What are some tangible skills?

I know you said 2nd language, but I would like to add interpreter for the deaf.

Sales is a skill too. We may not like it, but manipulating a sale is definitely a skill. And so is fund raising, which is a form of sales.

Farming should be broken up into crops and animal husbandry.

Erosion control. This is definitely a skill that can prevent disasters like floods. Sedimentation buildup in streams and ponds is a real problem where erosion isn't considered before disturbing land.

Rug making - by hand as in latch hook, or on a weaving machine.

Acting

Candle making.

Sports - not everyone can leap over a man's head like I saw on the play offs last week.

Teaching - yes it takes skill. Especially the skill of inspiration.

Speaking of inspiration, how about public speaking.

Designing - clothing, gardens, homes, and business (industrial design is quite complicated).

You said CDL, but what about other driving skills - like high speed competition driving (NASCAR) or delivery driving like pizza.

What about medical, dental, and chiropractic skills? I wouldn't want an unskilled person trying to take my blood or fix my teeth. These things aren't just training. Imagine a surgeon with a shaky hand.

Good work.

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I found myself very unprepared for the real world in several areas, and found myself being made fun of in college for not knowing basic things, sometimes to my detriment. Before my kids leave the house they will know: 1. How to do laundry at a Laundromat 2. How to wash dishes, if you don't have a dishwasher machine 3. How to make grilled cheese sandwiches, ramen noodle soup, muffins, AND a hamburger in a frying pan. 4. They will have their own bank account, technically a joint account with a parent, the first time they get a job and will understand the concept of how a debit card works, and unfortunately, how overdraft works. 5. They will know how the dewy decimal system works in case their is a power outage and they need to write a report by using *gasp* books! 6. They will have a AAA card until they have their own apartment/house. 7. They will know the actual cost of things, like toilet paper, and what kind of quality you get if you skimp, they are not all the same! 8. They will understand which over the counter medicines I have been giving them their entire lives, and where to buy it, and what to use it on. (Just giving your kid a cup full of purple stuff and making them swallow doesn't tell them what it was!) 9. They will understand that not everyone can be trusted, and not everyone is looking out for THEIR best interest. 10. I will inform my daughter about the dangers of drinking and being around men when that happens, and I will tell my son what is right and wrong concering any female under the influence, no matter how she acts.

I think activities like speaking foreign languages, writing, poetry and all those related to knowledge and mental skills are not tangible... However, all kind of hand crafts are tangible skills.

Calligraphy can be a tangible skill (in some countries there are people who write ads at the walls by following a calligraphy pattern, but they don't know what they're writing, because they're illiterate). So writing and reading are non tangible skills.

Lilith M./Psychic Advisor

Accounting, Filing paperwork, and maybe pet care. Well I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but ad least I hope it is what you are looking for.

Stone, granite, and tile work. preaching, teaching, comedian, philosopher, actor, musician, moonshiner, network marketer, gambler, prostitute, race car driver, scuba diver, caver, rock climber, electronics, surveyor, interrogator, terrorist, missionary, drug dealer, animal trainer, and animal groomer.

Some people are incredibly creative problem solvers.