I'm an expertI spent four years of my life acquiring a PhD. This makes me an expert in the use of transparency in computer interfaces. It's not a hugely useful or interesting expertise, but it's all mine. I'm pretty hot at sitting on the sofa, too.
What are you lot experts in?
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chthonic, Thu 23 Jun 2005, 14:43)
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I am an expert...in the acquisition of weed. Sincerely, this is a fantastic skill to have, and has improved my employability in a major way.
Getting hold of weed is very difficult. You ring people who don't answer their phones. You visit people who aren't anywhere to be found. You deal with 'dealers' who don't have anything to sell. Closing a deal is an act of sheer bloodyminded will. And then you have to do it all again a week later when your lame-ass friends phone you up because they're out, and they won't admit you are the only one with the muscle and the skillz to get more.
The strange thing is that I very rarely smoke myself these days. I do the deals because it's entertaining, and reminds me of what it is to be a man: to have people depend on you, and to have the power to make a difference.
As I said, it's a surprisingly marketable skill, let down only by the fact that if you ever mentioned it at a job interview you'd be frogmarched out of the door if you're lucky and the window if you're not.
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