Coding, photography, public speaking/advocacy, writing...
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wish I had one I could share.
Do you have one you can't share?
Nope. I am like the ultimate almost been. I have many things I do a bit better than avaerage but not really good enough to be like wow, or at least relative to my peers, and most of what I do is just a combination of finding out how to do something and doing it combined with willingness to do it. Im sorta a suck doer.
You sound like me. Haha.
I bake bread, make some basic wood boxes, into Paracord braiding.
I used to like engineering, after what I deal with so many years it has become a job for me.
Cooking
Tech I'd guess, nothing really specific. Maybe contributing to documentation or translation of some projects that interest me but no coding at all.
Haircutting. Bread baking & other types of cooking.
Honestly at this point the only thing I will do for money is accounting or helping implement systems or build logic into a system. I am specialist in work and generalist in life.
Genealogy. I've done a couple of research projects for friends just because I find it interesting and challenging even if it's not my family.
Art. I'm not judgy against people doing it, but I always see all these people with advanced modification tools and using them to make their art "better", like photoshop contrast tools and color stuff, when to me, if my art is good it's good. I got eighth place in an art contest once, yet I know (without really complaining about it though) that I would've gotten second place if people hadn't put steroids into their sunsets.
What irks me a little is those same artists who use the metaphorical steroids are in the campaign against AI art, and I'm like dude, there are people from whom it would be more fitting to hear complaints from. Say what you want about AI art, I'm not going to severely invalidate the arguments from either side themselves, but considering the actual critics involved, it's at least 90% hypocrisy from the "anti" side, and you'll have seen me having said this since day one.
flow arts
Yβknow, I dunno. I have a tendency to want to use what limited skills I have professionally. Iβve been working with tech for so long that I suppose the only real place I see to actively use what Iβve learned is in a professional setting, as I donβt really have need to use said skills in my personal life. At least, not to the same extent.
Knowing how to partition a hard drive is only so useful. Being able to hand-solder tiny diodes and resistors doesnβt come up much in my day-to-day life.
Sex, writing, being a good listener for people's emotional problems.
Is't that just being a basic educated human being ?
I don't mean I'm better at them than everyone else, it's just that two of them are things people do sometimes nag me to do professionally, as per OP's question.
I find saying "so what, I'm good at sex too, doesn't mean I have to be a sex worker" gets my point across and stops the nagging, because that's something many people only enjoy as a hobby.
I've been told that I've gotten pretty good at wildlife photography, and I do it because I enjoy the experience.