re: Skills you are good at vs not good at

Can fix or build/make just about anything including machining (my trade), welding and carpentry, decent with electricity, etc. I'm legitimately very well rounded skill wise and currently halfway complete on my masters degree in industrial engineering.

I cannot paint for shite. Car, house, fence, anything. I suck at it and it drives me insane.

Good at - anything mechanical or electrical. I'm a damn good general purpose industrial badass.

Bad at - Whistling. Can't do it for shite. Drives me insane. I've been trying to teach myself any time I'm driving, which is a damn lot, for a long time now.

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I cannot sharpen knives

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This I can do. Friends and family ask me to do this when I visit.

I get them like razors.


Pretty good with rifle and pistol but not so great with a shotgun.

Lights out with a shotgun

Don’t miss with my 30-30 lever

Couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from 10 feet away with my pistol

Pretty good at doing stuff with my hands.
I enjoy building stuff and learning the process of doing that.

When I’m planning projects I have it in my head what I want and am able to build it front that. My wife want to see what I’m thinking and I’m not good at being drawing out my plans.

Not great at electrical stuff. I can replace outlets, switches, lights fixtures, and such but not other stuff.

I realized yesterday I need to pack reading glasses in my tackle box.

ME: sometime tool toting mechanic here
I was welding before my teens
and was greasing track'ho at 15
the same summer I operated backhoes and made dynamite crew

When hunting and fishing I usually come back home better than most

With both green thumb and trim carpentry skills.

IRL I was a card system era programmer than got paid to teach & correct multi-degreed, PHDs, and many lettered engineers about this ever evolving thing called a computer. It was room size and quickly morphed into a little box called a PC, and then the DoD led to the gopher net . . Much the same way one summer before college stretched into two decades..... And so no degree.

The one thing for sure that they told me never to do. (the fortune 500 people - big place) was to never ever write anything ever again. Did it once and immediately told to stop. Believe it hurt a lot of smart educated people to find out they were getting schooled by an illerate dummy.

Good at electrical and instrumentation- my job
Average at mechanical
Not a bad carpenter
Average, maybe above shot with a rifle
I think I’m good at following a blood trail-and absolutely enjoy it

Not good at finding fish or finding/reading good deer sign
Completely suck at drawing
Not good with a shotgun or pistol
Not a great boat pilot

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I never could whistle worth a shite

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I can make your ears bleed. Seriously, whenever I hit the first whistle at a sporting event, people around me turn around with the quickness. By the end of the game, there's always someone with their fingers in their ears when I do it.

I had a girlfriend in college that could whistle and I was envious. Practiced for a couple of weeks and learned. I have to use both my pinkies to do it, never been able to do it well with one hand.


I suck at anything that needs finesse or touch. I can't caulk for crap. Decent at mechanical work, but I'm dropping the bolt, nut or tool multiple times.

Carpentry, I measure twice and still screw it up.

What a fun post full of honesty and humility!

Good at: Figuring out just about anything to an above average level. I don't think I am expert at anything. But computers, woodworking, sports are all things I can do, but know that any given person will be better at anyone of those than I am. I can whistle loudly, but eff it up often, folding cloths, cleaning.
I do a decent amount of woodworking and people think I am very good at it, but down deep inside, I know I do not have the hand skills to ever make something truly special.

Average: guns, unclogging a drain, sharpening, welding, boats, mechanical, electrical, general carpentry (separate from woodworking)

Bad at: I cannot play an instrument, also cannot grow shite. I don't think I'm a particularly good driver, brutal at foreign languages, I cannot hide frustration in the slightest, I don't fish or hunt so there is no reason to think I'm good at those. Cannot finish sheetrock, cannot negotiate at all, cooking, can't draw.