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* A character in the lacrosse series ''Baggataway'' gained her speed and throwing skills by working in her parents' ramen shop.
* Takumi from ''[[Initial D]]'' learns his drifting skills by making a nightly tofu delivery up and down a mountain for five years. The only reason he bothered with the drifting, rather than just driving normally? Driving was boring, and he wanted to get home faster. He doesn't even realize exactly what it is he's doing before he begins racing.
* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', this is the explanation given for many of Hayate's non-butler skills. Between the jobs he did for his father and the jobs he did to support himself since he was eight (he's only sixteen at the time of the story). His skills as a butler have a completely different origin.
* Sena of ''[[Eyeshield Twenty One|Eyeshield2121]]'' began developed his exceptional footwork as a result of being bullying into (literally) running errands throughout his school years. He was briefly taught some proper running technique by a football-playing friend of his beforehand, though, and has to put in a lot of hard work to refine his skills for use on the field.
 
== [[Comics]] ==
* Yorick from ''[[Y: theThe Last Man]]'' is an escape artist and magician by hobby. The various magic tricks he's learned has saved his life on more than on occasion.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Andy in ''[[The Goonies (Film)|The Goonies]]'' was able to save her friends from a deadly trap on account of the fact she took piano lessons when she was four years old.
* Towards the beginning of the fantasy movie ''The Monkey King'', the main character mentions that he's a champion at his business's racquetball tournaments. Towards the end, he uses a sword like a racket to [[Playing Tennis With the Boss|knock back the Big Bad's energy blasts]].
* A borderline case from ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'': Mui, the bun store girl, uses ''tai chi'' to knead and spin dough. She later uses these skills {{spoiler|to help Team Shaolin at the soccer finals.}}
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* "Ground Rice" from The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. As he says, all his life he's ground rice using a simple machine operated with the legs, so his legs are incredibly powerful.
* [[Conan the Barbarian]] became so strong because in his youth, he was a slave who did some [[Wheel of Pain|really heavy work]].
** That's the movie. In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s stories, he was enslaved only after he was as strong as he was.
* In both ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' and the [[Sword of Truth|original books]], Richard's skills as a woods guide come in handy quite often, considering how often he and his party find themselves wandering through one sort of wilderness or another.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time|Perrin]]'' is made extremely strong due to being an apprentice blacksmith. And also gets his alternate [[Drop the Hammer|weapon]] from it.
** The same applies for [[Belgariad|Durnik]].
* ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'': Nicko Heap during his work on Jannit Maarten's boatyard picks up some impressive strenght that plays a minor role in the ''Syren'' plot.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Nikki was able to knock out a bad guy using a roundhouse kick on account of her work as a pole dancer.
* Jay and Grant from ''[[Ghost Hunters]]'' often use the same skills they use from their plumbing day jobs in order to debunk and solve alleged hauntings.
* In the 2nd episode of ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'', Buck Compton throws a grenade at a fleeing German soldier, which hits him in the back and explodes. Buck was the star catcher for UCLA's baseball team so this kind of feat under pressure was probably natural for him. Inverted in the same episode, however, as he tries to throw another grenade, gets bumped, and drops it amongst his own men causing momentary panic.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Donna Noble, Super Temp.
* [[Chuck]] frequently uses his IT skills gained at the Buy More either on missions or as cover.
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** In the second ''[[Trauma Center]]'' game Stiles uses his surgical knowledge and tools to dismantle a computer operated door.
* One of the books that can be found in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series tells the story of a young man who was able to learn the skills he needed to become an [[Ax Crazy|axe wielding]] [[Psycho for Hire|assassin]] through the chores he was put through while growing up on a farm by an [[Evil Uncle]] (his first [[Asshole Victim|victim]]). You can read [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Axe_Man The Axe Man here] courtesy of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages.
** That story also illustrates, almost perfectly, how many Lost in ''[[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]]'' have "benefitted" from their durance.
* Link works as a goatherder in Ordon Village in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''. His goat-wrangling skills, demonstrated in the early parts of the game, come in handy later -- first to get past the Gorons guarding the trail to Death Mountain, and {{spoiler|in the endgame to wrangle Ganondorf's beast form}}.
** Taken to an even more direct extreme in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'', where Link is conveniently trained to be a railroad conductor -- the only job that will allow him to travel around New Hyrule as needed to complete the adventure.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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