use my talents

I should identify my talents.
I’m good at:
- critical thinking
- metacognition
- non-fictional writing
- thinking out of the box
- designing websites/presentations/magazines
- creative cooking
- writing poems in rhyme

So, I got into an undergraduate mechanical engineering program to go back to school starting in the fall. I’m not sure whether I will go there or not, but I’m going to go meet with an advisor and talk it out with them. I definitely want to intern while there, and I don’t want it to take more than 2 years for me to get the second bachelor’s degree. I’ll update you on this later, after I’ve met with them.

1) Math
2) Organization
3) Research
4) Dancing

An exercise to hopefully find out how to use my talents better.

to me it’s really easy to figure out what my talents are, but i can’t make anything out of them. i think it’s because i’m so planless and unsystematic that i find myself unable to break out of that circle. i’m good at drawing and designing stuff and very creative i guess but that paired with incredible laziness is a total impasse! oh well…i actually thought i was too laid-back to worry about the future or wasted time and talents, yet there’s something inside of me that makes me want to let it all out and make something out of it.

1) spelling – I use this all the time – just need to find a niche market
2) pulling pints – I started working in a pub tonight so does that count as using it?
3) Database Design – not only clever but logical too!

lots of them .. if only I used them and worked to my strenghths instead of spending my life being good at the things that don’t come naturally. I need more balence

I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up for a long time (err… I’m 44). Once I took a very long, involved test to help me figure out what I should be doing. The test was in two parts, each two hours long (timed). When it was all done, I diligently scored myself and anxiously awaited my answer, hoping to receive some enlightenment.

Essentially, the test told me “you’re pretty much good at everything, so do whatever you want to.”

Big Help.

I do NOT feel like I’m good at everything I do. Clearly, in fact, I’m not. So the test was crap in that sense anyway. But I am the classic “well-rounded” individual (whatever that is). Which means I don’t have a specialty. Which means that now, in “mid-career,” I’m trying to make another career change, and finding it difficult. Everybody wants a specialist. And I hate being pigeon-holed.

How to people receive inspiration? How do we see the forest of our own talents past the trees of our own neuroses?