I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.
Na i am good. I might be just a bartender, but I gave so much to become one of the best in my trade. Giving away that would mean giving away part of myself. I paid a high price to get where I am now and I am good damn proud of myself.
But if I had to I would want to git gud. Always wanted to be able to beat Dark Souls with ease.
Useful doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy it. I have the math skills but no musical skills. I wish I could sit on my patio and strum a guitar.
I’d keep music skills, OP. The world has enough calculators.
The calculators do music now though, and no one cares :(
Trading my “people always want to tell me what went wrong in their life”-superpower for excellent executive function. Pretty please.
So many folks here just mentioning things that with time and effort they could just straight-up learn.
Music isn’t magic, Art isn’t something you’re born with
Respectfully disagree with you.
I’ve been taking music lessons for years, to find that I don’t have the ear nor the rhythm for it.
Ten years of dance classes, I love the feeling of floating over the floor with an English Waltz. But ask me to stop counting in my head, or improvise rather than trained patterns, and I fall apart, just rocking in place.
Painting too. Aquarels, not acrylic. I don’t have the imagination nor, again, the fine motor skills.
The Arts are not for me.
I am a man of electronics, mechanics, computing, soldering, Lego, woodworking, sailing, geometry, 3d modeling. And I can teach and plan and organise.
It’s all practical, tangible stuff. That is who I am.
Sounds like you’ve just not found the right way to learn that works for you, tbh
Eh you can’t ignore the effect talent has on skill development. Their brain can literally be wired in a way that something like rhythm can be difficult to master whereas someone else can pick it up easily. Some of these things you’re just born with and can never change.
The same applies to high level math and art
It’s at most a headstart
It’s more of a multiplier. Regardless of practice someone without talent will never catch a talented and dedicated person.
Huh, I guess that explains all those bands of musicians where none of them had any talent and then went on to have zero success, such as AC/DC, Slayer and Metallica
Mainstream musical success is not a metric of musical skill. However if you look at any violin soloist, they have to be talented.
Also I’d also argue many of those band members do have talent.
Try taking some theory lessons, it helps with things immensely by giving a stronger foundation
I feel you. When trying to paint I want to make an exact copy of reality because I can’t imagine what is the essential thing to make something recognizable as it. I can’t imagine it well enough in my head.
Have you read Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain? Could help you think about art differently.
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I’d trade the ability to pick up my underwear with my foot and toss it into the laundry hamper for invisibility.
I’d trade my dick sucking skills for skill at playing guitar.
Have you tried taking up the (skin) flute?
The fact I played flute in 4th-6th grade makes me wonder if those skills just translated… 🤔
Based on what I know about flute embouchure, probably only if the receiving dick is quite small.
Now I’m gonna try to blow across someone’s meatus to see if I can make it whistle next time I go down.
Ironically enough, sounding would probably help
slide whistle sounds
Just make sure it’s rising pitch, not falling pitch
I feel like there’s got to be people out there that want the opposite trade.
“Being good at guitar doesn’t help me at all. Everyone hearing me play wants to suck my dick and not the other way around! 😩”
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall…
Like, is it really that great for boosting romantic success? I mostly just hear the roasting.
(If you want to make money at it or get famous, I can assure you skill isn’t a big part of the equation. I’ve been close enough to the industry to definitively say a lot gets fixed in post)
I’d trade 90’s computer skills for 90’s social skills. Because 90’s social skills are relevant today, while it’s been a while since I’ve had to resolve IRQ conflicts via jumpers. And switches no longer have a
Chasey Laindaisy chain port thanks to multiplexing.You’ve had a Lotta dick
Had a Lotta dick
I’ve had a Lotta time
I have a tangent related to 90’s social skills: I wish I had attended university before the high-speed internet era. We collectively replaced so much face-to-face interaction with stupid Flash games and scrolling ebaumsworld.
I’m with you.
I’ll trade my skill with DOS6.2 for the ability to fix my own car brakes. That’d be enough.
I would trade all my skill and knowledge in history and geography for just being able to program in rust
I would gladly change my math ability, that is small, for some musical ability, that is non existent.
Music isn’t magic, it’s not an innate talent, but rather a skill.
And like every skill, with time and practice and research, anyone could learn it.
Just not everyone’s got the time.
Id trade the skill of knowing how many carbs are in any dish with the skill to naturally release insulin to process the carbs of any dish. Or am i trading a skill for a perk?
Feel you bro, feel you
I would trade my accumulated engineering training and skills in order to be a great musician. I’m done with office work, staring at a screen all day, and coming home mentally exhausted. I want to be able to go to a jam session and shred with the best.
That hits the nail on the head.
Accurate
Have you considered the possible financial implications of this? Playing music is great, but poverty isn’t.
If you have a job like that, you have the money to get basically any gear and lessons you want!
I’m at a point in life where money isn’t the issue. The bottlenecks are always time and energy. Someday I’ll have time to focus on music (and skiing, and backpacking, and drawing, and …).
I’m a software engineer and picked up the ukulele because on of my kid was gifted one. When I feel tired or burnt I sit down and play a few songs and it actually gives me energy. I did play a bit of guitar in school so that helped me get going I guess.
I now have three ukuleles and a mini bass.
I’d save some money and do that now. You never know when you’re going to get a disease or cancer , or just get old.
At least thats how I look at it. Cancer is a 50% chance, so may as well plan on that taming me out!
I need better emotional regulation. I wish I could just go “Yeah this is going to completely suck” and then get it done.
Is doom scrolling a tradeable skill?
