What’s something you’re really good at but don’t actually enjoy?

[Shandan35]

I would say washing up for myself.

Plumbing... I don't know how or why I know what I doing but I do. I don't hate doing it but it's certainly not my favourite thing, I'm also very good at catching animals (squirrels, birds, rodents etc) that come into buildings or escape. It's always me that gets called coz I'm so sensible 🙄

Concentrating on work with a baby/toddler. I can hold my train of thought on something complicated around being cried over/puked over/weed on and around toddlers insisting on using my hair as a safety rope just fine. I wrote perfectly well-respected articles and most of a book doing it, and all the whiny men tell you it's impossible and they need to send their kids to school because they're keyworkers.

I fucking hate it, though, and I would love never to do it again.

I imagine this currently describes many of us!

@sarahc336

Listening to people moan

Oh me too, me toooooooo. 😔

I wish I could stop them off loading but I’m too kind face to face.

Catastrophizing!

Running

Blow drying my hair.

Remembering things. I have a very good memory for detail and my head is so full of detail that it stresses me out. It is an asset at work but they do sometimes treat me as a tame encyclopedia.

When I was a young girl I did dance and loved tap. But I was better at ballet - which I hated. The school always pushed me to do ballet shows!

I ended up stopping it

Ironing.
I'm fast, precise, but God, is it boring.

Crochet, I can read any pattern and complete something like a virus shawl in under two hours. But I just don't like it at all.

Lots of things.
Cooking
Gardening
DIY/Decorating (REALLY hate this with a passion but do it anyway)
Sewing (as in making clothes using sewing machine)
Organisational skills (myself or others)
Cutting/Dyeing hair (DDs have me spending hours doing this, in various colours. Now have their friends asking if I’ll do theirs - don’t worry, I won’t!)
Art work (painting cards/cake decorating - that kind of thing)
Socialising/being the life and soul (I don’t look forward to it but do it anyway)
Basically, I’ve come to the conclusion that I enjoy hardly anything, and am a right miserable cow. Either that or I’m more depressed than I realise 🤷‍♀️

Some give the dishes and cutlery what my nan used to call a " hairs lick"

That’s known as ‘A lick and a promise here’

Data analysis and statistics

My bloody job.

How can you be good or bad at washing up?

You haven't met my ex

Tiling. I've tiled 7 bathrooms/ kitchens.

Call centre jobs. I hate talking on the phone
See also customer service. I don't like people

I suspect the phone dislike came after the jobs though! I will do my absolute best to fix problems for someone and my boss is "you're great with customers"

Looking after other people's children.

Ironing - I hate it with a passion. My mum made me do all the ironing as a teenager because I was very good at it.
I only agreed to marry dh if he promised to do all the ironing when we married

Sewing. I have a sewing machine, bought to do bits for myself, but I end up doing alterations for everybody and their dog and I bloody hate it.

Teaching. FWIW, I'm not a teacher, but if I had a pound for every time someone said "Have you ever considered teaching? You'd be really good at it.", I'd be able to treat myself to something properly nice :)

Also shooting.

I’ve done it 6/7 times always at corporate type events. I’m a very good shot but I hate it. Particularly shooting a hand gun as opposed to a rifle.

Being the person who can make conversation with anyone. I don't know whether I have a knack for working out what people like to talk about or if I'm more patient, but I'm basically the go-to buffer person for the tricky guest at weddings and parties.