How can I reapply my skills to other areas if my industry no longer has growth opportunities?
One of the things that I learned in my household was to always donate my skills and time.
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"I was helping rich people get richer and I thought my skills could be better used, " he said.
After graduation, I knew what I want to do, how to use my skills in a meaningful way.
My goal was to offer my skills to help find a way for a small organization to make a big difference.
"After the Cotto fight I realized my defense wasn't what it should be and I had to hone my skills, " Mayweather said.
She helped me focus on how I could best demonstrate my skills.
After graduation, to put my skills to use, I moved to Cairo, and then to Tunisia, where I just finished working with divorced women.
"Clothing is wearable art and I want to use my skills to create something beautiful that reflects the cultural heritage of my tribe, " Okuma said.
"I am actually 20 years in sport, in boxing, and never ever in 20 years I use my skills outside of the ring, " he said.
Education is the key to empowerment and through my Lions club, I use my skills as a registered nurse to provide healthcare access to underserved populations.
"Like anything, it takes a little bit of time, but my skills as a footballer probably suit the 10 position more than the 15 position, " said Norton-Knight.
While I appreciate the knowledge I gained from my calculus and physics classes, none of these courses developed my skills in premier leadership, personal growth and career success.
With this I hope to use my skills as a physician to help provide medical care where it is not readily available within the US as well as abroad.
But I found that talking about how my sabbatical would be centred on the history of places I longed to visit, and how I planned to volunteer my skills as a lawyer where I could, helped to keep the conversation positive.
However, once I was there I discovered the only part -- other than Halloween parties -- I truly enjoyed was my work study job in IT, so I left after a year or so and put my skills to use in the job market.
Even later when family obligations led me to my longest job, as a science editor at the MIT Press, my main enthusiasm, done after hours and gratis, was in using my skills to help out projects having a chance of bringing about social change.
It was time to combine my professional skills with my personal life.
Rather than just practicing what was fun, I made sure always to work on my weakest skills.
Sharply honed as my survival skills had become, some residual upper-middle-class indifference to the weather had left me unprepared for winter.
Working on my leadership skills and putting myself out there and once I am able to do that, ask for a promotion and pay raise.
This may well reflect on my modest skills as an interviewer.
As the comment thread in my LightSquared story shows, readers have not been shy about offering their opinions about my reporting skills, impartiality, base level of intelligence or ancestry.
And while I can read from the "Haggadah" in English (my language skills have improved somewhat since I was first called upon to recite the Four Questions), it's not the same thing.
"I had already done the second act, taking my journalism skills and putting them in a place I thought was meaningful -- helping people that were sick and dying, " said Sammons, 52.
Of course my stereotyping skills are not foolproof.
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Without the skills and expertise that is a result of excelling, I would never have the chance to sit at the important tables to participate in the discussions, no matter how great my social skills.
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