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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsName something that you are very good at? Mine is jewelry making. Don't be shy, What's yours?
MiHale
(12,817 posts)And creative cooking.
debm55
(58,446 posts)Endlessmike56
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(58,446 posts)Layzeebeaver
(2,219 posts)Or to phrase is another way, Ive spent my lifetime learning skills that I will never have.
Other than that, Im pretty good at my job - fixing projects that are off track.
debm55
(58,446 posts)3catwoman3
(29,004 posts)...when to worry and when not to, so they could have a more relaxed parenting experience.
Most first time parents are scared to pieces because they get home with their precious new baby and realize they don't know a damned thing, so everything scares them - hiccups, sneezing, spitting up, all the different colors of poop, you name it. It was common to walk into an exam room to see parents with anxious faces and their shoulders up near their ears with tension. And, it was very gratifying to see smiles on their faces and relaxed shoulders after they'd spent half an hour with me.
If I could have restricted my appointments to new parents and young babies, I'd probably still be working. Just shy of turning 70 in 2021, the prospect of another summer doing school and sports physicals on dramatic, hypochondriacal teenage girls filled me with dread, and it was time to hang up the stethoscope.
I have found out that I have something of a talent for making earrings and beaded bracelets. I've never had any sort of artistic hobby. I can't paint, draw, or sculpt. I don't knit, crochet, needlepoint, sew, or scrapbook. So, this is a very recent endeavor - about a year at most.
Friends and family members keep telling me I should open an ETSY shop but no way, for 2 reasons - I'm a terrible procrastinator, so customers would be pissed off about how long it would take me to mail things, and if I were trying to sell my creations, it would be something I felt I had to do, and then I wouldn't want to.
debm55
(58,446 posts)them. I used to make teddy bears . But it was a hit or miss business. Went to craft shows to sell.TY for sharing.
FM123
(10,350 posts)Many years ago my dear aunt surprised me with boxes of beautiful supplies and gifted me with the love of crafting. I still think of her when I make cards for friends and family.
debm55
(58,446 posts)Goonch
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(58,446 posts)NNadir
(37,633 posts)...understanding issues in Energy and the Environment.
My greatest thing ever at being good at something, was in convincing my wife to fall in love with me, as I was in love with her.
debm55
(58,446 posts)malthaussen
(18,507 posts)debm55
(58,446 posts)WheelWalker
(9,389 posts)Pattern recognition and synthesis. I give good thought.
debm55
(58,446 posts)cloudbase
(6,229 posts)I don't know about that, but my cooking has never sent anyone to the hospital.
I can copy Morse code at 35 words per minute.
debm55
(58,446 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,554 posts)on a wet basement floor after chugging a six-pack. Just kidding. Im not very good at that particular sport.
Actually, Im considered a force of nature when it comes to the card game cribbage.
debm55
(58,446 posts)Flo Mingo
(502 posts)I have a way of inviting people to look at things differently. To bring them home to their own strengths and wisdom and connection to their source. I help people clean off all the shoulds that have been should upon them to get to their own truth instead of living the truths they've been told.
debm55
(58,446 posts)LoisB
(12,647 posts)Dorothy V
(479 posts)debm55
(58,446 posts)LoisB
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(58,446 posts)Wuddles440
(2,032 posts)would respond with an enthusiastic "making whoopee", but instead I got an emphatic "making a mess of everything". Apparently bolstering my self esteem is something that she's not very good at.
Ocelot II
(129,864 posts)Alansworld
(22 posts)Ive built a few as well. Its going to be my side business after I retire next year.
The Wizard
(13,644 posts)True Dough
(26,183 posts)Please let me be shy!
