I can buy stuff, learn stuff and do stuff for prepping but I have a lot of anxiety on who to welcome, who is not welcome and who to invite in the event of a SHTF scenario.
I have a good handful of family around the country who all say "let's go to Uncle Fizbin's place" if something happens. Whereas I'm flattered and can use the personnel for LP/OP's, defense, gardening, livestock, maintenance, and more, a some of these "family members", lazy, have no skills, and worse,,, some have health maintenance issues. Some have as I call it people baggage as well, maybe they are an asset but their spouse would be a liability. Some have like 3 or 4 young kids, some are very old.
How do you tell the baggage people not to come?
An example, I have a son-in-law who is great, but he would need to invite his mom and dad, a sister and her husband and 4 young kids, another sister with her 3 young kids and a twist she and her husband are getting a divorce. Do I tell my daughter and SIL they can come but none or only part of his family?
What do I say about 86 year old granny in a wheel chair and takes like 20 pills a day, coming here? Actually we'd have to send transport about 100 miles round trip to get her.
Then there are the out of state family members who would bring virtually no physical assets or supplies. What do you do or say if they just show up?
Next, I am very very short on personnel. I NEED people just to man watches alone. How do I find these types of folks. I have a couple of employees at work I know would be great, but then again I know they have family baggage. What ideas do you have to grow your compound numbers?
I have started a spreadsheet of all the people I know that would come. I have a column for Skills, Health, Family Baggage, shot distance away for quick arrival, long distance for maybe popping up in weeks or months, and monetary or survival assets.
The only solution I have for this would be to reach out to the folks on my list and ask them what exactly their intentions would be. If they would come for sure I would send them a list of skills that would be needed here. They could choose from the list what they would want to learn and bring to the table.
I'm fortunate enough to have been able to buy tons of near every hard asset needed, but skills and people, I can't do it all.
What other ideas would you have on personnel, I'm sure there are a bunch of things I'm overlooking.
I have a good handful of family around the country who all say "let's go to Uncle Fizbin's place" if something happens. Whereas I'm flattered and can use the personnel for LP/OP's, defense, gardening, livestock, maintenance, and more, a some of these "family members", lazy, have no skills, and worse,,, some have health maintenance issues. Some have as I call it people baggage as well, maybe they are an asset but their spouse would be a liability. Some have like 3 or 4 young kids, some are very old.
How do you tell the baggage people not to come?
An example, I have a son-in-law who is great, but he would need to invite his mom and dad, a sister and her husband and 4 young kids, another sister with her 3 young kids and a twist she and her husband are getting a divorce. Do I tell my daughter and SIL they can come but none or only part of his family?
What do I say about 86 year old granny in a wheel chair and takes like 20 pills a day, coming here? Actually we'd have to send transport about 100 miles round trip to get her.
Then there are the out of state family members who would bring virtually no physical assets or supplies. What do you do or say if they just show up?
Next, I am very very short on personnel. I NEED people just to man watches alone. How do I find these types of folks. I have a couple of employees at work I know would be great, but then again I know they have family baggage. What ideas do you have to grow your compound numbers?
I have started a spreadsheet of all the people I know that would come. I have a column for Skills, Health, Family Baggage, shot distance away for quick arrival, long distance for maybe popping up in weeks or months, and monetary or survival assets.
The only solution I have for this would be to reach out to the folks on my list and ask them what exactly their intentions would be. If they would come for sure I would send them a list of skills that would be needed here. They could choose from the list what they would want to learn and bring to the table.
I'm fortunate enough to have been able to buy tons of near every hard asset needed, but skills and people, I can't do it all.
What other ideas would you have on personnel, I'm sure there are a bunch of things I'm overlooking.