I applied to a bunch of jobs today, and it reminded me that I have a whole bundle of skills that, while I’m very good at them, will never help me land a job:
- Losing every pen that has ever come in contact with me
- Inexplicably roughing up even the toughest objects
- Ability to remember tons of information about magazine/website contributor lineups
- Ability to remember a bunch of information about the hosts of podcasts
- emacs
- Remembering reviews written about games I never ended up playing
- Tracing back to an academic source I forgot to record by remembering the exact search terms I used to find it
- Near-mastery of the game Snowboard Kids 2
- Ability to fall asleep almost anywhere, at almost any time
- Iguana wrangling
Alas! At least I can assume everyone else has some equally useless skills. I hope.
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