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Do you have any useful skills?
#22038913 - 08/03/15 06:38 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hello. As the title says. Do you have any skills? Maybe you are good with computers. Maybe you know how to fix a broken toilet. Maybe you speak more than one language. Maybe you know how to fix cars. Anything you can think of.
How did you come to master this skill? Did you go to school? Did you learn it from your dad/mom, or older brothers or sisters? Did a friend teach you? Or were you self-taught? If you taught yourself how to do it, then I must say it's truly amazing.
I don't have any skills except that I am bilingual (English and Mandarin). I have my "skill" because I grew up speaking it. Other than this I don't have any skills whatsoever.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: WAN]
#22039271 - 08/03/15 07:40 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I pretty dang skilled at making a homemade bong 
Also, i can make a pretty mean combustion, rocket-launcher style potato gun. Works good too 
I learned these skills from playing around with handtools and various household items as a kid. And got better at it as i grew up
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I feel like saying my skill is I'm good at video games is so lame lol but can't think of anything else
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: Psilocybend]
#22039379 - 08/03/15 07:57 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, im pretty good at video games too. Not useful at all.
I was pretty good at the multiplayer in various Halo's. Nothing beats the feeling of being on a killing spree and not dieing.
Not sure if thats a "skill".
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#22040140 - 08/03/15 10:58 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can sew and have experience fabricating and making costumes, I have experience working with electrics, programming lighting and sound, and design when it comes to lighting, costumes and visual arts. I'm computer savvy and have a good grip on a couple different programming languages(primarily geared towards front-end stuff, but it's just the beginning of my journey into this field).
I also have been riding and training horses for most of my life, though don't get much of a chance to ride these days. I think I'm very good with animals in general, for the most part I 'get' them and I understand how they grasp new things(and how different animals are in terms of work ethic and motivation) so it's easier to clearly communicate with them.
I'm a recreational scuba diver, but I wouldn't consider much of that a skill in terms of practicality or professionally, at least until I venture into the technical realm. But with diving and certifications come skills such as underwater navigation and being able to ID a lot of sea critters. I can also tapdance, but I'm one rusty motherfucker and that's kind of in the same vein as diving.
I'm also a pretty decent cook, as in I can put together a decent, fresh meal that's pretty damn good(I have Sicilian uncles who have been running a bakery for generations, so cooking is very much a 'thing' on my mother's side of the family) but I'm not anywhere near professional level and totally respect the skill needed to be a chef.
Edited by pirate-blues (08/03/15 11:44 PM)
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#22040153 - 08/03/15 11:01 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: 1234go] 3
#22040167 - 08/03/15 11:05 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I caught you a delicious bass.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: 1234go] 1
#22040168 - 08/03/15 11:05 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I got mad skillz. Watch out.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: WAN]
#22040193 - 08/03/15 11:12 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I actually have a LOT of skills. Not really the best at any of them. I'm a jack of all trades. I can do everything from knit and cook (not from recipes, but "just wing it" with whatever ingredients I have on hand) to fixing cars. It's really all based on my drive for creativity though.
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DTCharlieB
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Roofing, siding, carpentry, various other house building skills. My dad built 2 houses that we lived in when I was growing up and I helped him build them. He built 95 percent of the work himself. Pretty much everything except laying block and some of the concrete work. Then I worked for another guy doing roofing and siding later on but he paid crapola, so my dad offered to help me and my brother build a roofing and siding business. He taught me alot but he also had a career working at a power plant and just did this to help us out. So I learned a lot by just teaching myself to do things. My brother and myself do most of the work now and my dad takes care of the paperwork, taxes, and estimates which is a a lot of work and he still works at the plant.
I really appreciate everything my dad has done for me, my mom also, and it really taught me how strong family bonds are and one day soon I will teach my son's these things, not just construction but everything else my dad has taught me, and if they want to work with me one day that would be fantastic but I am also pushing schooling and will support them in whatever they choose to do.
They are still very young though so there's alot of time before they decide what they want to do. I just hope I can install the hard work and importance of education in my son's as my dad did in my brother and me.
Oh ya anyone remember that show "My Brother and Me" it was on nickeloden in the 90s. They had a friend named Goo. I remember one episode I particular where Goo wants to make his own soft drink called "Goo Punch". Then he makes a music video. Goooooooooo punch everybody say goood punch. Get your drink on Good punch.
It went something like that. It was pretty good.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22040204 - 08/03/15 11:16 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, it's fun to learn knew things, and if you work at it then normally you can get decently proficient faster than you think(provided you have any aptitude).
I would say the only thing I really consider myself even close to mastering(and I'm staunchly of the opinion that you can never stop learning or improving no matter your experience - I'm really talking more my confidence in my abilities to function in advanced areas) would, as stupid as it sounds, be riding. Only because I've been doing it for close to two decades and had a lot of instruction and coaching.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: pirate-blues]
#22040229 - 08/03/15 11:27 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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That is fantastic. I have always been interested in riding horses just have never had the opportunity.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: pirate-blues] 1
#22040250 - 08/03/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Novice carpenter (learned from my father/ self taught) Certified chef (went to trade school for four years) Creative/artistic (born that way/runs in the family) Creative writing/poems/short novels (runs in the family) Learning new things fast (personality) Beginner electrician and plumber (father taught me) Beginner roofer (doing jobs over the summer) Beginner gardener (lady friends teaching me currently) Beginner mycologists ( self taught) Novice self taught psychologist (well I know quite a bit about psycholigy mainly abnormal mental illnesses and medications) Novice special effects makeup artist (self taught) Bad ass soccer goalie (trained/self taught) athletic in general Keeping my sanity (trust me it's a skill)
Errrmmmm I can't think of anymore right now my dad taught me lots of stuff how to fix things and what not Oh I'm also a wicked tree climber I'm like a monkey I love being in the woods I usd to just sit in a Pine tree in my back yard 30 feet in the air just thinking and staring at the sky Lol horse riding and quad riding too I love that stuff
I'm also a great shot with a rifle and a 12 or 22 gauge shot gun I one a turkey at a shooting range contest against a bunch of guys when I was like 16 lol I suck at hang guns though
I shot a rock about the size of a soccer ball or some kind of small ball about 200 yards away with a 222 rifle with a scope and blew it up like a bag of flour (222 is a rare gun I think Remington made they don't make the pm anymore I think don't take my word for it but I know it was a 222
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: WAN]
#22040274 - 08/03/15 11:49 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nope.
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#22040356 - 08/04/15 12:29 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can calculate the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: SteveRogers]
#22040359 - 08/04/15 12:31 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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is that with or without the mass of the coconut?
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Well I'll just some skills i have that are on the top of my head.
I am a good archer, not a master archer though. Learned through tons of practice, and basic techniques from my uncle.
I can hunt, track, skin, and butcher. Also know how to use every part of a kill.
I know how to make a bow and arrows. Learned from uncle.
Good at video games. Self taught.
Can garden, though not my best strong suit.
Decent mycologist, though no master. Self taught.
I'm learning to fly a helicopter, just started trying to a few weeks ago. So i got a long way to go.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: WAN]
#22040623 - 08/04/15 04:18 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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I started programming as a kid, writing macros to help me in Runescape And I essentially took that and ran with it. I can read code of almost any high level programming language and can write decent/solid html, php, sql, JavaScript, and Java.
Other than that I can fix electronic devices (phones, watches, controllers) more often than not.
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: ModestMouse]
#22040678 - 08/04/15 05:03 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well I can draw some pretty trippy stuff, gotta start doing that more regularly so I can develop my skills
I can play guitar pretty well, I used to know a shitload of tablature but my memory's become rusty as of late, gotta work on that too
I can also sing quite well and do some nasty black metal vocals
I'm also pretty decent at chemistry and following teks, I mix my own ejuice and have extracted substances such as hash oil and DMT
I'm a pretty smart cookie but I don't really exercise my full potential
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Re: Do you have any useful skills? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#22040941 - 08/04/15 07:16 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
OhMrJohnson said: I'm a pretty smart cookie but I don't really exercise my full potential
You're in good company here
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