Blog Prompt #4

 Skills are something I think people overlook a lot until they need them.  In my career as a line cook and eventually a sous chef, I spent a lot of time acquiring, refining, and teaching different skills.  I always was watching others around me do things.  Anything.  A lot of cooks are very set in their ways, and feel they really know their stuff.  I found that to be false almost 100% of the time.  Every so often however, I would see someone do something quicker, easier, faster, or better in some way than my method.  I would then try it myself and if it proved superior, I would adopt it as my new method and move on.  Any time I am working I am learning.  Learning to work faster, safer, more efficient (cost or time), makes you more valuable until you eventually become invaluable to your employer.  So far in this class I can not say I have picked up any life-altering skills, however I have picked up some I plan to keep.  Until this class, I had never made a template of any kind.  Now knowing how to create templates for letters, memos, etc I can make turning in my weekly reports in my trades classes a lot easter instead of having to re-create a condiment over and over.  I also learned how to work with new websites and understand new lingo, and how to apply that knowledge to my resume-making skills.  These skills would not necessarily boost my resume if I added them as skills, however they will boost my resume itself when I apply them to the creation process of my resume.  I look forward to developing and learning more skills to help continuously improve my arsenal of hidden and visible skills.