Things you should know how to do by 30

[tik 🪀✨]

These are from one of those kinds of sites and I skipped a few that are honestly more important skills to have but were extra abstract (such as knowing how to admit you were wrong) or were pretty wanky ("can you travel hack??") or redundant. I also added a few I thought it left out that I thought of or found on other places.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Things I could do at 30 (I haven't learned any new ones since then):

Swim
Change a tire
Jump start a car
Cook an egg
Communicate with new people
Negotiate
Tell a story
Read a map and navigate without gps etc
Parallel park
Prepare and cook a real meal
Google efficiently
Touch type (you should seriously know how to do this LONG before 30, if you graduate high school today and you can't there's a problem.)
Do your laundry (See above.)

I'm not sure what's meant by "Program" if it refers to computer programming/coding I can do a little bit of that, but there's no reason why anyone has to if unless it's their job. And I've made a few basic websites too, but once again, that's not really something anyone aside from a professional web designer needs to do anymore.

[J-Mann]

I marked all except for:

 - CPR
 - Speaking more than one language well (I can speak some Spanish, just not well)
 - Sew
 - Sing or play an instrument (I don't think anyone would love my singing voice)
 - Drive a manual transmission

The last is particularly humiliating for me. I had a poor learning experience with a manual, gave up on it and have never had the need to know how.

[Ban my account ffs!]

All but

Program
Make a website
Give a speech
Invest in the stock market
Write formally
Draw

[Ban my account ffs!]

I marked all except for:

 - CPR
 - Speaking more than one language well (I can speak some Spanish, just not well)
 - Sew
 - Sing or play an instrument (I don't think anyone would love my singing voice)
 - Drive a manual transmission

The last is particularly humiliating for me. I had a poor learning experience with a manual, gave up on it and have never had the need to know how.

Awww...i imagine you driving an old four on the floor bronco.  I learned stick at 16. Its not hard...really...just find an old one and find a dirt road.  And practice.

[retromike22]

One my least knowledgeable subjects is anything having to do with a car. And one of my least desirable activities is domestic housework other than keeping things organized and dust-free.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

"Basic car maintenance" is a weird one too. That would sound like it'd refer to things like oil changes...which the vast majority of people can not do on their own, and is a rather cheap and easy to procure procedure.

[Tender Branson]

Let's see:

Start a fire without matches or a lighter: Know it theoretically from "Dual Survival" and Bear Grylls, but never done it myself so far
Other basic survival skills: Depends what is meant with this
Grow vegetables: Yes
Swim: Yes
Change a tire: Yes, do it twice a year
Jump start a car: Yes, have done it
Program: Only basic knowledge from school
Make a website: Did it in school, never needed it later
Cook an egg: Yes of course
Perform CPR: Yes, everyone who wants to get a driving license in Austria needs to take a course
Dress yourself appropriately: LOL, yes
Communicate with new people: Yes
Lift your own weight: Don't know, I never lift weights gym-style
Give a speech: Yes, but not really good at it
Negotiate: Yes
Tell a story: Yes
Defend yourself: Yes
Invest in the stock market: Never done it
Speak more than one language well: Yes, Deutsch/English/Italiano
Make and keep to a budget: Yes, I'm very fiscally conservative myself and have a good surplus
Draw: Yes, lol (but not good)
Read a map and navigate without gps etc: Yes, LOL.
Sew: Yes, socks and basic clothing. Hardly do it though.
Drive a manual transmission vehicle: I own one and of course I know how to
Sing or play an instrument: I sing, but awfully. Can play some guitar.
Basic car maintenance: Yepp, do it every once in a while
Parallel park: Sure
Write in a formal way: Yes of course
Perform basic first aid: Yepp
Prepare and cook a real meal: Yepp
Google efficiently: LOL, yeah
Own basic tools and know how to use them: Yepp, but my brother is much better at it (construction worker)
Touch type: Yes (normal)
Do your laundry: Of course

[TNF]

There are people that don't know how to swim at 30?

[Indy Texas]

There are people that don't know how to swim at 30?

For someone who claims to be such a champion of the poor and marginalized, you clearly don't know very many.

[TNF]

There are people that don't know how to swim at 30?

For someone who claims to be such a champion of the poor and marginalized, you clearly don't know very many.

I work four jobs, spend every dollar I make, and have little free time on account of it. I work with plenty of people who do the same. So get off your high horse with this pedantic bullsh**t 'hurr TNF doesn't know poor people because he doesn't know there are people who don't know how to swim derp'.

[bedstuy]

There are people that don't know how to swim at 30?

For someone who claims to be such a champion of the poor and marginalized, you clearly don't know very many.

I work four jobs, spend every dollar I make, and have little free time on account of it. I work with plenty of people who do the same. So get off your high horse with this pedantic bullsh**t 'hurr TNF doesn't know poor people because he doesn't know there are people who don't know how to swim derp'.

Yeah, it must be a cultural thing.  

There's that whole thing that "blacks don't know how to swim" because in big cities public pools, beaches and vacations would be the main method of learning to swim.  And, of course, black people were kept from joining the YMCA or swimming at a public pool or beach.  

But, in more rural areas, you have the ole swimmin' hole or whatever and swimming is not such a racial/class division thing.

[badgate]

I'm 25, and I selected 18/34, which is 53%.

[Indy Texas]

There are people that don't know how to swim at 30?

For someone who claims to be such a champion of the poor and marginalized, you clearly don't know very many.

I work four jobs, spend every dollar I make, and have little free time on account of it. I work with plenty of people who do the same. So get off your high horse with this pedantic bullsh**t 'hurr TNF doesn't know poor people because he doesn't know there are people who don't know how to swim derp'.

Yeah, it must be a cultural thing.  

There's that whole thing that "blacks don't know how to swim" because in big cities public pools, beaches and vacations would be the main method of learning to swim.  And, of course, black people were kept from joining the YMCA or swimming at a public pool or beach.  

But, in more rural areas, you have the ole swimmin' hole or whatever and swimming is not such a racial/class division thing.

Basically. But it's also an issue for a lot of Asian immigrants. My dad grew up in a well-to-do Middle Eastern family and never learned how to swim. I know a lot of people with Indian/Pakistani/Southeast Asian/etc parents who don't know how either due to the general cultural norms and expectations there.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Touch type (you should seriously know how to do this LONG before 30, if you graduate high school today and you can't there's a problem.)

I think you can allow that this is something you get into gradually. You can still type pretty fast without being completely independent of your sight. The one that concerns me is sewing. A small number of people may just not have the hand-eye coordination for it but otherwise basic sewing is an important life skill for self-reliance in a lot of situations, plus it will save you a lot of money on clothes and gear if you can repair them.

[Хahar 🤔]

To tie together what bedstuy and IndyTX said, my grandparents all learned how to swim as children but neither of my parents can swim. My grandparents were raised in riverine rural Bengal, whereas my parents grew up in congested Dhaka and had no occasion to learn.

[Torie]

Your own sexuality. Alas, I flunked that test.

[© tweed]

Your own sexuality. Alas, I flunked that test.

that assumes it's a static object, to be discovered.

[Torie]

Your own sexuality. Alas, I flunked that test.

that assumes it's a static object, to be discovered.

You're getting complicated on me now.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Draw (not people)

If you can't draw people, you can't draw. End of.

[angus]

I voted for swim, cook an egg, dress yourself, give a speech, tell a story, defend yourself, and read a map.