Skillsets for Submissives

[topthemonkey]

I've been thinking a bit about this recently.

I'm providing for my slavegirl in every way. There are things she's interested in studying, and things I'm interested in having her study. There's skills I want her to learn because I want her to be able to relate to my job, and to my frustations. I want to be able to explain the work I do without feeling like I'm explaining it to a cat. I want to be able to ask for help with the projects I don't feel like I have enough time to do. I want her to be working in a field where I can offer some insight.

I want my pet to either go the distance, and become an educator...or go into library and information sciences.

I want her to learn HTML. I want her to learn perl, or some other programming language -- not because she may be coding, but so she has a grasp of how to think that way. I want her to learn SQL. Especially SQL. I think once she grasps it, the rest will become easy.

There's really only two reasons to learn things:

• Because she wants to.
• Because I want her to.

From there, there are other sub-reasons, as above: because it serves to offload the things I do, because it lets her do more in the relationship, because it's fun, because it's a prerequisite for a career. But in the nature of this relationship, either of the above should be equally important. Half her effort to pursue new skills, at least, should be the things I want her to learn.

I'm watching her do bookbinding right now. It makes her happy. It looks like fun. It's not quite my fun, but I could definitely appreciate getting her better materials, better tools, giving her the most to work with. I have respect for what she wants to learn. I simply want the same respect from her. As much time as she spends bookbinding, I'd want her to spend trying to learn how to, say, make a webpage about what she did.