I can do anything but fix the crack of dawn or mend a broken heart.
I cut big boards into little boards and then glue them back together.
I can make something out of nothing.....just ask my wife.
Some skills in Engineering
Some skills with Computers
Some skills with home repair, though I excel with roofing, ok with tiling, not so great with woodwork.
Gardening, Landscaping. I made a device that roots plants fairly well and I have moved more plants than I can count.
Cooking.
Learning, but only in certain topics.
I used to have a Flight Instructor certificate.
I did a lot of engineering things when working at a small private firm but I have no desire to go back.
I can manage 80 people.
But I am retired from that. Lucky to live through it.
Everyone needs a hobby at some point, and if you don't have one lined up as you grow older, growing older will be a real mess.
My hobby has been fixing and restoring classic cameras. I am always looking for a new hobby. I'm looking into making whiskey now (legally).
> My hobby has been fixing and restoring classic cameras. I am always looking for a new hobby. I'm looking into making whiskey now (legally).
I'm good at asking questions. Watch this -
Carl, have you worked on Contax IIIa cameras before? This was my dads and then he gave it to me in the 1970s. The light meter doesn't work anymore (selenium cell up and died, or so they tell me). I contacted (Contaxed?) a guy back in 2003 about repairing it, but I didn't have the funds available for the entire overhaul a camera shelved for 30+ years probably needed. If you do work for hire, please shoot me an email.
I'd tell you but I'd sound like I was bragging.
I can ride and rope, hammer and paint, does things with my hands that most men can't....
I started full time farming back in July, so if this job goes bust,,,, I'm back to surveying. If for some reason I could't get a job surveying, I would look for something related to machine control "surveyor" supervisor.
> I'd tell you but I'd sound like I was bragging.
Along the lines of this Perry?
Harry Jackson - "Some Cowboy Brag Talk"
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Yes, I have worked on some Zeiss stuff 😀
I don't do any repair work for others- that would make it a job!
Try this guy for anything your IIIa needs, including light meter service:
http://www.zeisscamera.com/services_contaxIIa.shtml
It's a fine camera worth servicing. In it's day it was one of the most expensive 35mm rangefinders.
Good luck!
I've had to think about this one for a while. Surveying kind of came to me.
I've been a software engineer for over 30 years. That would be first fall back - which I've done.
Second might be a carpenter which I've done off and on since I was an early teen. I would never consider myself a master carpenter or wood-worker by any stretch. But, I do enjoy it. I mostly got picked to do all the cut-man work. Guess my accuracy and attention was better than the others I worked with at the time. They also threw all the electrical work at me.
I have roofed 7 or 8 houses and that ain't fun either.
Painting? Yeah, I can do that to. I don't like it but apparently I'm good at it.
I've also laid lots of brick and block. That ain't too much fun neither.
Logging was kind of fun about 7 years ago. Super dangerous of course. Driving the skidder around was cool. Thank God I'm not much affected by the all the poison plants - ivy, oak, sumac, et. al.
Farm work was pretty fun. Driving all those big toys was a blast. Nothing like a man in the field on his tractor. The combine/harvester was the best. What a beast!!! It would be something like taxiing a 747 around in the field.
There are other things I've done and could do again but I am drawing a blank at the moment.
hah! I install rear ends in Lazyboy recliners.
Thanks for the link. Henry appears to be MR. Contax. I'll get in touch with him.
Sheet-rocking, plumbing, electrical, moving, roofing, .....drinking, dirt-biking, boating....hockey....????
Decent at most everything, expert at nothing, I guess.
Two years as a carpenter sub. Working knowledge of plumbing and wiring.
Freight clerk at a steel mill.
Temp laborer for CNW railroad. Foreman offered me a permanent job.
Lab assistant on a medical-research project, transplanting pancreases into diabetic dogs to test anti-rejection drugs. Scrubbed in on surgery.
Fairly good shade-tree mechanic; the older the vehicle the better.
Play mandolin and taught the instrument part-time for a year or so. Also play mandola and mandocello and a little guitar. Member of a couple of short-lived acoustic bands. Note: Getting brake fluid on a Martin guitar after doing car repairs does not improve the finish.
Chemistry-lab technician at an ammunition plant; then switched to greasing machines on the factory floor.
Neighborhood activist/troublemaker for decades.
Non-profit housing developer.
I think if this poll were given to people in fields other than surveying, there would be a lot fewer unrelated skills and interests. In surveying you have to be ready to improvise, so non-surveying skills can really come in handy.
I have degrees in business and psychology, along with management. I can do a lot of things with my hands. Can weld, cut, etc.
I'd be able to eat. 🙂
Wow you guys have a lot of skills for sure, it was fun to read all these posts I read them twice...
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Nobody mentioned nunchuck skills or bowhunting skills, its obvious why Angel married Wendell ...duh great computer hacking skills!!
But the OP said "what other marketable skills", and I doubt there is much market for that, because of all the do-it-yourselfers.
