Bad at something you really like?

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Are you interested in something you still can't handle? For example chess, physics, or what ever.
I'm really bad at mathematics, but I still like it. I'd do almost anything to be better at it because I like it so much. :P

Hope you get the question.

My husband is in a band and I'm their sound girl. I don't have the best ear for it (doing the mixing for live performances - volumes, balance between 5 instruments and 3 voices, etc) - I feel pretty inadequete when someone else like my assistant sets things up, and the mix sounds way better than anything I could have come up with. I really love doing it though and I'm not too bad at it... no complaints from the audience - they say everything sounds fine, but *I* know it could be better. I'm getting better with practice though.

Math .

Well I like the idea of Dance Dance Revolution, but I seem to have no eye-foot cordinnation.

Drawing the human anatomy.
-I love to make up characters or draw fan art, but i'm absolutley TERRIBLE at getting the bodies to look even passable.

Reading about paranormal and the universe.
-Very interesting but I have a short attention span and end up doing something else >_< (this happens with just about eveything I like, no matter how much I like it)

I like making friends with people and hanging out with them.
-Self explainitory.

I'm really bad at Singning and Karioke, but I'm the first one at the Microphone, when my Clubhouse has Karioke Night. No matter what song I sing, if it was made popular by Non-London Artists, I make it sound like a Punk Song, by the forces of Nature.

I like to sing Karioke(sp?) too, but only in the privacy of my room. I'm not brave enough to sing in front of other people.

I really like soccer. And I'm really bad at soccer.

I can draw people, but unfortunately I can't draw anything else. I want to though. I also would like to be actually good at P.E. as I love it.

Visual art, maths, physics, learning cool songs such as Tom Lehrer's

Um, yeah. Lots of stuff. Playing music too.

Using chopsticks.

Albeit I have entertained many dates this way. It's always good for a cheap laugh.

Singing. Nearly got arrested for treason the last time I sang the National Anthem. Most anything musical, really. Only thing I can play on the piano is John Cage's "Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds"...

I have two...

+ Drawing. I can't draw to save my life. I don't understand perspective at all, I seriously cannot draw. I can - sometimes - draw your simple, smiley-face picture, but that's about the extent of my drawing skills.

+ Singing. I can play several musical instruments, but I sing atrociously. I can sing along when I'm playing, but my singing is badly off-key I've had music lessons and I sat through numerous music exams where one of the requirements was to sing notes out loud. Apparently they didn't work

I am bad at all my intrests when taken into account my timeuse on them.

insects

photographing and editing in photoshop

drawing (or I dont really like drawing that much, I did it more to stressoff at school, instead of stimming)

chemistry

advanced biology

driving, i can't drive but still sit in the car sometime going over all the controls so the next time hopefully i'll be able to finally learn how to drive

I'd love to be practical - to create or fix things - because that's something I love to see, and because I have loads of ideas in my head that I want to explore. Plus every employment test I've ever taken says that I'm a very practical person who values real, earthy things above image. It's true in theory but in practice I'm hopeless, and I don't have the attention span or opportunity to try and learn any of these skills for which I have no natural aptitude!

I'd love to paint or carve wood or play guitar or weld a car up but I'm cr-p at all of those things. So instead I have to do paperwork-based jobs which I'm good at, but hate.