Snapshot Question: The Many Meanings Of Best

[silveradept]

Two-parter for those wishing to answer. Please provide reasoning and detail to your heart's content.

a) If a question asks you what kind of work best uses your skills, what does that mean to you? Please answer this question completely before proceeding to the next one, so that your answer is not tainted. Write it in the comment box or something.

b) If a question asks you what kind of work best uses your skills, can/does it mean what kind of work most uses your skills? If yes, should it? If no, why not?

Context will follow after some amount of responses are collected and when I can get to a keyboard...

Comments

[shenalia]

A) I can best answer that by restating the question in different terms: "What kind of work are your set of skills best suited for?" (As I've had this question pop up regarding my complaints of being retrained in the military...)

B) It could? I think of it more along the lines of, every person has a -set- of skills, and most jobs use one or two of those skills... but not the whole set. If a person can find a job that uses the -entirety- of their skill set and doesn't require more than that skill set contains - except, perhaps, skills that one can easily develop out of the ones they already have... that would probably be the "best use", IMO.

[silveradept]

That is a better way of phrasing it, certainly. Wish I could have had that before when we were talking about it initially.