CHAT What's your area of expertise?

Sacajawea

Sacajawea

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Curious about what people's knowledge & skills are and in what subject matter area where they have enough experience to be "consulted" by others for advice.

I've been a "jill of all trades" - a generalist - for so long, I don't know that I can rightly claim "expertise" in any particular area anymore. I do get a lot of "consults" on sewing advice, appying what I know in all those far-flung areas to making my home more resilient and able to go "off-grid" with a minimum of disruption.

(No, I don't know much at all about solar energy. Wouldn't really have much ROI here, as gray as the skies have been for 6 months. I opted for other solutions.)
 
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zeker

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in my younger yrs, I was a chemical engineer

these daze:strs:

alcohol research consumes most of my time
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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IT for 40 years. Application development in multiple languages, including C#, VB.NET, VBA and others. Expert in database design. Decades doing business analysis (meeting with stakeholders and defining programming specs).

For a hobby, I am adept at homebrewing beer. I don’t drink it much, but I love to make it.
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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I kinda gotta go with Zeker on this one....alcohol

Knuckledraggin' ain't really a "field".
 
Sacajawea

Sacajawea

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Zeker, meet Dennis. Dennis... LOL. I've done a bit of database design too. They can be as elegant as a Michealangelo drawing, or a gawdawful mess. LOL. The good ones are a thing of beauty to me. That's wacky, to a lot of people I suppose.
 
Sacajawea

Sacajawea

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Millwright - perhaps there are guys who need the benefit of your experience to learn how to become a gen-u-ine knuckledragger these days.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Don’t listen to him Sacajawea. He can write code in ladder logic for PLCs. HE’S LYING! IT’S AN ACT!!,
 
Millwright

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Sacajawea said:
Millwright - perhaps there are guys who need the benefit of your experience to learn how to become a gen-u-ine knuckledragger these days.
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My helper last summer is REALLY a sharp kid (21), he had a chance to go get his A&P ticket (airplane mechanic) and I beat him up to go...he left for school yesterday.

The funny part, his mom (remarried to a Abolubeh! Demons out! preacher) thinks I'm and absolute f***ing caveman.

In a year of riding with me, he absorbed a lot culture and my positive outlook. :lkick:



He has been red-pilled to extremes.
 
Sacajawea

Sacajawea

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Don't be shy folks. If we're going to come out on the other side of "doom-apocalypse" it's a good idea to know who's good at what, so we know who's brains to pick. ;)
 
Txkstew

Txkstew

Veteran Member
Instrument and Electrical Design and Drafting for Petrochemical plants, Pulp and Paper, and Shipyard construction of Offshore Oil Rigs and Ship Modification. 35 years experience, now simi retired looking to go back at it for a few more years. Before that, Structural Steel fitter for 4 years. In between jobs, I've been self employed in the Wholesale greenhouse growing of ornamental plants like hanging baskets. Other experience in home remodeling and building, which is what I really wanted to do to begin with.
 
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dvo

Veteran Member
Not very long ago...utility operations and utility regulation. Very specialized, limited market. Now just having fun and trying to stay reasonably healthy. And...I love every minute no longer spent in rush hour traffic.
 
Reasonable Rascal

Reasonable Rascal

Veteran Member
40+ years in the medical field; dual licenses and working back in my original field (EMS) and will be starting back in a hospital (Acute Care and ER) in the next couple weeks or less once the background check is completed. Areas I have worked for at least 2 years each include Long Term Care, ER, Acute Care, Residential Psych and Telemetry, with some ICU and Surgical floor in there as well, but short of 2 years in either area. Other areas of training or practice include back country/wilderness medicine (not a lot of opportunity to practice that though), haz-mat Operations level, rescue operations (heights, depths, auto, water,farm, back country), peds.

I also write medical books in cooperation with a group of authors who often have larger credentials than I do. See sig line for examples.

Used to fly back in the day - light aircraft like Cessnas and the Piper 140. Well experienced traveler - 7 countries outside the US across 2 continents. 15 or more years as a Scouter plus my time as a youth. Limited language skills, and Spanish is only my 3rd most skilled foreign language (not that I am fluent in anything other than English). I do better with written versus spoken words.

Beyond that? The Official Secrets Act won't let me tell you. :lkick:

RR
 
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AlfaMan

AlfaMan

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Hmmm, what's my skillset.

1. Research-Love to do research on topics. World affairs, military and history especially.
2. Nuclear issues and weaponry-Probably has to do with a 12th grade term paper being snagged by the Dept. of Energy......
3.Airplanes and space hardware-my first word was airplane, got my license about the same time I got my drivers' license (lost it at 42 due to diabetes). Wife never goes to air museums with me anymore-because I won't shut up :)
4. Cars-I love cars. Hold a few ASE's but can't work on cars anymore due to rheumatoid arthritis. I do inspect cars daily though as my day job.I'm one of 490 full line (all manufacturers selling in the US) inspectors in the US. I know cars.
 
Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

Heathen Pagan Witch
Fiber preparation, spinning, weaving, knitting, and animal husbandry. Dairy processing ie butter, cheese, yogurt making. I also do Colonial reenacting, so I'm pretty adept at black powder flintlock shooting (we hunt elk, deer, and bear that way), fire making, open fire cooking, and various other forms of off grid down in the dirt living. Also massage therapy, and other medical skills
 
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Donald Shimoda

In Absentia
Former stunt double for the porn industry.

Howdy, Folks!

These days, just keeping Missus Shimoda happy.

If need be - I could assist in repopulating the Earth after TEOTWAWKI; I'd be able to make a sizeable contribution over the matter of several weeks, and all the recipients will leave with smiles on their faces as they schedule repeat sessions...

:D

Peace and Love,

Donald Shimoda
 
Sacajawea

Sacajawea

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Oh... I forgot one of old specialties (haven't practiced in a long while)... printmaking - etching, litho & 4-color processes.
 
JF&P

JF&P

Deceased
Retired, Former Pilot, Lay Pastor, Revenue Agent, Accounting Manager and Christian Psychologist with a lot of personal experience dealing with and ministering to Satanic Ritual Abuse Victims via Spiritual Warfare.

Edit to add....Oh and I was a violinist for 15 years back in the day.
 
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Mr. Peabody

Mr. Peabody

Veteran Member
28 yrs FEMA, more specifically, MERS. Communications Tech/Spec, RF and IT. If it could be shoved in our trucks, I worked on it.
 
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Profit of Doom

Dismember
Donald Shimoda said:
Howdy, Folks!

These days, just keeping Missus Shimoda happy.

If need be - I could assist in repopulating the Earth after TEOTWAWKI; I'd be able to make a sizeable contribution over the matter of several weeks, and all the recipients will leave with smiles on their faces as they schedule repeat sessions...

:D

Peace and Love,

Donald Shimoda
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Oh really!
Let’s just whip ‘em out on the table and measure ‘em!
 
Inthewoods

Inthewoods

Adapting to the new paradigm
Multi instrumentalist/songwriter , lots of time spent inthewoods, trained chef(long long time ago)
Some herbal medicine lore, pretty ok at fixing stuff, all kinds of stuff.
 
Rayku

Rayku

Sanity is not statistical
I am generally circumspect regarding claims of expertise. It's been my experience that every time I started thinking of myself that way, something or someone will come along to knock that down.
I'll simply claim better than average understanding of physics, metallurgy, welding, wave mechanics, mechanical and other related engineering, NDE/NDT/NDI etc.

Knowledge and skills are some of those things that must be kept sharp or it loses its edge.
 
dstraito

dstraito

TB Fanatic
I am also a jack of many trades. Through necessity I did my own plumbing and electrical work for several old houses I bought and lived in.

I usually had to do most of my own automotive work especially with the cars 1970 and before. I bought two '68 mustangs, one with a good body and the other with a good engine and transmission and I combined them. Rebuilt several motors.

I had a 35 plus career in IT doing most of the programming languages but specializing in databases for the last decade or so. I also was an instructor, professional services, and systems engineer.

My dad taught me some lapidary skills.

I did welding and blacksmithing.


I've run marathons. I've biked 150 miles in two days.

I've written four novels.

I've used up about eight of my nine allocated life's.

I've been on a bowling league and actually drilled bowling balls for a sporting goods store.

I've been on softball leagues, the coed ones were more fun.

I've climbed the Pyramids and Sphinx and hunted for beads in the Sahara.

I've flown RC planes.

I rode my Valkyrie all over the United States including Sturgis, Big Bend, the Dragon in NC, Coloroado and many more.

I am not bragging about these things, I just wanted to relate that I've live a long and full life and am grateful for the many blessings I have had. And you asked :spns:

Unfortunately, I am very limited health wise in what I can do now but I was glad to have had the opportunities to do what I have done. I would gladly share anything I know if it would help anyone but I have probably forgotten most of it.
 
ibetiny

ibetiny

Veteran Member
Drugs and Destiny on my PS4. (I too will help repopulate the world after tshtf, my kids are cute.) If you want computer knowledge or how to fix your car, I'm NOT your man. If you want to Vanc dose a syphilitic diabetic dwarf with heart problems and renal failure..........I'm your dude.
 
Bardou

Bardou

Veteran Member
Cruises, ins and outs of what's a good deal. I just booked #40 to the Panama Canal. We haven't been through the new locks yet so looking forward to seeing what's been accomplished. I'm a good cook too.
 
#1 oldskool

#1 oldskool

"You finally really did it. You maniacs!
27 years of Firefighting and EMS. Photographer....from printing in a B/W darkroom, to now digital! Weddings were my forte' Once an avid outdoors man and motorcyclist, but spine problems have put the kibosh on those activities! Written two fiction books. Father to 3....grand dad to two (so far) Trying to make it day to day.
 
hiwall

hiwall

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Went through life with a low regard for my own well-being and have countless scars and mended bones to prove it.
 
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