land in Argentina.  I s'pose we could pull up stakes, move down there & build our llama empire.  Or do the boring but more lucrative thing & grow soybeans.

Or a Hitler themed amusement park.

[Mr.Penguin]

I have been living my plan B the last 12 years, it has worked fine so far...

[Tonitrus]

Plan A:  Work until retirement pension become available.

Plan B/C (preferably taken after success of Plan A): Teach english overseas(prefer Japan), ala Timmah and the others, or try to get a job in a National Park somewhere.

The potential flaw in Plan B:  Single, mid-40ish (at time of retirement) wannabe overseas English teachers probably rank high on the "creepy" factor for potential employers.

And heck, in 13 years, Japan will probably have translating sexbots anyway.

[Martinus]

Maybe a bit off-kilter, but I really have had suicide ready as Plan B for at least 5 years.  Or even as Plan A at certain moments.  But what other card do you need with that in your deck?

Which is why I advocate people having a serious plan B, I've know of people who've been motoring along fine on plan A, doing all that society expect of them, suddenly several serious things happen that demolish plan A and they've no plan B, can't cope and so go straight to what I call plan C - suicide.

I think some of these tragic husband loses job/house and/or marriage/kid access and then commits murder-suicide news stories may have some origination in people not being prepared if unexpectedly the 2.2 children happily ever after/'the American Dream' suddenly goes tits up. 

And that's why I think everyone should always have a 'escape strategy', a realistic Plan B ready if the unexpected happens.

I can see this working for the job/house thing, but I don't think many people plan in terms of "Plan B: What will I do when my wife leaves me or my kids die." Unless they are psychopaths.

Are you a psychopath, mongers?

[jimmy olsen]

I noticed today that one of the guys in my class had ring fingers that were longer then his middle fingers.

I thought about asking if he was a psycopath, I decided not to for obvious reasons.

[mongers]

Time for Plan B.    

[Valmy]

My plan of last resort is to move to the family land my ancestors stole in Oklahoma and take up grain and soy bean farming.  God I hope it never comes to that but it is nice to know I can whenever I want to as none of my cousins are likely to take that option.

Of course there is the issue I know nothing about farming.

[Barrister]

Taking up farming isn't much of a Plan "B".  Very capital intensive.  You can make a great living at it, but it's just not something you can fall back to.

[C.C.R.]

I can see this working for the job/house thing, but I don't think many people plan in terms of "Plan B: What will I do when my wife leaves me or my kids die."

That's actually my Plan C -- my Plan B is dealing with The Zombie Apocalypse, which is a much more likely scenario...

[Ed Anger]

I've been thinking of using the land In Harlan county and building a Felsennest, a festung if society goes to shit.

[MadImmortalMan]

Taking up farming isn't much of a Plan "B".  Very capital intensive.  You can make a great living at it, but it's just not something you can fall back to.

I know a lot of farmers, but none of them make a great living at it. Most of them make barely enough to cover the finance costs on all that expensive shit they have to buy. Of course our whole agricultural sector is one big clusterfuck.

[Malthus]

Taking up farming isn't much of a Plan "B".  Very capital intensive.  You can make a great living at it, but it's just not something you can fall back to.

Perhaps his plan is to be a sort of reverse Oakie, and labour in the fields for others. That's doable. 

[Valmy]

Taking up farming isn't much of a Plan "B".  Very capital intensive.  You can make a great living at it, but it's just not something you can fall back to.

Yeah the farm has been a running enterprise for over 100 years.  I would just need to move there and take over management of it.