Obsolete Skills

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fast forwarding between songs on a cassette tape

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remembering track numbers on cds

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Wedging the match book just right under the eight track tape so it wouldn't play 2 songs at once.

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While this might be arguable, I think driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art. Less and less new cars feature the standard option, and fewer of the younger generations know how to drive this type of car.

[stinkypete]

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2) Colleagues: can't calculate exponential half lives, square roots, awkward division in your head, etc... This is just [censored] pathetic. You are in graduate school. This tilts the [censored] out of me.

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lol. last time i checked, doing tedious calculations in your head wasn't even remotely useful for getting into or getting through grad school, regardless of the field. there's no good reason to have any of those skills. if that tilts you, you have serious issues.

what do you study and at what school?

[stinkypete]

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While this might be arguable, I think driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art. Less and less new cars feature the standard option, and fewer of the younger generations know how to drive this type of car.

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this is really only true in north america.

[El Diablo]

People,

Any further responses that either:

a) are stupid joke responses (funny ones are fine, but yours probably isn't funny).

or

b) don't have at least a sentence explaining why it is a good choice.

will be deleted.

Carry on.

[Dominic]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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I always enjoyed going to the library and doing research...it was like I was solving a mystery...

I remember writing a screenplay that took place in the Amazon among El Dorado and The Lost City of Gold - beforehand, I had to do a lot of research on the subject matter. I got to go to the Library of Congress in DC and search to my heart's content.

Research always helped me come up with plot points and surprising facts I could then put in my screenplays.

I miss it.

[Dominic]

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Being able to change TV channels quietly so you don't wake up your parents from the clunk of the dial on a Saturday afternoon to watch cartoons.

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wow...you just really took me back with that one!

[Dominic]

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fast forwarding between songs on a cassette tape

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remembering track numbers on cds

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Wedging the match book just right under the eight track tape so it wouldn't play 2 songs at once.

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Holy crap, I used to do this too!

...Do I have to explain why so I won't be deleted??

[ahnuld]

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Philuva,

Researching information without the Internet!

It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.

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I dont think ive ever seen anyone doing that in my life. But my mom talks about how much of a pain it was too [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[ahnuld]

stockbrokers are becoming mroe and more obsolete. Do people even use full service brokers anymore? This is more of a job skill that is being made obsolete by discount and online brokeages that let individuals who want to purchase individual stocks do so on their own. That and the growing popularity of ETFs are really gonna make stock brokers a thing of the past pretty soon imo.