My degree 💀

Is that a skill? Or a fine piece of paper?

Rescue someone from a height.

Had to learn it because I was working for a wireless teleco. Hope to never use it. But I don't work for a telco anymore so the chance is insanely low.

Ooof that’s a tough question. It’s technically an engineering degree, so I was under the assumption that I would actually use it in my day to day. I just unwittingly stumbled back ass-ward into a completely unrelated technical field, so yeah. At least that fine piece of paper did its job and got me the connections I needed to be employed.

MPN-13 radar maintenance. I am not even sure if they are still around.

CPR

Origami.

I got certified in swift water rescue about 20 years ago. Happily, I’ve never used it.

That's a very specific, interesting and unlikely to be used skill. Nice work.

Macromedia Flash

Resolving IRQ conflicts via jumpers.

I whistle really well and have four different variations but its not a useful skill that will get me a job

I can juggle a soccer ball indefinitely (with pretty much anything that's not a hand).

What are the four variations?

It is a skill I am glad that I never have to use it.

being nice when i could be right

I can whistle while smiling, whistle while breathing in, classic pursed lips, and I can trill with a little bit a spit. The smiling one always gets a laugh, I'm pretty sure its technically nose whistling but mechanically I'm forcing air through my tough at my teeth which reverberate at a high pitched sound

I took a bunch of sword and fencing classes back in the day. I suspect/hope that won't come up often as I don't even own a sword.

remember when chess got really popular and all the kids were doing chess...

anyday now it'll be sword and fencing turn to be the fashion. it'll be both epic and tragic. and your skills will be appreciated.

same

both, the job prospects are so low in many stem fields its pretty much difficult to apply to a job , which are pretty much gatekeeped.

which engineering degree is it? is it like theoretical research(experiments, writing science papers,,,etc), i can see that being a very hard to get a job from.

Haven’t used any of my wrestling skills or knowledge in almost 20 years. Almost certain I never will again.

Juggling oddly-shaped fruit.

Entertaining children

Damn, you too, huh.

Chemical Engineering —-> RF signal processing

Which is why I was sooooo grateful that my professors helped get me my first internship outside of academia. Most of my job moves afterwards have been through connections I made at working so it was critical for my career to get started.

filmmaking. I have thousands of dollars in (now ageing) gear that rarely gets used anymore because I lack the social network of contacts in my new small town to make a project happen.

For reasons beyond my comprehension, I’m good with children and they, for some reason, are drawn to me and show me levels of respect and interest in what I have to say that they don’t offer to others.

I can’t stand children and avoid them like the plague.

your PI, PROFESSORS went out of thier way to help you, thats probably what Universities should having resources devoted to or my other suggestion was warnign students about certain fields. attribute my state school is how they treat HS students, just push them through the system and hope they dont ask too much questions, what they are after was FRESHman to get thier butts in the seat, because they know thats the cash cow for full tuition money.

i did RF signaling in undergrad or was IF in ochem

Not a skill, but I still have pi memorised to 25 decimal places . Memorised at i think age 15, and at age 26, I lost a trivia question to it...

Formatting spreadsheets. Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, I can use em all. I stack boxes for a living.

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Voice to text, one take, one breath. I die a little inside every time I hear someone say A as in apple, or S as in Sandy

Firefighter training

Apache pig

Yep.
I work at sea and have some basic firefighting and first aid.
Hope I never have to use either.