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I'd trade my dick sucking skills for skill at playing guitar.

I'd trade 90's computer skills for 90's social skills. Because 90's social skills are relevant today, while it's been a while since I've had to resolve IRQ conflicts via jumpers. And switches no longer have a ~~Chasey Lain~~ daisy chain port thanks to multiplexing.

Id trade the skill of knowing how many carbs are in any dish with the skill to naturally release insulin to process the carbs of any dish. Or am i trading a skill for a perk?

I need better emotional regulation. I wish I could just go "Yeah this is going to completely suck" and then get it done.

I would trade my accumulated engineering training and skills in order to be a great musician. I'm done with office work, staring at a screen all day, and coming home mentally exhausted. I want to be able to go to a jam session and shred with the best.

I'd trade the ability to pick up my underwear with my foot and toss it into the laundry hamper for invisibility.

I would trade all my skill and knowledge in history and geography for just being able to program in rust

I have the jack-of-all-trades skill.

I can play guitar, piano, cello, oboe, drums and sing, write computer programs, poetry and short stories, read at a fairly fast pace (I've clocked myself at over 1800 pages a day, 4 full novels, without skipping sleep), I have decent eidetic memory, I've read multiple encyclopedia's from A to Z, I am apparently unable to get lost, I can do carpentry and electrical work, home repairs, automobile repairs, fix electronics, toys, gewgaws and gadgets, I know dozens of stupid human tricks like folding joints out of place and flipping eyelids, crossing eyes and flexing tongue.

I have literally never run into anything that I cannot do to some degree other than a pull-up or play the classical flute.

If I had to trade that skill for something else, I do not know how to properly value it. All I know is that everyone around me considers it basically worthless.

I'd trade my writing skills for coding skills. I feel like I'd be happier programming than teaching kids how to write.

Trading my "people always want to tell me what went wrong in their life"-superpower for excellent executive function. Pretty please.

Knowledge of Mandarin-Chinese for Knowledge of Japanese

I like Anime 😁, but haven't really used Mandarin for over a decade so I feel like Japanese would be a better use of brain capacity for me.

I would gladly change my math ability, that is small, for some musical ability, that is non existent.

I would trade my very limited woodworking skills for equally limited artistic skills of any type, ideally music related.

I would trade some other skills (really any pick) for extra house improvement skills. It’s not even that I’m bad at it, I’m just too nervous to fuck it up to even start…

Id probably trade my gaming skills for any sort of artistic skill. At least then I could be good at something that you can make an income from.

So many folks here just mentioning things that with time and effort they could just straight-up learn.

Music isn't magic, Art isn't something you're born with

Useful doesn't mean you'll enjoy it. I have the math skills but no musical skills. I wish I could sit on my patio and strum a guitar.

I can whistle without moving my lips. I'd trade that for the ability to play football at a world competative level.

Na i am good. I might be just a bartender, but I gave so much to become one of the best in my trade. Giving away that would mean giving away part of myself. I paid a high price to get where I am now and I am good damn proud of myself.

But if I had to I would want to git gud. Always wanted to be able to beat Dark Souls with ease.

I would trade my video game ability for basically anything else in the world. Im no longer a world-champion contender level of skill, and without charisma its worthless.

I'd like to trade it in for carpentry or any handymannery.

I'd keep music skills, OP. The world has enough calculators.

My skill at driving a car would be transformed into helicopter pilot. I hear they make good money and I can always get a motorcycle or take Uber.

So many music answers here, I didn't expect that.

Maybe my ability to "sing" by vibrating just my lips together, in exchange for absolutely anything useful. I don't know if anyone else can do that, so if we're going by a kind of bell curve way of measuring "talent", it could fix a lot for me.

I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair

Interesting, why? You'd think they both are things you either have to do yourself or pay someone for.