Attitude adjustment/Skills inventory

[featherynscale]

As I mentioned, yesterday was a metric goatload of fun. But, as sometimes occurs, there was a dark spot in the day, when adammaker said something like, "I almost never say, 'Wow, I don't want to learn how to do that'". And then, there was a chorus of assent from my other two-thirds, and I had to look at everybody and say, "Well, I do. I say that all the time." There are a lot of things I don't want to learn how to do, or at least don't want to learn how to do in that exact moment.

I think this is because I am fundamentally lazy. And, because of that, I find that I can't do nearly so many nifty things as most of my friends can, to say nothing of the lovely people who are my partners. And that's sort of depressing, and I generally wander around feeling inferior to people. So bleh.

So I was thinking I'd do two things here. One is to find some new things that I do want to learn how to do, and start learning how to do them. The other is to list out the skills I already have, so I can have some actual data to bitch and moan about, instead of just anecdotally bitching and moaning. There will eventually be a link to that list in this entry (I'm going to post it publicly, but backdated, so that if you're interested, you can see, but so that my neuroses will not clog up your friendslist if you aren't interested).

EDIT: It's here, if you care.

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Whenever I took the Strong-Campbell Interest Survey in high school or college, I always scored with one or two things in the "high interest" category and one or two in the "medium interest" category. Everything else was in the "Don't Give a Shit" category. I've always been okay with that.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I never took that. It sounds sort of useful, though.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

It was actually. My number one interest, career-wise, was consistently "English teacher." Had I paid attention during my senior year of high school, I could be approaching retirement about now.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Neat. Maybe I could find out how to take it now, since, you know, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I too that in high school (or something like it). I put scuba diving down as something I would like to do and a Boy Scout Venture group called me out of the blue and invited me to join their club. We got to take scuba diving class and become cerified scuba divers.

This is where I started my rescue training as dive recovery and rescue was the whole reason I join the Pope County Search and Rescue team and met and married cerrunos. I do not think I would have met him if any of this had happened differently. Nor would I be in my current line of work as this is where my path led. Interesting how it all links together.