# What's your expertise? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024 "2010-07-08T22:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/21 "2010-07-09T02:15:03Z")
Adult training and instructional design Software: Microsoft Office suite, Captivate, Articulate Northern gardening Road racing event planning and execution, flag marshaling, race control Understanding the demands of my overlord felines ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/22 "2010-07-09T02:59:41Z")
Calming small children and angry customers. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/23 "2010-07-09T03:10:36Z")
Pretty much everything mechanical or computational. In the last week I’ve created a radius authenticated enterprise wifi solution, fixed a residential HVAC, replaced the laser and drive motor in a Wii, I’ll be doing a brake job on the Vette this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/24 "2010-07-09T04:08:42Z")
Medical laboratory science, more specifically hospital labs and blood banking. I have a decent knowledge of human physiology as well but I can’t hold a candle to the many brilliant medical professionals on the board. As far as having the insider’s view on a topic, I can get in on discussions of cats, depression and CBT, being Canadian, and meeting someone from another country on the internet, moving here and marrying him and fighting with immigration paperwork all the way. That’s about it for “expertise” but I’m often surprised about how much I find I know about random things. I seem to have a trivia sponge for a brain. Also, my Google-fu is strong. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/25 "2010-07-09T04:40:23Z")
Software product management. Specifically with internet and SaaS applications. Specialty is with security of billing and finance related products, Fraud mgmt and identity security. I’m also pretty good at billiards and the patrick obrian historical fiction series (read all 21 books 8 times) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/26 "2010-07-09T05:28:01Z")
I’m not truly an expert in anything, but I reckon I know more than the average bear about: Japanese language and culture, Christian theology and history, and loooove. OK, that last one is not true…yet. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/27 "2010-07-09T05:40:47Z")
Depending entirely upon your definition of “expert”: Trivia Firearms knowledge Radio and Television Master Control (a large part of my job in the Air Force) Restaurant Management (after 15 years I better be good at it) One thing that I am unquestionably an expert at is making cheesesteaks. That’s not exactly what I hoped to be able to say at this point in my life, but there it is. It’s right up there with being Captain of the Titanic for auspiciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/28 "2010-07-09T05:43:01Z")
I have powers beyond the ken of mortal man. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/29 "2010-07-09T05:44:57Z")
Graphic Design (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, many others . . . and their analog precursors). Photography. Painting with little sticks. Musical Theatre and “The Great American Songbook.” Pop culture of the 50s and 60s. Gay urban sex in the 70s and 80s. Objectivism (though I’m mercifully forgetting a lot). Sarcastic humor. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/30 "2010-07-09T06:11:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I have powers beyond the ken of mortal man. True, as I hear one night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/31 "2010-07-09T09:33:48Z")
I have a 9th degree black belt in wise-ass-ery. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/32 "2010-07-09T09:53:04Z")
Botany, some biology/ wild critters, and psychology. All things Dutch. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/33 "2010-07-09T10:06:49Z")
I’m a generalist pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/34 "2010-07-09T10:21:57Z")
Simultaneous interpretation of medical device presentations, between English and Japanese simultaneous and consecutive interpretation karaoke machine operation, optimization of small children, entertainment of spending waaaaaaaaaay too much $$ on shoes, justification of ---
**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/35 "2010-07-09T11:08:13Z")
[ul] [li]Computer Science[/li][li]SCUBA Diving[/li][li]Cooking[/li][li]Sailing[/li][li]History[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/36 "2010-07-09T11:11:25Z")
Drinking beer. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/37 "2010-07-09T11:13:18Z")
Climate change policy. Facilitating drum circles. I like to think of myself a the resident expert on the Grateful Dead, but there are others here. Jam bands in general, and I could probably get certified in Funk. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/38 "2010-07-09T11:31:44Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I’m a generalist pain in the ass. And one of my favorite posters, my dear. Me? Saudi Arabia I suppose, certainly the expatriate community. Military affairs. The English language ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/39 "2010-07-09T12:27:59Z")
Photographing wading birds from a kayak (and processing those images in Photoshop), editing technical documents (which I hope to never have to do again), not getting lost in places I have never been, napping. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-expertise/546024/40 "2010-07-09T12:37:22Z")
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