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30 Skills that Merit Life Experience Credit

By Jamie Littlefield, About.com

Don’t think you have any skills that merit life experience credit? Think again. If presented properly, any of these talents or activities may be worthy of instant credit.

    • playing the piano

    • leading a church group

    • running a boyscout troup

    • creating a company

    • selling real estate or loans

    • speaking Itallian

    • tutoring children

    • assisting a political campaign

    • attending a conference

    • teaching high school

    • teaching Sunday school

    • living abroad

    • working at a garage

    • writing poetry

    • learning CPR

    • working in advertising

    • studying plants

    • writing for the newspaper

    • volunteering

    • dancing

    • acting for television

    • participating in the military

    • learning sign language

    • working at a zoo

    • trading stocks

    • teaching singing lessons

    • building houses

    • cooking dinners

    • creating a website

    • living abroad

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