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You have 10 siblings and didn't attend any schools? What is the range of careers/skills everyone has? Any pods, like 3 of the youngest all learned the same skill together and went with that, like 3 engineers?



I'm a software engineer, I have a couple brothers in permaculture design, one is a gunsmith, and the rest are too young to be sure yet.

Plenty of shared knowledge, like gunsmithing is a hobby of mine, but he took it seriously. Still no real "pods".

I'd classify us as classically educated. We had somewhere around 5000 nonfiction books in the house, and most of us had read a significant chunk of them. Nobody has a bachelor's, but I suspect that'll change with some of the younger ones who are more patient.

Edit:

Some of us did do real school. I paid my way through an Associate's degree at 13 because I was bored. Also online classes, apprenticeships, stuff like that.




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