[Closed] are you doing a job you're a naturally gifted at?

I expect like many, I like what my job is supposed to be, but in reality feel stifled by bureaucracy and management processes.

Naturally gifted at it, it pays well, I get great feedback and I always get my bonuses.

Wish it involved being active and outside though.

Actually, sod it, I want to be shouting at fat people...

Yeti - are you a fluffer?

Depressingly enough, yes, I am naturally gifted at doing boring spreadsheets. 😐

Only for the love of it Binners. Doesn't pay enought to keep me in Louboutins.

Yeah I reckon I'm pretty well suited to my job (I'm a photographer, and I run music workshops/gigs/festivals mostly with young people). I even sometimes get payed to play music. 😀

I don't earn a fortune but I don't have to work all that much either.

yeah, i'm a nerd, i have an ability to remmeber dull and useless piece of information with ease 🙁

Yes I am naturally gifted at what I do, it's still shit though.

no

Yeah, sweet FA

Yeah, but I just quit. Since the job market is so bouyant at the moment I thought I'd have a little poke around and see if there was something more interesting that I have no experience of doing.

Feels pretty good weirdly...

some aspects of it yes, others not so.

Yes, meeting overseas customers who are accustomed to being cheated and robbed and convincing them my company isn't going to do the same.

(Ironically, if we did cheat them most would never know.)

Don't know about gifted, but I like what I do & I think I do it well.

(Winemaker)

i can talk the legs off a donkey........which helps in my job a a counter sales person.

Some aspects, yes. Some aspects, not so much.

I'm one of those that takes pride in my work though. Therefore I like to know what the competition are doing and what other tools/apps/models/philosophies/skills/etc are available so I can utilise them in some way.

Yes and yes.

In fact, I often forget that I even get paid for my labours of love and it always comes as a surprise when my bank balance grows at the end of each month.

Oh, hang on a minute 🙂

Let's see:

Pedant? Yes
Like words? Yes
Averagely clever? Yes
Risk taker? No
Pain in the a-se? Yes

Ideally suited to being a lawyer....

Yes.

i've seen your floors deadly, you'd think you'd have the sense to put the kitchen cabinets in first!

I absolutely adore my job and have done so for the past 13 years! Got an honors degree first and then decided to ignore that bit and do something i was interested in - havn't looked back!
Working with animals every day...bliss!

We are soooo lucky aren't we 😀

🙂

Not exactly, but I don't mind it, and I don't find it particularly difficult.. challenging, but not difficult.

Like being outdoors in all weather - check
Like driving - check
Like listening to music - check
Fat lardy git - check

I'm an lgv driver who mooches up and down our lovely quiet motorways during the night so you lovely people can get your groceries every day

If the job involves doing fa other than living on bike-related websites and planning the next ride then yes I'm gifted

I love colouring stuff in, me! And now I'm older, I remember to put the tops back on my felt tips, and everyfink

No, but just get on with it ...

pretty much, yes. not sure about talented, but s/w developer / tester seems to suit me quite well. from school really, have felt "this is for me".

to the point where these moments where you think of jacking it all in, I usually come to the conclusion I'd be crazy to do that..

I'm not sure - what is it I do again?

I'm not sure - what is it I do again?

Hope so! Followed a dream (led by a unicorn up the spiral rainbow*) about ten years ago and trained to be a photographer. Still doing it, still paying the mortgage and still loving it 🙂 Half price family portraits this month with a free A4 print! Roll up, roll up!

*might have dreamed the bit about the unicorn and rainbows.

Are they a pretty family?

yes, very much so.

I make this look easy!
Wait, what's that? you mean it IS easy?

oops....

Yes thanks I am.

Well I spend a lot of time on here GrahamS, so I assume I work in IT right?

Actually it is true 😳

All I need to do is draw pretty pictures and then help others try and draw as prettier. Occasionally a story board is thrown in.

I expect like many, I like what my job is supposed to be, but in reality feel stifled by bureaucracy and management processes.

+1
A lot also goes out to contract that we could still do 🙁

I suspect I might actually be better suited to exams and learning than I am to real work.

Id feel depressed about the amount of people her posting that they are exactly suited to their jobs, but I suspect many are just saying it to convince others and many to convince themselves.

How many people do you met who moan about other people being rubbish at work probably a good 70%.

It cant possibly work if the figure is above 50%.

Yeah I guess so. I'm doing audio and video stills/replays for live racing broadcast to betting shops/telly and it's pretty easy and I enjoy it. I've always been into this sort of thing and pick it up really easily. Some people talk of stress and pressure in a live environment but I've never felt that.

Also I get to watch loads of tv in any down time whilst getting paid for it, which I'm good at.

No, but I'm ploughing on anyway

Yes - I'm a web developer, love my job, and enjoy learning new stuff pretty much daily. I've hated almost every other job I've had.

Kinda, but that doesn't mean I like it. 😐

Can't get up in the morning, shit diet of crap food, drink to much, Opinonated.

I'm a student, so yeah!!

😆

I would have to say yes. Not in the best situation at the minute - nearly resigned last week - but I can turn it on whenever I want, my problem is motivation.

yes, looking after the kids. Get to play Lego, read books, make interesting stuff, ride bikes, play in the park, go hiking.

Yes I am - it's just all the idiots I have to work with who keep farking it up for me!

My job in hospitality should be very "hands on" but I am decidely "hands off" so I quite like being the boss, currently its going well but that hasn't always been the case 😕

Yes - I liked to think so. However,I feel there also needs to be a certain ammount of hard work etc. Or I would be out of business

Yes - The vast majority of the time

yes.
although some people think i have no talent whatsoever but i just ignore them and keep doing what i do (and get paid for it)

Yes - I’m a bully and inveterate liar.

I’m a bully and inveterate liar.

Constable Savage ?

hahahahahahahahaha good lord no, no-one can be naturally gifted at what I do. The best you can get is experienced enough not to get very badly hurt or sued by clients if it goes tits up.

Kinda. I've got a pretty poor head for numbers and no people skills at all, both big downsides really considering I work in a finance office. But I've got the ability to put together scattered bits of barely-connected info, and also to make good judgement calls based on what most folks think is insufficient info, which ends up being more important.

(no shortage of people who can do finance stuff but most of them aren't well equipped to deal with the total chaos of the organisation I work for)

I'm a lorry driver.
is it even possible to be naturally gifted at murdering prostitutes?

I'm a miserable misanthrope with violent tendencies. So I'm particularly well suited to being a bike mechanic.

I've been a porn* for 20 years. No complaints yet.

I am still not quite sure what it is i actually do...

Seem to generally 'do my job' although there are several key things i am monumentally crap at that i get support with from those with more experience, which helps a lot. I seem to be good at making decisions when others can't/don't want to.

Got to be said i do love my job even 5 years into it. Have the odd wobbly day but 99% of the time i think i am extremely lucky to have a job, be ok at it and able to employ others.

Reckon so...

I wash pots in a pub for 10 hours a week, which doesn't need much natural talent, other than prioritising what I need to do. gives me £50 a week for bike bits though, so I can't complain.

im a clock maker (since leaving the army) im employed as a welder but i go out on site and take clocks apart and fix them.

i am a naturally gifted welder/sheet metal worker and i really love my job.

I have my talents. Which suit me for the job on my job description. But not the job I'm [i]actually[/i] doing...

On the other hand I had an interview for a job this morning which could possibly be the most suitable job for me on this earth...

Some aspects of my job very much so others not at all - so I have gone back to a shop floor post to do more of the stuff I am good at and as little of the stuff I am crap at

I'm AWESOME, 'nuff said.

yes.. full time stay at home Dad and part time artist..

now if I could just incorporate roaming the earth with an endless flagon of rough and a dog on a string whilst raucously poking mind bendingly inebriated fun at the sheeple I'd be just grand..

I have maths degree and work in IT - go figure 😯

No, It bores me most of the time, but its doable. The thing I like least is the thing I don't like about employment. I'm not paid to do a task I'm paid to be somewhere and be bussy. I want to be asked to do x for y amount of money by z time.

No, not at all. Destroys my confidence on a daily basis.

One day, one day I look forward to leaving it all behind.

Worked for a company that grew from me and the boss to 20+ employees, got bought out and grew some more.

As the company grew, so did I - ended up in senior management and with reflection I got the position on merit, but after a period of time in that position I became increasingly crap at it. I don't doubt I wasn't capable, there was nothing overly hard about it, I just didn't apply myself very well - perhaps due to boredom, lack of focus/interest and a certain level of stress.

Said company no longer exists, I work for myself and am back on the tools, consitently getting good feedback, building a good reputation and commanding a decent wage. I suppose I must be ok at it based on that and seeing some of the other muppets kicking around in the industry it's not hard to shine. I'm not superhuman, but can turn out 200% productivity of a good percentage of numbskulls I work alongside.

It will be a cold day in hell when I ever return to management.

I'd say of my last "real" job that I was bloody good at it and maybe there were elements of my personality which helped that - one might say I had an aptitude for it, but I don't think that's the same as "naturally gifted". It still required a lot of hard work.

I [i]would[/i] say I'm naturally gifted to be a layabout retiree though 🙂

but can turn out 200% productivity of a good percentage of numbskulls I work alongside.

No, not at all. Destroys my confidence on a daily basis.

One day, one day I look forward to leaving it all behind.

Never give up Jimmy! NEVER!

up until a month ago then yes (engineer) now in management and no - struggling. but the pays better so milking it till;

A. I get better at it
B. I get fired.