Poll: What skill has been most valuable in your career? Persoa que publicou o fío: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What skill has been most valuable in your career?".
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All of them + a lot of patience and perseverance...
| | | | Mario Chávez
United States
Local time: 01:08
English to Spanish
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| What is your favorite color? What is your horoscope sign? And so on. | Mar 10 |
And inane questions are back in fashion. As if.
Questions such as this poll's remind me of infantile queries directed at, well, children: what's your favorite color? What's your favorite toy? What's your favorite cartoon?
The infantilization of Western society (starting with that so-called example of freedom of [making dumb] choices, America, continues unabated. I was never, and I'm not, part of it.; I find mediocrity and infantilization of adult conversation distastefu... See more And inane questions are back in fashion. As if.
Questions such as this poll's remind me of infantile queries directed at, well, children: what's your favorite color? What's your favorite toy? What's your favorite cartoon?
The infantilization of Western society (starting with that so-called example of freedom of [making dumb] choices, America, continues unabated. I was never, and I'm not, part of it.; I find mediocrity and infantilization of adult conversation distasteful, gauche, grotesque, unintelligent and uninteresting.
But I'm not alone and neither are you. Let's rise against this dumbification of thought and conversation.
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| | | | Michael Newton 
United States
Local time: 01:08
Japanese to English
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| What skill most valuable? | Mar 10 |
Have you ever helped a toad cross the road?
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 07:08
English to German
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Mario Chávez wrote:
inane questions
infantile queries directed at, well, children
infantilization
mediocrity and infantilization of adult conversation distasteful, gauche, grotesque, unintelligent and uninteresting.
dumbification of thought and conversation.
MC
What makes you think all that in relation to this basic business question?
Many people don't even know what good communication can do for their careers...
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It's impossible to say which skill has been the most valuable because our careers are always based on a mix of skills. No one skill is enough on its own.
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 06:08
Serbian to English
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| Bugs (sorry, domestic pets) ... | Mar 11 |
Bugs (sorry, domestic pets) roaming free again through the site?
When you click on the link to 'View the poll results' all you get is:
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As for 'the most valuable skill' I would say that's being in the right place at the right time, although you could argue that that's more pure luck ...
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