Are you good at something you hate doing?

Axe_meister · January 2021

I hate writing documentation and training courses. Probably because I am crap at the "making it look good" part but I am (or so I have been told) good at putting the actual content together.
I find it a tedious task, but because I'm good at it, I'm constantly being asked to do it. Yet nobody is willing to step up to make it look good.

skunkwerx · January 2021

Bodging stuff around the house.

Im asked first to try and fix it.

I have no knowledge. Bodge it as a temp repair.

Once thats done there is zero interest in getting it properly remedied lol. So my bodge is a fix to people, and they ask me to fix it again when the repair fails haha.

stickyfiddle · January 2021

Writing proposals for financial advisory work. It’s the biggest most horrible bit of my job.

VimFuego · January 2021

DIY plumbing, I really hate it, it's always in a confined space, you always have to contort yourself to reach a fitting and it's always filthy. I'd much rather get someone in, but I am quite good at it. I could never do it for a living though.

boogieman · January 2021

I’m good at fixing things too but I often don’t get a lot of satisfaction out of it. The problem is I’m too much of a perfectionist and if it doesn’t look right, even though it works perfectly well, it pisses me off every time I look at it. I’m also not a natural at a lot of diy jobs... tradesmen make it all look so bloody easy!

TeleMaster · January 2021

I'm good at confrontation. I absolutely hate doing it but at work when there's an issue I'm always the one asked to go to more senior management and address it, or make complaints to difficult people. I'll do it, and I'll express myself and argue my point effectively, but then I absolutely hate the atmosphere it can create and the way it changes your working relationships, even when you're absolutely in the right, but I am pretty good at it. I'm also good at haggling and fighting my corner with legal matters, retail complaints etc. Don't hate that as much though.

Danny1969 · January 2021

Solving Windows OS and driver faults. I don't mind IT hardware but dealing with Windows and tracking down faults in the registry drives me mad. It's time consuming and annoying that the majority of the world is using such a shit OS with so many problems. I can do it, if I don't understand what's wrong I will keep googling till I do, which is why I'm good at it. But it drives me mad.

munckee · January 2021

I don't hate it as such but I was always very good at darts even though I had no particular interest in playing. I could hit 60's, 100,s 140's most goes and could always finish. Never had any interest in developing it though.

I have a friend who is naturally good at pretty much any sport he tries but never stuck at any of them. He was signed by a premiership team but didn't put the fitness work in and drifted away. He ended up playing in a 5 a side pub team with me and my useless mates - it was like getting pele to play with a non league side he used to score 5 plus goals a game giving it 50%.

Used to annoy the hell out of me!

ICBM · January 2021

Repairing filthy, rusty old valve amps.

LastMantra · January 2021

TeleMaster said:

I'm good at confrontation. I absolutely hate doing it but at work when there's an issue I'm always the one asked to go to more senior management and address it, or make complaints to difficult people. I'll do it, and I'll express myself and argue my point effectively, but then I absolutely hate the atmosphere it can create and the way it changes your working relationships, even when you're absolutely in the right, but I am pretty good at it. I'm also good at haggling and fighting my corner with legal matters, retail complaints etc. Don't hate that as much though.

No you're not!

Stuckfast · January 2021

Even though it's what I do for my job, I don't really enjoy writing that much. For the most part I find it boring and mechanical and a bit of a chore. I get much more satisfaction out of playing, recording or mixing music even though I'm probably less good at it.

ThePrettyDamned · January 2021

I'm not good at much to be honest.

Grumpyrocker · January 2021

Solving family tech issues. I'm pretty much the default person now anyone phones from the family with tech problems.

Mostly I just google the problem, but the result is I appear all-knowing.

adampeter · January 2021

Running strangely, seems my body is suited to endurance, low heart rate, etc, trained and ran marathons with no real problems, wouldn't say i particularly enjoy going to the limits though, especially as i'm fundamentally a lazy F*&ker

digitalscream · January 2021

Yes - my job. Computers, programming, system design...the whole lot.

Never, ever make your hobby your job. You'll grow to hate it eventually.

Most days, I wish I'd taken up fishing instead.

Philly_Q · January 2021

Accountancy....

maltingsaudio · January 2021

I hate recording

EricTheWeary · January 2021

I'm not even any good at anything I like doing.

earwighoney · January 2021

Philly_Q said:

Accountancy....

That genuinely made me chuckle. I do a few bits and pieces for my dad who's an accountant (as are a few others in my family) and they largely share the sentiment.

It's not the actual accountancy but often dealing with clients my family seem to despise the most.

digitalscream said:

Yes - my job. Computers, programming, system design...the whole lot.

Never, ever make your hobby your job. You'll grow to hate it eventually.

Most days, I wish I'd taken up fishing instead.

I'm not an idiot using computers (but not an expert by any stretch) but I really hate using them any more than I should. I miss the time when it was possible to turn them off as well, opposed to always having one in your pocket to check emails, like Instagram posts and so on.
Even though the pay wasn't great, some of the best jobs I ever had were ones which were 'completely offline'.

EricTheWeary · January 2021

When I was younger I had a girlfriend who was going to become an accountant. Her father was an accountant and it was clear he'd never really wanted to do it so I was confused as to why she would. But I visited the family home which was something akin to a stately home in a Yorkshire village so ahh okay, a boring job can buy you a lot of stuff. Although none of my boring jobs have ever really bought me that much stuff. Perhaps I should have become an accountant.

She was last seen heading off toward a job with KPMG, I wonder how she got on.

Grumpyrocker · January 2021

digitalscream said:

Never, ever make your hobby your job. You'll grow to hate it eventually.

I worked in videogames for over a decade. Felt pretty much the same by the end.

People have suggested I do photography professionally, but I say no as I want to carry on enjoying photography.

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