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I'd trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd trade my dick sucking skills for skill at playing guitar.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you tried taking up the (skin) flute?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact I played flute in 4th-6th grade makes me wonder if those skills just translated... 🤔

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Based on what I know about flute embouchure, probably only if the receiving dick is quite small.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I'm gonna try to blow across someone's meatus to see if I can make it whistle next time I go down.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ironically enough, sounding would probably help

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Just make sure it's rising pitch, not falling pitch

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like there's someone out there that wants the opposite trade.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Being good at guitar doesn't help me at all. Everyone hearing me play wants to suck my dick and not the other way around! 😩"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyway, here's Wonderwall...

Like, is it really that great for boosting romantic success? I mostly just hear the roasting.

(If you want to make money at it or get famous, I can assure you skill isn't a big part of the equation. I've been close enough to the industry to definitively say a lot gets fixed in post)

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'd trade 90's computer skills for 90's social skills. Because 90's social skills are relevant today, while it's been a while since I've had to resolve IRQ conflicts via jumpers. And switches no longer have a ~~Chasey Lain~~ daisy chain port.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

You've had a Lotta dick

Had a Lotta dick

I've had a Lotta time

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I have a tangent related to 90's social skills: I wish I had attended university before the high-speed internet era. We collectively replaced so much face-to-face interaction with stupid Flash games and scrolling ebaumsworld.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm with you.

I'll trade my skill with DOS6.2 for the ability to fix my own car brakes. That'd be enough.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I would trade my accumulated engineering training and skills in order to be a great musician. I'm done with office work, staring at a screen all day, and coming home mentally exhausted. I want to be able to go to a jam session and shred with the best.

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That hits the nail on the head.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Have you considered the possible financial implications of this? Playing music is great, but poverty isn't.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you have a job like that, you have the money to get basically any gear and lessons you want!

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm at a point in life where money isn't the issue. The bottlenecks are always time and energy. Someday I'll have time to focus on music (and skiing, and backpacking, and drawing, and ...).

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'd save some money and do that now. You never know when you're going to get a disease or cancer , or just get old.

At least thats how I look at it. Cancer is a 50% chance, so may as well plan on that taming me out!

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'd trade the ability to pick up my underwear with my foot and toss it into the laundry hamper for invisibility.

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

I need better emotional regulation. I wish I could just go "Yeah this is going to completely suck" and then get it done.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Is doom scrolling a tradeable skill?

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Id trade the skill of knowing how many carbs are in any dish with the skill to naturally release insulin to process the carbs of any dish. Or am i trading a skill for a perk?

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd trade my writing skills for coding skills. I feel like I'd be happier programming than teaching kids how to write.

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would gladly change my math ability, that is small, for some musical ability, that is non existent.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I would trade all my skill and knowledge in history and geography for just being able to program in rust

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Id probably trade my gaming skills for any sort of artistic skill. At least then I could be good at something that you can make an income from.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not negating you, but if you are under any notion that art can sustain a living, especially in the current slop world, I have bad news for you 😬

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sustain but at least provide something extra. The sort of thing where a couple of commissions might get you a pizza or some other treat that you couldn't justify otherwise.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would trade my video game ability for basically anything else in the world. Im no longer a world-champion contender level of skill, and without charisma its worthless.

I'd like to trade it in for carpentry or any handymannery.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So many music answers here, I didn't expect that.

Maybe my ability to "sing" by vibrating just my lips together, in exchange for absolutely anything useful. I don't know if anyone else can do that, so if we're going by a kind of bell curve way of measuring "talent", it could fix a lot for me.

I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair

Interesting, why? You'd think they both are things you either have to do yourself or pay someone for.

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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I have the jack-of-all-trades skill.

I can play guitar, piano, cello, oboe, drums and sing, write computer programs, poetry and short stories, read at a fairly fast pace (I've clocked myself at over 1800 pages a day, 4 full novels, without skipping sleep), I have decent eidetic memory, I've read multiple encyclopedia's from A to Z, I am apparently unable to get lost, I can do carpentry and electrical work, home repairs, automobile repairs, fix electronics, toys, gewgaws and gadgets, I know dozens of stupid human tricks like folding joints out of place and flipping eyelids, crossing eyes and flexing tongue.

I have literally never run into anything that I cannot do to some degree other than a pull-up or play the classical flute.

If I had to trade that skill for something else, I do not know how to properly value it. All I know is that everyone around me considers it basically worthless.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I'd trade in my excellent customer service skill for elite sniper skill. Can't let Luigi have all the fun.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

My skill at driving a car would be transformed into helicopter pilot. I hear they make good money and I can always get a motorcycle or take Uber.

[–] rawn@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Trading my "people always want to tell me what went wrong in their life"-superpower for excellent executive function. Pretty please.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So many folks here just mentioning things that with time and effort they could just straight-up learn.

Music isn't magic, Art isn't something you're born with

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Respectfully disagree with you.

I've been taking music lessons for years, to find that I don't have the ear nor the rhythm for it.

Ten years of dance classes, I love the feeling of floating over the floor with an English Waltz. But ask me to stop counting in my head, or improvise rather than trained patterns, and I fall apart, just rocking in place.

Painting too. Aquarels, not acrylic. I don't have the imagination nor, again, the fine motor skills.

The Arts are not for me.

I am a man of electronics, mechanics, computing, soldering, Lego, woodworking, sailing, geometry, 3d modeling. And I can teach and plan and organise.

It's all practical, tangible stuff. That is who I am.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Sounds like you've just not found the right way to learn that works for you, tbh

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[–] harrison_fnord@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Na i am good. I might be just a bartender, but I gave so much to become one of the best in my trade. Giving away that would mean giving away part of myself. I paid a high price to get where I am now and I am good damn proud of myself.

But if I had to I would want to git gud. Always wanted to be able to beat Dark Souls with ease.

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