Hey Pandas, What’s One Skill You Didn’t Expect To Learn Through Your Job? (Closed)

I work in education, currently after-school care, and have learned more cooking skills. I wouldn't say I'm just a basic cook, but I do usually need to follow a recipe. In my new job I've had to get used to using the ingredients supplied to cook meals, I'm not familiar with, with minimal recipes. I think I have been relatively successful at this.

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It sounds kind of dumb, but being able to go longer hours without smoking. My boss was pretty strict with smoke and bathroom breaks. I had been used to being able to hit my vape about every 5 minutes all day everyday since I started smoking. The longest I had gone was an hour for class. Working there, I learned how to be okay without doing that. At first, it was tough and my brain was constantly begging for nicotine, but after a while, I didn’t even realize it was time for my smoke break already.

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Brittany

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Chainsaws. And other small engine equipment. I (43F) know more about chainsaws, bars and chains than a lot of loggers do.

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Dog Mom

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How to smile at people when your frustrated and to stay calm ☮️

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Flexiegirl94

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#4 Translation.

In continuation of the story about the unexpected from the life of the artist, the text is below. Maybe I'll make a big post with a photo. Write if applicable about this more meeting.
Once my sister and I participated in an exhibition on the other side of the country, there was, we traveled for a long time in the winter with the biggest adventures (it was actually a long journey with a train wreck, a stop in snowy fields ... 6 hours on a train, which is just stood in the snow desert) ...
We still got to the exhibition, hung pictures, visited the city a little, everything was very new for us.
advise that this city is located at the foot of the Carpathians, we advised the organizers to arrange a plein air for us in the mountains. Everything was new, interesting and colorful. A fairly large company gathered with artistic equipment and we moved to the mountains in large cars. We arrived at a beautiful camp site with very comfortable wooden houses - chalets.
We were very naive, since we came from the warm part of the country and did not expect to get into severe cold in the mountains, snowdrifts and snow reached almost to the waist if it was not cleared. The owners of the chalet cheered up our painting process by applying hot wine with cardamom and cinnamon...somehow we found an approach from painting in the cold and in the snow...we even froze with oil paints. The owners did not really understand why we packed everything so quickly and ran into the house to the fireplace, we were shaking from the cold, we definitely didn’t want to draw.
The hosts, accustomed to the weather, decided that we weren't invited enough adventures to attract teenage children, there were many, perhaps more than 10 people. They motivated the children by the fact that artists came to the mountains, go and start something with them. Try we are confused, but ....
The most interesting thing is always: I took disposable glasses and cookies, the children got treats and tea, we poured some strong coffee into the glasses and we drew with the children with this coffee on plain paper for printing .... then we dried these sheets together near the fireplace ... You should have seen the faces of those who would have looked like their expression, there was surprise, confusion and much more.

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