Are You An "Expert" At Anything?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Are You An "Expert" At Anything? (Page 1 of 3)

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:45:35 AM EDT

If so, please tell where your expertise lies and how you gained the experience and knowledge that made you an expert in your particular area.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:47:14 AM EDT

[#1]

Quality Systems as defined by the FDA Quality System Regulation and ISO.

Method: 10 years in the industry doing almost nothing but.

Oh, and I still have tons to learn. I hate calling myself an expert on anything, as there is always something additional to be learned.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:50:39 AM EDT

[#2]

Echoing Zaphod's comments, I don't like calling myself an expert in anything - somebody always knows more.

That said, I design call centers for a living, and I'm pretty good at it. Rather than post a laundry list of everything I know having worked in I.T. for 8+ years, I'll just say that I'm pretty good with computers 'n' shit.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:51:05 AM EDT

[#3]

I'm an expert at being me. That's about it.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:51:09 AM EDT

[#4]

I am really good at finding boobs on the intenet. Not sure if I am an expert yet though.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:51:11 AM EDT

[#5]

Company sent me to some trianing calsses. Training school gave me a certificate saying I was a certified expert in Microsoft Excel 2000.

I guess that counts.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:52:01 AM EDT

[#6]

Nope, nothing.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:55:03 AM EDT

[#7]

I am an expert on Star Wars.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:55:06 AM EDT

[#8]

The one thing I am pretty decent at is Unigraphics modeling. I don't know that I would say I am an expert at it, but I know that I am better than many. I do enjoy being able to do things that many with as much or more experience can't figure out. It makes me feel that I am at least good at something.

I have done it for 10+ years.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:55:06 AM EDT

[#9]

getting in trouble

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:56:26 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Echoing Zaphod's comments, I don't like calling myself an expert in anything - somebody always knows more.

That said, I design call centers for a living, and I'm pretty good at it. Rather than post a laundry list of everything I know having worked in I.T. for 8+ years, I'll just say that I'm pretty good with computers 'n' shit.

Exactly

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:57:48 AM EDT

[#11]

Arguing. Internet trained.

Special Olympics qualified.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:59:18 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Arguing. Internet trained.

Special Olympics qualified.

Posted: 1/6/2006 10:59:36 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Arguing. Internet trained.

Special Olympics qualified.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:01:03 AM EDT

[#14]

As with many on arfcom that have very specific training and jobs, I can in fact be described as an expert.

Without sounding arrogant (assuming I am even capable of that

) my "expertise" lies in a specific sub-field of team and job design, and I've gained that expertise through my Ph.D. training and years of empiricial research and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. When I turn in my tenure packet later this year, I will in all honesty claim to be the current leading expert in the world on this narrow topic. But, it is a very specialized field, so being an expert is not really that impressive - it just makes me an incredible nerd.

ETA: I am also considered an expert by some when it comes to a particular sub-type of hierarchial multiple regression analysis. (But that's unrealted to the content of my research, just a specific research methods paper I have published that gets cited a lot)

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:01:31 AM EDT

[#15]

Ex = former has been

Spurt = strong dribble

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:02:55 AM EDT

[#16]

I am an expert at wasting time.

I'm Arfcom qualified.

I know something about flying, but the real expertise is time wasting.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:02:55 AM EDT

[#17]

Halo and Halo 2. I'm not the best person playing the games, but I am good. But ask me just about ANYTHING about the single-player universe or the multiplayer game.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:02:56 AM EDT

[#18]

ETA - skip that previous line of bovine scatterings... I'm an expert at drinking beer and shooting the shit with my friends.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:03:21 AM EDT

[#19]

pissin' & moanin'

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:04:31 AM EDT

[#20]

Expert at being on ARFcom while I'm supposed to be working.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:04:45 AM EDT

[#21]

I am an expert at taking random crappy food and putting it together to taste great. Ah being broke..

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:05:43 AM EDT

[#22]

I grown to be pretty good in the field of getting shit-faced drunk and never puking.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:05:43 AM EDT

[#23]

Expert Beer Drinker.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:06:13 AM EDT

[#24]

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:07:49 AM EDT

[#25]

Im not an expert at anything.

But I try to be better than most people at everything

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:08:26 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Nope, nothing.

+1

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:12:13 AM EDT

[#27]

subscribe.theonion.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_20&products_id=173

heheh

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:14:37 AM EDT

[#28]

Pretty much an expert at finding free pron on the intraweb.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:17:39 AM EDT

[#29]

I am an expert at being lazy and wasting time.

Keep in mind I work a full time job, go to school 6-9 hours a semester, train in kung fu and full contact kick boxing and play soccer.

So the little time I do have that is free, I can make the most of it.
I mean seriously, wasting time is an artform that I have mastered.
I meant to be an expert at procrastinating but I guess I 'll get around to it later.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:19:14 AM EDT

[#30]

I am very good at blaming democrats for everything. But then again, it's not that difficult because it all really is their fault.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:26:21 AM EDT

[#31]

Yes, I am concidered an expert at what I do. In fact, I'm probably considered to be one of the best in the world at what I do.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what that is because I'm a member of such a tiny community of professionals that with knowledge of what I do and where I am located, anyone could figure out specifically who I am and I value my online anonymity.

But I can tell you this. I got to where I am by serendipity. I sort of fell into it, or sort of naturally gravitated to it. It uses talents that I've always possessed but didn't always use for this particular thing. But it seems that for all of my previous existance, if I was doing something that I really loved, it had application to what I'm doing now.

I can also tell you that I don't earn a large income, but it is sufficient to take care of my needs.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:28:22 AM EDT

[#32]

Storage Area Networking

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:30:22 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Company sent me to some trianing calsses. Training school gave me a certificate saying I was a certified expert in Microsoft Excel 2000.

I guess that counts.

What about spelling?

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:40:17 AM EDT

[#34]

Killing beers.

Then posting on arf.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:40:25 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Hell yea! And thank you for earning it!

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:44:44 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I am very good at blaming democrats for everything. But then again, it's not that difficult because it all really is their fault.

LMAO!!!!

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:45:32 AM EDT

[#37]

the bar business. i do a ton of informal consulting for owners, prospective owners, and managers, and have helped design or redesign many new opens and existing businesses.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:47:18 AM EDT

[#38]

Expert bloviator.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:48:29 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Company sent me to some trianing calsses. Training school gave me a certificate saying I was a certified expert in Microsoft Excel 2000.

I guess that counts.

What about spelling?

He said Microsoft Excel, not Microsoft WORD.

Posted: 1/6/2006 11:55:19 AM EDT

[#40]

At everything, actually.

Just ask me, I'll tell ya.

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:00:48 PM EDT

[#41]

As my sig says....

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:01:36 PM EDT

[#42]

no, I am a novice at many things though.

guitar
voice
paintball
art

nothing tangible

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:03:05 PM EDT

[#43]

Well, I am pretty good with a bowstaff and avoiding Chuck Norris's Roundhouse Kicks and full powershots from squatdog

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:03:35 PM EDT

[#44]

I am an expert at telling the difference between good pie and bad pie.

I do this type of work as a consultant. For Arfcom members I test out their prospective wives and girlfriends for free. IM me if you need my services.

Actually I am an expert at pressurized buildings. When I tell people this, I usually get the deer in the headlights look.

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:06:42 PM EDT

[#45]

I am very good at the assembly of certain firearms but by no means am I an expert. (Oh yeah, I can take um apart too)

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:07:13 PM EDT

[#46]

'60s ~'70s Italian car parts.
Every fall a couple of guys in the business, an American and a German, fly me to Germany/Italy to accompany them to a parts show, and usally a few warehouse's, just to look at and identify what's being offered. Two years ago, they brought me to Argentina for the same reason. I've had vehicle's pictured in magazine's and books and one chosen as the display model at a 100yr anniversary for the marque.

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:07:45 PM EDT

[#47]

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:21:57 PM EDT

[#48]

Drug dealer.

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:32:24 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
www.vspa.com/images-vspa/af-ribbon-small-arms-expert-marksman-ribbon.jpg

+1

Expert on M9 Beretta and Grenades.

(29/30 on M9 and like everyone else, I freaking SWEAR I hit that target that didnt go down)
(7/7 on grenades

)

Have been 1 away from Expert on the 16 one time.

Posted: 1/6/2006 12:37:09 PM EDT

[#50]

Actually yes and if I told you what, you'd have no idea what it is even after I told you. It took 30 years of working in a very obscure and nitch market.

Tj

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