What are non-technical skills?

I'm good at certain things. What cool stuff can I do with these skills?

  • These skills come intuitively to me: organizing things (email, shelves, boxes, etc.), spatial perception (navigation, fitting things into other things, rough estimations of length, etc.), and paying attention to detail. What cool things can I do with some or all of these skills? I'm not particularly interested in careers or major life choices -- I'm more curious about ways to apply these skills in weird, interesting, and fun new ways, no matter how small. Ways in which these skills could be useful to other people are also welcome. (Don't worry, I also am interested in activities that will help me build different skills, but that is not within the scope of this question.) How many times I can say "skills"?

  • Answer:

    Be that awesome friend who helps friends pack/move and/or reorganize their closets.

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Shamehole Management which is what I sort of do "for fun" with friends who are in over their heads with big houses and too much stuff. I go over and help them take a roomful of stuff and turn it into junk, plastic boxes of stuff and things to use/sell/admire. It's super fun. There are also more formal professional organizers and also people who just help people do estate sales and/or clean out hoarder houses. Some of this depends not on your skills as much as your personality when using those skills. Also you could be an archivist or even someone in records management. Again, some of this is personality based, whether you'd like making use of your skills in this way.

jessamyn

You could study industrial design and industrial organization.

amtho

My friend has similar skills and in the past two years he's gotten really into woodworking. Specifically dovetail joinery, which is this whole thing. You also might find particular pleasure in origami. Do you know about http://kusudama.me/? The best helping-other-people thing about your skillset is tetrising things into other things. I bet you can pack a car trunk like nobody's business. Offer to go on ikea trips with your friends and help them fit the boxes in the back seat. You'll be as a golden god.

Mizu

Well, Project Management is one thing. Remodeling is another. Remodeling requires attention to detail, ability to coordinate a number of activities simultaneously, and to insure that things A, B and Q are done and finished in time to start W and Z. So maybe you'd want to do some building with Habitat for Humanity to see how it all pieces together.

Ruthless Bunny

I think you could be a part-time professional organizer. People will pay $50-100/hour for those services.

heathrowga

Some ideas: Model-building, woodworking, sewing, organizing tupperware, winning guess-my-weight games at the state fair, parking in tough spaces, backing up with a trailer...?

aka burlap

Oh also if you don't want to be a full-on professional organizer, you could probably pick up some odd job gigs just by asking around. The family I babysat for used to hire me to pack the kids for camp, organize the mom's office, help the Grandmother organize for a move, etc.

radioamy

Well the Howard Gardner Theory of Multiple Intelligences includes "Spatial" as one, and some specialties cited on the Web for those high in that intelligence are: interior decorator, architect, artist, sailor, costume design, landscaping, logo creation, photo composition, inventor.

forthright

Aviation. The skills you describe are all critical to aviation. Get your pilot's license!

Thistledown

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