What's your area of expertise? (i.e., friends/families turn to YOU when needed?)

[CitySkyline]

OK, I had a hard time figuring out what to write as the thread's title :D

What I mean is, what is it that within your circle of friends/family, you're considered "the expert" and they'll say, "Just ask [insert your name here], he/she'll know!"

For me, I have a few...

- being in the computer field, if people need computer help, they'll contact me (I really should start charging by the hour... :D )

- also, photography: "what camera should I buy?" (sound familiar, cyn? ;) )

- New York City: big fan, so people often turn to me, especially if it's a NYC history question

- skyscrapers: again, a fan of tall buildings, so people often turn to me.

- airplanes: ditto :)

- obviously, baseball and/or Mets, although frankly, I don't get asked about this too much...

My definite top two are computers and photography: those are the ones where I get the most questions/requests for info.

What about the rest of you?

[metmagic]

Great question!


this is what i often get....

"hello cyn? umm.... i wanna kill my boyfriend/husband/boss and i can't stop crying. what are the planets doing? is it a full moon?" :crying2: (anything astrology)

"omigod i desperately need a reading! do you have your tarot cards??" :( (these are my bosses wanting my advice LOL! i guess i'm pretty knowledgeable with psychic/occult stuff)

"i have this bizarre headache/tension that appears right after i do a 5 mile sprint uphill but NOT when i do a slow 10 mile run and ONLY after i eat eggs--or so it seems.... not sure, but do you have any idea what it could be?" (i am the unofficial doctor/healer/detective in my circle of family & friends...if for no other reason than i seem to be able to figure out the source of the pain) oh, i was premed in college for a couple years and have a fascination with the human body and healing...so i guess i know a little about that too

relationships and sex (people call me about this stuff usually)

my family, esp sister (but not the know-it-all brother) call me with any sports-related questions, esp. if they're involved in a bet or game (i once helped my sister win her $400 office pool :hmm: oh sure and i came in LAST place in the contest i was in! pooh!)

i'm really good with dogs. all my friends with dogs call me with any dog-behavioural problems/questions... i feel like i really understand them and can figure out why they misbehave... if they're shy/antisocial/afraid of people, i can get them out of it....

clearing out clutter/spaceclearing/getting the house&apt to feel lighter....everyone calls me for this

putting together an outfit for a special occasion, esp. a first date/hot date :D everyone calls me for this too...this is fun!

homework! oddly enough, people call me when they need help with homework... just the other day my 15 yr old cousin called me up "what's the root word for intrinsic? what is a prefix and a suffix? can you give me an example?" (i love helping with english homework!)

people call me when they need someone to talk to usually. i'm a good listener and i feel like i've experienced everything so i understand alot and can relate.... though lately i've had to learn to not be so nice cuz then people take too much of my energy and i'm drained :nut:

all my friends/acquaintances who practice or start practicing yoga call me with questions :)

[Rockin Robin]

Of course there's baseball.

I have about 15 years experience in mortgages and consumer lending, so I'm everyone's financial adviser.

I've had so many medical conditions/ailments/aches and pains that I'm a bit of an expert in that. My sister, who's five years older than me, actually calls me at midnight or 2 am or 6 am if she's got a weird pain. :hmm:

Old movie or old music trivia or Broadway shows.

Also, friends have always called me as a sounding board if there's a decision they have to make.

Oh yeah, and directions. I'm a walking roadmap. A bunch of years ago, two friends of mine were driving down to Georgia to see some guys they knew. At 3 am they got off the interstate in North Caroline to get gas, and couldn't find the highway again. So when you're lost, you call Robin. Yes, at 3 am while lost in North Carolina, they called me. And I told them how to go.

I think that's it, but that's enough!

[metmagic]

Oh yeah, and directions. I'm a walking roadmap. A bunch of years ago, two friends of mine were driving down to Georgia to see some guys they knew. At 3 am they got off the interstate in North Caroline to get gas, and couldn't find the highway again. So when you're lost, you call Robin. Yes, at 3 am while lost in North Carolina, they called me. And I told them how to go.



hear that James? we shoulda had her in the car...... :D

james would love you :)

[Rockin Robin]

Hey, I'm available for road trips and parties. :D

[metmagic]

i think james and shawn would both love you. :) it wasn't my fault you got lost for 10 hours in brooklyn shawn!!

[Sheafaithful]

For the most part, the Mets, esp. in college where everybody knew I was a Mets fan.

[Chisox73]

With me,it's sports,usually baseball.People always come to me abut baseball questions,and I'll always try to answer them.

Also like City here,I'm a big fan of tall buildings,especially those in Chicago.

For some reason when I head for Chicago,I'll get 1 or 2 tourists stop me and ask what building is this,where this street is,or where is the John Hancock Center is.Most of the time there about a block away.I'll tell them you can't miss it.(It's 100 stories high).

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

The Tigers. The first game Nick and I went to, he went to work that next day and told everyone at his shop that I knew more about the Tigers than Alan Trammell does :D

problems / relationships. I guess my couselling background is the cause for this. I can't figure out my own problems / relationships, but I can spot someone elses a mile away :D

[WestsideHimself]

I don't have big explainations for my areas, ain't that talkative of a person but they are as fallows:

-Small Block Chevy motors (currently build them on the side for some people)
-Classic Cars-Years, makes, Ya I know them all.
-Paintball...Slowly becoming somewhat of a Canadian Ambassador for the sport
-Football...Huge Fan
-Roman Related things, I love history
-Women, I dunno they guys always come to me for advice, not that I know a lot but they do, lol so I fake knowing more then I do about them, I am only male.

[Obri]

Firstly, baseball. I can't count how many people I know who've had a sleepless night, and have ended up watching a ballgame, and the next day, or when ever I see them, they're like, "So, what happened here?", or "What does RBI stand for?", or "What are the three numbers in the players stats?". So despite being anything but a baseball expert in reality, I am a total guru in these parts.:D

Secondly(wow, talk about blowing your own horn ;) ), probably History. I get people asking me stuff about the World Wars, and mostly 19th and 20th century history. I just like reading about all that stuff.

This thread reminded me actually, I have some paranormal stuff to discuss with Cyn that I meant to bring up in New York.:D I'll shoot you a PM sometime.

[Baseball Guru]

and sex (people call me about this stuff usually)



Hmmm, how come I call you for sex you never call back:eyebrow



:D

[I Are Baboon]

The only thing I can really think of is career advice/resumes/interviewing tips. Since I am the first person in my family ever to earn a college degree, they think I know everything about Corporate America. I am pretty good with that stuff though.

My wife is a CPA and gets hammered with tax questions all the time.

[Baseball Guru]

In this post you won't find the meaning of life, you will not find the answer to why you are here, and you will not find the solution to any of your problems. You will neither find an existentialistic analysis nor a perfect explanation for everything.


Socrates said: "The only thing I know is that I know nothing". I say: "Maybe I know something, maybe I know nothing."


This is how I describe my viewpoint on life. There are many possibilities: Maybe I'm sure that I know something. Maybe I'm sure that I know nothing. Maybe I'm not sure of anything at all. Maybe I am, but I just don't know it. Maybe nothing we do really matters, because it might all just be an illusion. Maybe this and maybe that. And so on... But, of course, if I followed this example in everything I said and did, I wouldn't be able to live, because everything would be irrelevant.


Does that make sense?:D

[Panzram]

Mainly fantasy baseball. So many people seem to value my opinion for some odd reason. ;)

[rockin500]

sports, directions (i seem to even be able to give them in st. louis :hmm: ) and personal problems. I'm the human sounding board. :)

[Dark_Angel]

What I mean is, what is it that within your circle of friends/family, you're considered "the expert" and they'll say, "Just ask [insert your name here], he/she'll know!"
1. Sports - In my family, nobody else really knows as much about sports as I do.

2. The Internet - Not the computer, but the Internet. :cool:

3. Traveling - I plan all of the vacations and trips we go on.

4. New York - My sister says I know more about NYC than most of the people who live there. :D

5. Pop culture - Stuff about music, movies, etc.

I guess I'm pretty knowledgeable about stuff. ;)

[Liter22]

People seem to think I know more than I really do lol.
For some reason my friend always asks me help with him playing guitar, but I play bass...

Baseball stats, normally for bad pitcher and bad position players.

Very rarley I'm asked about history.

Uh sarcastic joke I'm good for.

Drawing my signature birdy

[PopTop]

"hello cyn? umm.... i wanna kill my boyfriend/husband/boss and i can't stop crying. what are the planets doing? is it a full moon?" :crying2: (anything astrology)

people call me when they need someone to talk to usually. i'm a good listener...

:laff: Excellent stuff, Magic. You are a good listener, at least you've never hung up on me!



A few of my sisters and sisters-in-law have something they call "Uncle Willie's Weekend School for Wayward Warriors" ... Almost each of my umpteen nieces and nephews have done time in the program over the years. Making bad grades on report cards will earn a child direct and automatic admission. Tough curriculum, very tough and that's no bull. One of my nephews did a weekend in the program for making an F on his progress report in social studies. It wasn't because he failed a bunch of tests, more for not turning in his homework. But it came at a time when I was teaching Texas History to 7th-graders, so the poor kid knew he was in for a really tough go. And I really am strict and very prepared, plus coldly administrative with the instructions. It is a very no-nonsense weekend filled with studies, though I always will take the kids out to eat somewhere they like (conversation during meal is related to studies) and I do allow some TV (educational channels, no sports or MTV or anything like that), plus as immodest as this may sound, I really am a very good teacher one-on-one with just about any kid that wants to learn. I generally get the child at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and I return the child Monday morning in time for school. They need bring nothing other than clothes/toothbrush, no game thingys allowed. I've yet to have the same nephew or niece twice, so my confidence is high that I can conservatively rate Uncle Willie's Weekend School for Wayward Warriors a general success. :)

Another one of my sisters spends a lot of times at bars playing some trivia game. She calls me once a week to ask me some baseball question, then yells at me because by the time the call connects and I tell her the answer, time's up on the game :hmm:

[Liter22]

Another one of my sisters spends a lot of times at bars playing some trivia game. She calls me once a week to ask me some baseball question, then yells at me because by the time the call connects and I tell her the answer, time's up on the game

Just for that, one day just say Rollie Fingers.

[metmagic]

In this post you won't find the meaning of life, you will not find the answer to why you are here, and you will not find the solution to any of your problems. You will neither find an existentialistic analysis nor a perfect explanation for everything.


Socrates said: "The only thing I know is that I know nothing". I say: "Maybe I know something, maybe I know nothing."


This is how I describe my viewpoint on life. There are many possibilities: Maybe I'm sure that I know something. Maybe I'm sure that I know nothing. Maybe I'm not sure of anything at all. Maybe I am, but I just don't know it. Maybe nothing we do really matters, because it might all just be an illusion. Maybe this and maybe that. And so on... But, of course, if I followed this example in everything I said and did, I wouldn't be able to live, because everything would be irrelevant.


Does that make sense?:D

james, have you been thinking? :D i could call you...we could talk for 7 hours then you'd get insomnia for a week and blame me again..... :tongue:

:luvkiss:

[metmagic]

A few of my sisters and sisters-in-law have something they call "Uncle Willie's Weekend School for Wayward Warriors" ... Almost each of my umpteen nieces and nephews have done time in the program over the years. Making bad grades on report cards will earn a child direct and automatic admission. Tough curriculum, very tough and that's no bull. One of my nephews did a weekend in the program for making an F on his progress report in social studies. It wasn't because he failed a bunch of tests, more for not turning in his homework. But it came at a time when I was teaching Texas History to 7th-graders, so the poor kid knew he was in for a really tough go. And I really am strict and very prepared, plus coldly administrative with the instructions. It is a very no-nonsense weekend filled with studies, though I always will take the kids out to eat somewhere they like (conversation during meal is related to studies) and I do allow some TV (educational channels, no sports or MTV or anything like that), plus as immodest as this may sound, I really am a very good teacher one-on-one with just about any kid that wants to learn. I generally get the child at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and I return the child Monday morning in time for school. They need bring nothing other than clothes/toothbrush, no game thingys allowed. I've yet to have the same nephew or niece twice, so my confidence is high that I can conservatively rate Uncle Willie's Weekend School for Wayward Warriors a general success. :)



willie, that sounds awesome :thumbsup: when your umpteen nieces & nephews graduate harvard with high honors, they can thank YOU for your tough love! :D your program sounds great!!

[PopTop]

I only wish I could take one iota of credit for how well these kids have turned out. The oldest ones deserve all the credit for what they've done so far.

And now I have these new nephews and nieces, not sure what they are, maybe half-step nephews and nieces. My half-sister and her step-kids. I've got no clue what they're known as technically. But my gracious! That little Sarah is a piece of work, all the red, curly hair and very direct. She's about to be five, they live in Alaska now. First time I met her she was almost four at my other half-sister's wedding last fall. And I start talking to her and ask what her name is. She says Sarah, and I say, "That's a pretty name." She comes right back with, "Why thank you. What's your name?" I tell her Willie B and she says, "Oh." :laff: My oldest sister was there and cracked up laughing along with me. It was just this real adult expression on this little doll's face that made it funny.

[Baseball Guru]

james, have you been thinking? :D i could call you...we could talk for 7 hours then you'd get insomnia for a week and blame me again..... :tongue:

:luvkiss:



:D


:love2:



I did call you back around 10:20... Did you get my message??

[metmagic]

yes. i had the ringer off cuz i was concentrating :hmm: wasn't enough though...oh well .....but it was GREAT talking to you last night my buddy i miss you :love::( i wish we could hang out and play catch! that was too much fun w/ you and billy :D miss you guys :crying2:

[Baseball Guru]

When you coming back down? ;)

You know you guys always have a place to stay:)

[metmagic]

i know :love:

[Sheafaithful]

Hmmm, I finally thought of some more:

If you need help in Scrabble or JUmble, I'm your girl. Some of my family members will hand me the jumble and I'm able to get the last word or I can find the one of the highest scoring words in Scrabble.

Teaching related questions, I have my bad days and I make mistakes, but I found some success along the way. I can share good ideas.

I am also a good listener, if you just want to vent then I'm your gal, not great on the advice, but I can listen.

[metsfan001]

Baseball, I guess.
Sometimes, homework, especially math. Usually, it's one or two people in particular. ;)

[metsfan001]

Another one of my sisters spends a lot of times at bars playing some trivia game. She calls me once a week to ask me some baseball question, then yells at me because by the time the call connects and I tell her the answer, time's up on the game :hmm:
Grrr. . . there's no NTN game near my house. I wish there was, but unfortunately, no. :(

[rockin500]

i was asked by roomies to edit english papers and math (usually just algebra or trig. i needed my own help sometimes with calc. lol )

[metmagic]

i had trouble with calc too :(

sin... cosine... tangent... :nut:

[rockin500]

SohCahToa Thats how i always remembered sines/cosines. that stuff was easy, but once i got into 2nd semester calc.... :sigh:

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

we learned that stuff in grade 10

[metmagic]

i think he's talking about advanced.... i had honors calc in highschool and then again in college, although college calc was a blur :nut: i musta blocked it out.....

crap i spelled "sine" wrong :hmm

[metsfan001]

i had trouble with calc too :(

sin... cosine... tangent... :nut:
Yes, I guess trig is a sin. :evillol :evillol






Sorry, couldn't resist.

[metmagic]

:clap: LOL

[rockin500]

we learned that stuff in grade 10
basic trig is easy. expanding trigometric series on the other hand. or partial derivatives of trigometric functions. now thats the yucky stuff.

[metmagic]

ok Mr. Engineer.

:D



(i knew that that was what you were talking about.... 2 of my best guy friends in college were engineer majors... THEIR calculus was nothing like our kindergarten calculus lol :D)

[metsfan001]

Ooh. . . mathematical logic, anyone (that is, logic from a mathematical standpoint)? That's our current topic. :D

[Baseball Guru]

:sleep:

[yagsy]

Hmmm, thought about this for a bit, I guess:

Padres/Mets
baseball in general, especially historical stuff dating back to late '60s
computers - both hardware and software
shopping
figure skating - both how to do and historical stuff
Nutrition
Quick healing of injuries and injury prevention
Stretching of specific muscle areas
History, especially political history (won't discuss politics though on msg boards :nope:)
Political theory & Political cultures, International Affairs/Foreign Policy
Beer :clap:
Music, not songs necessarily, especially for cutting music for skating programs and matching skaters with the right music for programs.

I find people come to me ALOT with lots of different questions. It's prolly cause I love so many different things, I study just about anything.

[Yankee 21]

Hmmm..
anything legal..just finished writing a letter to a judge and notorizing it for a friend
Anything computer related whether it be installing stuff, trying to figure out why somethings not working to finding and bidding on stuff on Ebay to finding anything that no one else can find
Anything about horses or racing..was holding a horse the other day for a friend to give him a shot of bute and she couldn't hit the vein and I ended up telling her to give me the damn needle cuz she was making a pin cushion out of him.
Baseball..most sports in general
Trvia stuff