Escaping IT

U8MyData writes: What does someone do who is not in the "community" at large, lives in a rural community where the story has been "more with less" for the last decade do to replace a livelyhod? Not surely a popular subject with the techical types, but I'm done with this. Surely, there are things that are transferable to other careers, but the income is not. What to do? Any advise or experiences out there? Thx...