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House hold chores. I can cook a variety of food, know how to clean different types of clothing, and so on. Nothing to brag about, but you'd be surprised how many men can't cook for gak.

Gardening, but I would classify that as a hobby. It's rewarding to grow your own vegetables and cook them.

Excel and MiniTab. I've been able to find a lot of cost savings and inefficiencies over the years that have kept my 50 year old plant competitive with the 10 year old plants. Job security and attaboys, abound. Plus, bonuses baby!

First Aid has been the biggest one, especially this past Friday. Went and visited my old university for the weekend, and Friday night most of the greek organizations (of which I'm a part of one) had a "secret" relay race called the Rossi Relay. Where you have two 1 gallon jugs or one 2 gallon jug of Carlo Rossi Wine and a team of 4 people. You race to locations around campus and drink a good measure of the wine at each location (roughly 1 quarter of your supply). You travel to 4 locations drink your wine and take a picture of the team and send it to the team captains via text and move on to the next location (preferably running).

My little brother was taking part in this, and came back to our fraternity house where I was doing some work (I was on call and working on a Client's system), he sits down next to me on this couch, and tries to have a conversation while hammered. I tell him to drag himself up to his room and go to sleep. He leans over and rests his head on my shoulder and I ask, "If you're going to puke, please puke in the other direction, I would like it if you didn't get puke on my work laptop." He sits there for a minute and I ask him if he's going to puke. He goes to stand up, drops to his knees, pukes a little, and then stands up, loses his balance and beefs it right into this solid wood box/coffee table, pulls himself up on to the table and sits there for a moment before falling off and on to the floor. I jumped up, pointed to one guy, get a trash can, divied up the work like they tell you in "emergency situations". I get him into a recovery position in case he pukes again. The vomit was all wine anyways, so I shouldn't have needed to sweep out his mouth, but I didn't want him choking on crappy wine and bile. Had one of the guys bring his car around in case we had to get him to the ER for alcohol poisoning. One of the other alumni that was visiting that weekend is a Nurse/EMT, so he gave the quick once over, said that it didn't look like immediate danger, and we hoisted him up and into a room to sleep it off... Checked his pulse, as one of younger guys noticed that my little brother had passed out with his shoes on, and before we can stop him, he's passing out sharpies. So I said if anyone is drawing penises on his face, it'll be me, and collected the sharpies. The nurse still had his and said, "we'll at least let him know he was being taken care of." So he wrote the time and his beats per minute on his face and we monitored him till about 4 in the morning...

Thankfully I was finally able to put those first aid skills I got in the boy scouts to work


Also my cooking skills, I'm not fantastic chef, but I can make tasty foods, and rarely do I burn it...

I taught myself to play bass guitar and program synths. Managed to get into Uni on the strength of that.
4 Years of fun and I got to meet the wife

How to use PowerPoint really, really well.

Might as well throw Visio work flow diagrams in as well.

Every time I've had to do any sort of automotive repairs. It's a very good skill to have for sure.

PredaKhaine wrote:
I taught myself to play bass guitar and program synths. Managed to get into Uni on the strength of that.
4 Years of fun and I got to meet the wife

Yup, same here. I didn't get to meet your wife, mind.

Be a good lover.

 Albatross wrote:

PredaKhaine wrote:
I taught myself to play bass guitar and program synths. Managed to get into Uni on the strength of that.
4 Years of fun and I got to meet the wife

Yup, same here. I didn't get to meet your wife, mind.

Shame. She makes a mean lasagne

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
That's what the American Heart Association told me last time I got certified for work. I was highly confused cause it's all ways been breaths and thrusts. Now you just hammer the person's chest till they die, come out of it or someone competent takes. over apparently I feel like ditching breaths kinda misses part of the point doesn't it?

I think that's the version taught to first aiders, not proper paramedics, it means you're more likely to try becuase you don't have to put your mouth up to them when they may have a smashed up face, been sick, not brushed their teeth etc.

 FM Ninja 048 wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
That's what the American Heart Association told me last time I got certified for work. I was highly confused cause it's all ways been breaths and thrusts. Now you just hammer the person's chest till they die, come out of it or someone competent takes. over apparently I feel like ditching breaths kinda misses part of the point doesn't it?

I think that's the version taught to first aiders, not proper paramedics, it means you're more likely to try because you don't have to put your mouth up to them when they may have a smashed up face, been sick, not brushed their teeth etc.

Are you a proper paramedic? I'm just asking to get some reference, cause everyone I've talked to says it's been changed to just chest compressions, since at least spring of 2010 (when I was last certified). But a quick google search does suggest that the reasoning is two-fold. 1) More people are more willing to do it, and 2) when you stop chest compressions for rescue breaths, it stops all that blood flow that you worked so hard (and cracked some ribs) to get.

Is doing as little as possible at your job a skill?

 Soladrin wrote:
Is doing as little as possible at your job a skill?

The skill is in still looking busy

 kronk wrote:
MiniTab.

Minitab! Arrrggghhhh!

Perhaps I can PM you if I run into some issues. I'm working on some I-charts for Control purposes at the moment, and I can't quite remember what I am doing.

Of course, I'm just a lowly Green Belt and you are a Black Belt if I recall. Perhaps I will call you Sensei Kronk?