Transferrable skills - feeling grateful!

It's been a while...but thought I would share a quick thought on 'transferable skills' - I think I have taken them for granted and recently realized just how much I use them and how much I have gained as an actor in many other ways. 

It was my nieces 1st birthday and the NCT group wanted an hours entertainment for their joint birthday party - the usual baby sensory teacher was away... so I stepped up; having worked for various party and music and drama classes before, I had quite a lot of equipment already and made a lesson plan. The parents were so impressed and we're all asking about my class and if I do it professionally. I was then asked a week later to run some games for the second party event and constantly asked by my family to 'announce' the order of the day, as I am the confident 'loud one. Again people were asking me about my ability to hold the room and the way I was with the children in the games... 

I realized how it has become second nature to me; confidence in talking to people, working with children, entertaining and generally being able to talk in front of a room of people. As actors/ performers/artists we have so many skills learned from across the many job descriptions/ constant relationships we form, the forever fluid nature of learning on the job and just 'going for it'...

I have recently become quite proud of the skills I have, that I had forgotten not everyone has.

It has made me feel content that I am desirable in many forms through my training and experience and lucky that actually my job/life gets to experience so many different parts of life, relationships with people and provides me with such a wealth of knowledge... 

Gratitude and contentment :-)