Can I tell you something I love about my family? 

We're fix-it people.  Figure-it-out people.  Problem solvers. 

And my sister Kim among the most.  Maybe not in the "replace the pipe in the kitchen sink" way (because we also disdain things being done in a poor or shoddy way and if we don't think we have the required capability, we won't do it), but definitely in the "I bet I could figure that out" way.  If it comes down to it, all three of us girls can work from what we do know to what we don't.  We know how to research, how to try, and how to learn from mistakes.   Check out these cards Kim designed.

 Granted, she does have some training in graphic design (she is an incredible wedding card designer, and a number of years ago she had some private lessons for Photoshop, etc.), but she just is great at figuring stuff out and teaching herself.  She's taken a number of jobs she didn't necessarily have experience in, and by hard work and her ability to learn, she's become excellent at each.  She inspires me.  Truly.  New jobs aren't easy, and new industries are even more difficult.   Yet, she's used what she knows to transition and master what was once completely unfamiliar to her.  I love it.  And I love her.
As I've have the opportunity to be training people for the past month and a half (like that word choice? Opportunity), I've discovered just how much I appreciate when people are really go-getters and problem solvers.  There's a reason why that comes up in so many interviews, and while any intelligent applicant will describe himself as a "problem solver", it's really not a common characteristic.  And it makes for good employees.  If I ever own a business, I am going to find a way to really test if people are in the interview process.  And in the meantime, I'm going to be grateful for however my parents managed to impart that into us kids - and their parents into them.