Examples of using your tech skills in real life?

[Pondlife]

I use my contractor skills on a regular basis at home. They ensure I avoid all housework and responsibility.

Can't discuss details now as I have a very important meeting now in... err... the garden, regarding... err... something garden related but very important.

HTH

[nomadd]

I use my contractor skills on a regular basis at home. They ensure I avoid all housework and responsibility.

But most importantly, when you go for a "number 2" at home, do you still use the clients toilet paper?

[Sysman]

I wrote my first website using somebody else's snippets of HTML and a scripting language to drive it from text files.

When I put it through a validator I discovered that the snippets of HTML I'd nicked were extremely dodgy.

Updated the script constants to compliant HTML and hey presto, a website that would pass a validator, without me bothering to really understand HTML.

That trick worked when converting it to HTML 4.0 Strict as well.

And later separating out the CSS.

[d000hg]

I quite often hold my breath and put my head under the water in the bath and can pull the plug out without surfacing.

Diver

I assume you mean you let it drain while holding your breath not simply you can pull the plug out

Stripped my running machine down to the ground after it packed-in completely 6 weeks ago. Grabbed the multimeter and the basic electronics knowledge I'd picked up on the "hardware" side of my computer degree all those years ago. Result, one hour later - with the assistance of my Fluke MM - and she was fixed. Been fine ever since. Saved me £800 on a replacement.

Nothing so advanced but I took a toy guy apart to disable the sound effects so that I could have the advantage of stealth. It was literally pulling one wire off but compared to Joe Average I think figuring out which wire was connected to the loudspeaker counts.

[Cliphead]

I'll tell you when my Raspberry Pi arrives

[doodab]

I build all my own desktop PCs and upgrade and fix laptops. Look after my own bikes as well. And I make my own audio cables.

[Cliphead]

And I make my own audio cables.

Good man! I do too and ethernet cables etc.

[bless 'em all]

I talked a newbie call-center operator through the process to move my phone service to a new but retain my phone number. Poor guy had only had two weeks 'training' and was chucked straight into the deep-end.

Funnily enough I didn't get charged for it.

[Mupps]

I've had to take a soldering iron to my kids' toys on more than one occasion. I make sure i run a narrative of "isn't daddy clever, now work hard at school" while i'm doing it.

[Diver]

I remember making my own laplink cable when I got a pirated copy of Laplink early 90's I think.
I still have the cable too (I had to run an extra wire outside the sheath because there wasn't enough cores)