I'm largely a master of skills/intelligences that don't get much use, I should have and could have stayed with the military and gone into intelligence, reconnaissance or something spy or tactics oriented. I'm very good with psychology, sociology and the related sciences. I am terrible at math, accounting and chemistry. Instead I'll be taking all of this and putting it to use in game development after I go back to college.
My Father holds a masters in business with honors from the University of Liverpool and is now putting that to use after his retirement from the military as an officer. His original trade was air weapons control (similar to air traffic only bringing planes together instead of apart, if you get my meaning) As such it was necessary for him to be quite the math wiz. The business side of things comes in to play with his much better understanding of how money can be put to work for a person instead of a person working for money, I have a really difficult time understanding many of those things, and prefer to keep my money simple. My father is also a fairly decent carpenter and handyman, which I learned from him.
My mother's educational background is in psychology (not sure what type of degree) She is terrible at math but very good with English. It bothers me very much that she no longer works in psychology and works in retail, however that is her choice and she has far more wisdom and life experience than I do at this point in my life.
And for bonus my sister is a great photographer with aspirations to go into architecture (with the brains to do that).
Take from this what you will, but I am definitely not smarter than my parents as we have our strengths and weaknesses.
Hopefully this is all somewhat coherent, I'm trying not to fall asleep at work right now.
