What Is "your Talent", I'm becoming worried.. Options

[Wurlon]

Throughout life I have heard the many speeches of "follow your dreams, do what you love, use a talent you have" and others ect. that I assume are used to guide you to a successful, happy life or career. Well that is hopefully, but my main question is how? I cannot find something that I love to do that could become a job, or a talent I have that is useful.. I mean I have (or I am supposed to have) a high intellect, so I could probably work my way into a moderate college. But I do not know what, I know I am quite young but just curious.

If not, feel free to post how you found your talent/talents or how you found a job you would love. Being a parent will be considered a job in here

This post has been edited by Wurlon: Oct 29 2005, 02:27 AM

[Kindred Spirit]

Then I consider myself as a fairly good cook.....

Huh. Surprisingly enough, I'm a decent cook too. Then again, maybe not all that surprising. My mother has an Italian/Polish family, they all cook a lot. I don't like cooking from recipes, I like messing around with them, adding my own changes. I help my mother cook from time to time. The best food we've ever made was this really great stir-fry, and the reason it was so awsome is that we took a recipe from Joy of Cooking and made a few of my little changes. ;)

But I prefer not to learn further cooking skills, I hated that part of Home Economics. For one thing, I am only a good cook because my last second recipe changes are inspired, not learned and beaten into my head. If you aren't allowed to make any changes to the recipe (a la middle school home ec classes) then you can only be as good as everyone else. Having information beaten into your head (like in most classes of any kind) also tend to ruin the inspiration. For another thing, taking a class in cooking wouldn't be very conducive to the profession I want. I figure that when I move out, I'll buy my own copy of The Joy of Cooking (a fifty dollar investment towards good food isn't bad) and add my own little creative changes, and ask someone I know if I really need help for some reason. (trying to make a food which is simply beyond my skills, for example)

Besides, I'm a guy. I'd take a bit of flak for taking cooking classes. ;) (that's the least most important reason, if I wanted to learn to cook better, I would anyways)