The skill you learned for one thing will surprise you somewhere else. Old tricks in new places look like genius.

Skills do not stay in the place you learned them. Editing video teaches a sense of pacing that shows up in how you tell a story out loud. Working a till teaches you to read a face fast, which turns out to matter on stage. The transfer is invisible while it happens and obvious afterwards, which is why unusual combinations of experience end up looking like a gift.

List three things you can do that have nothing to do with your main interest. Ask which parts of each could apply to it directly. Then use one of them somewhere it does not belong and see whether it holds.