#acquire new skills

[dipnots]

10 Proven Ways to Gain New High-Value Skills

Gaining new skills is essential to personal and professional growth. In today’s rapidly changing world, it’s more important than ever to keep up with new trends and technologies. Whether you’re looking to advance your career, start a new business, or simply improve your life, there are many ways to gain new high-value skills. In this blog post, we’ll explore 10 proven ways to acquire the skills…

[hellenhighwater]

hi hellen! i'm a high schooler thinking of pursuing law - i know it's tough to get into, but i'd like to give it a shot. how did you know that it was right for you, and what would you consider to be the most important things to do to prepare to study it in advance? any additional advice would be great, thanks!

Well, the thing you often hear about "oh, you're so good at arguing, you should be a lawyer" is mostly bull. The actual main skills for a lawyer are research, writing, analysis/application, negotiation, debate (not arguing) and emotional regulation. If that sounds appealing, it may be a good fit!

I pretty much always tell people that you should do your bachelor's in something other than prelaw. In fact, it should be in whatever field you would want to have a career in if you weren't a lawyer. Law schools generally do not require specific undergrad majors, as I, with my double art degree can attest. Law school is geared to give you all the basic tools necessary for being a lawyer. I did not notice any meaningful advantage a prelaw major provided to my peers. If you have a particular law school in mind, look into their admissions criteria, but otherwise--get your bachelor's in your backup career.

Work on your reading and writing, and go to court. Courts are open to the public and these days most of them actually have facebook and twitter pages where they post dockets; many courts post-pandemic actually also livestream all proceedings, sometimes right on youtube. Look at what's going on in some of your local courts, and just go watch it happen. You are welcome to sit and watch court proceedings, just don't be disruptive and be prepared to go through a security check. Get a sense for what goes on!

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Do you guys ever think about how violated and detached from her body Anne feels after dying and receiving a new copy of her body. It looks the same, but certain things are different enough to the point where she feels like she’ll never be the same again.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Four: I don’t understand why I’m so… anxious and on edge these days. Like it doesn’t make sense, I never used to be like this. At least not to this degree.

Warriors: Four. As an ICU nurse, what’s your job?

Four: Uh… take care of critically ill people?

Wars: What do you always have to do?

Four: Assume the worst is going to happen, have a plan in place, and always be ready for things to go wrong.

Wars: :)

Four: OK BUT—but that’s just work!

Legend, huffing: You think your brain doesn’t start taking that outside of work?

Four: YOU told me to disconnect work from the rest of my life!

Legend: Yeah! Because of stuff like this!

Sky: So what Legend’s saying is don’t be like him.

Legend: Exactly! Wait��

[innitmarvellous]

I might have learned how to knit...if you want to call it that. Looks like shit, but for a first attempt...crochet was more of a struggle

[pontevoix]

selfie warning: thirst trap 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

[paradise-and-cola]

[Image description: a six panel digital comic, drawn with limited colours. The image backdrop is a light blue, all the panel backgrounds are in black-and-white, and all the speech bubbles are a light brown. Some of the text is obstructed, presumably referring to geographical locations.

Panel 1: PauseUnpause is speaking on a cell phone. Pause wears a brown leather jacket, and two small feathers are tucked behind his ear. There are trees visible behind him. Pause asks: “Beef?”

Panel 2: VintageBeef is speaking on a landline phone. Beef wears a blue baseball cap, his usual black shirt, and one strap of his white apron is also visible. Beef says: “Pause? Is that you?”

Panel 3: Pause is looking at an asphalt road going through a thick forest. There is a car on the road, parked at an unusual angle. Pause says: “Beef, are you still in [blank]?” Beef answers over the phone: “Yea, why?” Pause says: “Can you come pick me up? I’m near [blank], just off the highway. I think my car’s totaled.

Panel 4: A closeup of the car’s front. The car is damaged and there’s a crack in the front window. Off-screen, Beef says: “Oh my god. Are you okay? Are you hurt?!” Pause responds: “Yeah, I’m fine.”

Panel 5: A further closeup of the cracked window. Pause continues: “But I think... I think I might’ve hit someone. Or-“

Panel 6: A creature known as Ethoslab lies across the road, unconscious. Etho has a large mouth with four vampire-like fangs sticking out. There is dark purple discoloration all over his skin, primarily on the left side of his body. The tips of his fingers look sharp and claw-like. Etho is wearing a white ragged t-shirt, black pants and black shoes. Pause continues: “...or something”, with emphasis on “thing”.

Below the last panel, the watermark reads: comic by @paradise-and-cola. End description]

sooo it’s week one of @shepscapades‘ hermit redesign challenge and i already cheated big time. i didn’t feel like doing high fantasy, and thought “hey, what if i used classes from a different ttrpg system?”, and one thing let to another, and now i present to you a Monster of the Week Team Canada AU!

version without text below the cut because i’m really proud of the backgrounds!

[Image description: The same comic as above, but without any speech bubbles and split into two image files. The first image has an added watermark between panels 1 and 3. End description]

[aroacesigma]

Boys when The Character is tragic and doomed and has nothing and never will but is so desperate to change all of that and will fight tooth and nail for it

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 133

so im getting my aradia cosplay back together and my new wig and horns came in today SO i took some pics and used them VERY loosely as reference to get a more semirealistic style sketch?

idk im just VERY excited about this new wig lol

[gunslinginnhogtyin]

Sometimes, when Butch is feeling particularly angry inside and all that anger boiling beneath the surface has been festering for far too long, he finds somewhere nice and secluded to let it all out. Whether that be through screaming at the top of his lungs or hammering his fists against the bulkiest tree trunk he can find until his knuckles are battered, bruised, and bleeding.

This specific occasion was no different except for when his temper flares this time, not only is his head hot but so are his fingertips. He disregards it in the moment, feeling nothing but his emotions, until—WHOOSH!!!

Flames whip from his fingertips abruptly, singeing the edges of his gloves and scorching the bark on the tree he had chosen as his target. Anger melts away fast and is replaced with surprise quickly followed by fear as the cowboy glances down at his hands, sooty vapor still rising from his finger tips.

“What th’ fuck—….” He mutters under his breath with wide eyes and a frown, still in shock by the damage he had done. He looks from his hands and to the tree and then to his hands again. HE had done that.

Though he’s grateful he hadn’t set the thing on fire, he still feels bad for leaving an impression in the bark; it would be a reminder of one of his fits, actions and feelings he didn’t want to remember. On the other hand… could he use fire now? Was that something that came with becoming a demon??? If so, it was… admittedly kind of cool in a fucked up way. Perhaps some more practice was in order but, how the hell had he managed to do it in the first place?

[goldenflowerdragon]

Jasmines very proud of her bow tying skills 💛❤️💛

[sunsmudge-peachmoon]

its odd wrapping up on a blender learning spree and *not* be utterly exhausted by the process therein. like i have half a project done, i should be begging for the ordeal to be over and frustrated supreme, but im not. its unfamiliar to not be tearing my hair out abt this, and im looking forward to the day when i understand this shit better than i do today.

[mantisgodsdomain]

We are just now realizing that still being on the short list of kitten fosterers means that we're going to be having to handle weaning five 3-4 week old kittens that need to be fed every few hours while also having university four to six hours a day and honestly, that's not going to be very fun. We'd say "maybe we should have taken on less art challenges this year" but honestly we've been having a great time with the art challenges it's just the 4-6 hours of school that's been rapidly eroding our soul

[supergameboytwo]

Does being an accountant or an electrician pay more

[kaeyx]

I have been up all night and I feel high

I offer you a bit of baklava I only half botched

[anatidae-alleyway]

if i could channel my seemingly limitless motivation into important tasks as opposed to trying to homebrew a ttrpg for the millionth time id be the Richest Man This Side Of The Mississippi