What skill did you learn that was not worth the effort? (sopuli.xyz)

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There's often a skill that seem interesting, but I can't see doing anything for me in my day-to-day life. What have you learned that was a lot more effort than the payoff was worth?

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[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Why?

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

How much cursive you using these days? It's pretty much useless outside of reading old letters.

[-] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Taking notes in interviews (job related). Allows me to scribble something down while maintaining eye contact and seeing the persons face. Does it well because i dont need to wonder how much space is in between characters like i do when hand printing.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

Every single day!

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I have excellent handwriting and it has been a valuable asset at almost every job I’ve ever had. So many times people have come to me and asked me to hand write a note to a client.

Also, love letters. Physical love letters written in cursive go fucking hard in the 2020’s.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Cursive is the only way I can write now. College destroyed my normal hand writing.

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Every day, it is how I write. It is not useless if you want to write with a minimal degree of fluency.

Don't you write at all?

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Extremely rarely. And when I do I don't use cursive.

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