What are your top five skills?

[Crankley]

I'm wanting to have a bit of a clear out. Before beginning I saw "Get Organised with the Home Edit" on Netflex and decided to watch it for inspiration.

Their first assignment was with Reece Witherspoon. She was very impressed and remarked on how amazing the font was on the signs. One of the organisers thanked her and said it was her handwriting which they had turned into a font. RW said 'you have great handwriting'. The organiser said 'I know, thank you, it's one of my top five skills'. I've decided since I didn't have 50 pairs of designer shoes or enough clothes to split into their various couture designers, I would give up watching and do it my way.

So I would be interested in knowing what you think are your top five skills?

I need to have a think if I have any.

1. I can do a headstand.

1. I can make a roux without lumps

1. I can talk to teenagers without them grumping off muttering things abt being busy.

1. I can fold my knickers perfectly and quickly.

1. My sarcasm knows no bounds.

Off to update my LinkedIn with these.

1. I can do the splits (both ways)
2. I can put away pop up tents
3. Play piano
4. Body clock, I always wake up at exactly 5:49am
5. I always make the right amount of rice

I'm pretty good at remembering song lyrics (but not titles or artists) and I am great at cracking jokes at inappropriate moments.

Also able to lose something within 10 seconds of putting it down.

Alonelonelylonersbadidea

No, please don't be sad. I bet you have amazing skills, it's just you are so used to doing them, that you no longer see them as skills.

1. I can pack my shopping as fast as even the fastest check out person in Aldi can scan my shopping
2. I can make a quick decision on big things like holidays, home decor, buying a car etc and will be happy that I made the correct choice
3. I can sew any garment provided I have a pattern
4. I can knit any garment provided I have a pattern
5. I can use my initiative and cunning to find a solution to most scenarios I might find myself in without losing my head

None of the above relate whatsoever to my profession role! I really am wasted in my job 😂

saturdayhelicopter

Oh yes transfer to Linkedin - you will be deluged with offers, especially No. 4.

1. I am emotionally intelligent, and can use this for good or evil.

1. I am excellent at making a large load of washing fit on all of the radiators and dry well. This is in a small house, 2 adults (where one of them seems to get changed 30000 times a day, yes DH, you) and 1 toddler

1. I am extremely organised when I want to be (mainly at work)

1. I am AMAZING at avoiding the people who try to get you to buy things randomly.

1. I am told I am a great liar, and regularly win games which require a good poker face, which again, can be used for good or evil

1 Read fast & remember. Can tell a story

2 Bake a cake, without weighing any of the ingredients first

3 I like to problem solve. I am a doer & will tenaciously stick with an issue until its resolved

4 I enjoy being observant & this translates into being creative

5 Strong willed, with a sense of humour

Hmm...
I'm a good teacher, and communicate well with young people.
I can remember faces forever. If I've seen you once I will always remember you if I spot you somewhere.
I have nice handwriting
I'm a consistent cook and baker
I can think of a 5th

1 - Writing/ editing/ proofreading.
2 - Baking/ icing fancy cakes.
3 - Producing edible dinners from what I have to hand.
4 - Finding tremendous bargains in footwear, handbags, home goods, and clothes at thrift shops.
5 - Interior design and visual arts.

*Writing
*Better than average at taking photos
*Good at choosing gifts and shopping generally
*Holiday research
*Being fun at parties

1.Endless patience.

1. I can make the entire world disappear when I'm reading any book.
2. I can work out how to make any appliance work without looking at the instructions.
3. I can make an entire share bar of chocolate or packet of biscuits disappear while reading aforementioned books.
4. I can pick things up with my toes.

1. Naturally organised and tidy, which means my house is too
2. Can make a roux sauce from scratch by eye (no measuring of ingredients)
3. Really quite good with babies and small children
4. Always calm and competent in a crisis, even if not of my making!
5. Long fuse on my temper

Great skills on here! I wish I could always find something decent on TV, blend into any social setting and work at lightning speed.

Mine are:

1. Excellent general knowledge of world cultures. Languages, customs, ancient civilisations, etc. - you want me on your pub quiz team for any trivia on this stuff.

1. I make the best pasta dishes (ok, best according to my tastes, but I can’t say that for any other food).

1. Can improvise cheesy old-school Hollywood film music in my head.

1. I’m always challenging my own views and looking for the strongest argument against them (including asking myself as I type this if I’m being truly honest in saying I do this all the time). Seems like this is relatively rare so I’m claiming it as a special skill!

1. Very good at planning holidays. Also skilled at going on them.

I am amazing at changing nappies, including massive shitty ones.

I can do most household tasks so fast anyone would think I was on speed.

I'm really good at packing without forgetting anything, but on the flip side I'm great at going shopping and forgetting half the things I went to get.

That's about it. I have no actual desirable or useful skills at all.

~ I can wiggle my ears

~ I am an amazing cake maker / decorator

~ I have beautiful handwriting

~ I'm shit hot at driving and parking

~ I can bullshit my way out of almost any situation.

1 I always get tea on the table
2 I can make new friends
3 My clients generally think I'm great
4 I'm good at business analytics & logic & stuff like that
5 I've got a good eye for a photo - my phone snapshot reel is fab

1. I make the best pancakes ever
2. I am brilliant at spotting typos and grammar mistakes
3. I can remember phone numbers
4. I can unerringly pick the most expensive item in a shop, by which I suppose I mean I am good at discerning quality
5. I forget most things instantly (why is that good, you ask? Because it means I don't hold grudges)

Whenever I make pancakes, even the first one comes out looking good

Efficient at chairing meetings

Good at spelling

Can pack everything into the car for going on holiday

Good memory for colours

Only number 3 is used regularly in my job!

I can Insert a cannula into a wriggly pug (if you know you know)
I can take blood from an angry cat
I'm brilliant at expressing anal glands
I can dissect a fruitfly
I can crochet

I can cope with most things on my own
I can grow enough salad/ veg/fruit for us, for half the year
I make good lemon drizzle cake
I can do long division in my head
I can write my boss' monthly blog in about 20 minutes

I’ve kept a house plant alive for 7 months and counting. Pretty proud of that. I’ll get back to you on the other 4

1. I make wonderful puff pastry
2. I’m a dancer - tap, ballroom, modern, latin-american
3. I’m good at languages
4. I’m good at planning trips & packing suitcases
5. I can take lovely photos, this skill was developed (!) when camera film rolls had only 12 photos so absolutely every shot had to be good!

What an interesting question:

1. I am very good at interviews- I got every job I interviewed for
2. I am very intuitive and know what people really mean
3. I am a good swimmer
4. I am a good cook (not baker)
5. I am a very good at storytelling (probably linked to my interviewing)

1. Emotionally intelligent/empathic (blessing and a curse)
2. Cannot lie (my voice falters if I try)
3. Speed reader
4. Great memory
5. Fantastic at anagrams/word searches