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Post by neko on Dec 19, 2012 6:24:57 GMT
Saw this when it was on eqd seemed interesting. Does seem to have slowed down considerably, only a couple posts in last week. Have tried a few things but nothing seems to have stuck as particularly talented. Would be nice to perhaps see what others who are also trying to find what they are good at are doing. Do hope that at least a few people have stuck around here.
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Post by lyrony on Dec 19, 2012 17:28:46 GMT
Hello, welcome to the boards, and yes it does seemed to have slowed down a bit in this last week, but more members can only help it speed up again.
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Post by duplexfields on Dec 24, 2012 8:04:32 GMT
Hi there. I'd been having trouble figuring out what I might be good at, and I'd just been fired from a file clerking job that had been, at the time, a bad fit. My dad said his boss had an assignment for me, if I was willing.
Over the next three years, I learned several things:
1. Being able to print any document exactly the way I wanted it to print is a salable business skill.
2. Instincts and talent run in the family - my parents are both in the printing, archiving, and reproduction business, my dad as a blueprint copyist and my mom as a scrapbooking consultant who helps others make photo albums.
3. Something as simple as knowing my way around file systems made me a perfect fit for an increasingly digitized print industry.
4. It sucks when you find your cutie mark just in time to get laid off from a job that utilized those skills to their fullest.
So, take an inventory of the most basic, menial skills you know. Then flip through the yellow pages and figure out if any random business would use a majority or minority of those skills.
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Post by neko on Dec 27, 2012 12:24:25 GMT
Hmmm... cannot say I understand entirely what happened in your description though very interesting to hear about what sounded like your finding what you were good at.
Your suggestion to apply skills to finding a similar fit in a business is a good idea but unsure whether can do that. Don't really have any skills that particularly stand out as good enough to distinguish from any other person. Perhaps the problem is lack of experience, have never really done anything except school so may not realize uses of some skills in the real world.
As for inherent talent/instinct: parents were probably considered pretty intelligent, only thing that seems to have been inherited is being very good at reading/thinking but though those are useful in a very large range of professions usually not a profession on their own.
Have heard from many sources that anything worth pursuing will take work to become good at. Trying to find something that would be able to support and have at least a bit of talent for. Have tried a few things but seem to have a hard time sticking to them thus far.
Again would ask to hear how others are looking for or how they have found what they were good at.
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