Lack of Useful Profitable Skills

 

 

I am always realizing that I have a lack of useful profitable skills. I notice people teaching workshops in camera operation or lighting for film and video and so forth. I’m no good at any of those things… I should be taking workshops but I’m too proud to do so. I do see workshops in grant writing and think I could be good at that and thus get hired to conduct such a workshop, but I’m not good with technologies in performing situations, so I never apply for these jobs. Grant writing is a variation of bullshitting….making oneself or one’s organization seem more important and essential than they really are. So, perhaps I could actually teach a workshop in Bullshitting… referring to self-promotion but also to making up scenarios that are more interesting and even exciting than any form of reality. But, for most of the population, this is a dubious skill and there would never be any approval of such a hypothetically-proposed workshop. So I’m useless, which makes me not atypical of artists, although artists at least theoretically have teachable skills.