I had question for @Josh @thinkaboutthebible and others that what jobs I can do with a trained memory ?
How my trained memory will help me in a bank job ( teller or clerk ) ?
Is there any job that needs only trained memory ?
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@gyanamathsir, unfortunately having just a trained memory won’t get you very far because as @josh and I both know, a computer is a much more reliable memory that is trainable and scalable beyond human abilities.
Now, what kind of jobs can you do better with a great memory? Well, you have to pair it up with another interest or ability and stay away from where computers have built inroads. Banks are definitely not a place to work. They rely on computers for accuracy.
I thought of two and may have more later but as I’ve seen on the forum, the suggestion to be a waiter is a good one, one that relies on remembering orders and especially people. You would have to know hospitality and like food for that one.
The other job position could be a tour guide where hundreds of facts would be useful to know as you take tourists around and amaze them with interesting stories. You would have to be a good speaker and have authority for that one.
If I come up with any more I’ll let you know.
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I’m not sure. It sounded like bank teller jobs in India are very different from the US. I don’t know what the job is like here, but I don’t think it requires any specialized knowledge.
Related: What are some of the best paying jobs you can get with having an excelent memory - #2 by Josh
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With apologies for answering a question with a question, I would recommend that you also ask the following questions:
“In which companies or industries do people struggle to manage their information?”
Or, similarly:
“In which companies are teams or whole departments underperforming because they are overwhelmed or confused by information.”
If you focus on listing such companies, I believe you will find that there remains some critical problem with information handling that hasn’t been solved yet (at least within the particular company)–but possibly could be solved by somebody with strong memory skills.
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A trained memory is like other said not much worth.
For example this situation:
A guy that learned everything about a video game.
So he has a good trained memory for this game.
He is not able to do a good bank job with this knowledge.
But now he trains to get better with names and faces ( social interaction part of the job ), alphabet and numbers ( account numbers and/or contract numbers for example ).
Now he is not only a teller in the bank, but he is THE teller that knows my name and so gives me a better service as other teller.
Ask yourself what kind of trained memory You need to get better for a wished job.
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@gyanamathsir
Just learn and feel hunger or desire to learn more and more.
When I face a certain different situations, difficulties that I don’t see regularly. when I come up with a crazy ideas on the spot that’s what I call trained memory.
The things you learn just now for example memory techniques, try to utilise them. when you are in need for it. Try to use it somehow.
well, I still have a long way to go. So I am in no place to suggest anyone regarding this matter. 
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Some private banks require PGDBF ( Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance ).
While some public sector banks need only graduation ( B.Sc, B.A or BCom )
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All the jobs you can also do without a trained memory… it’s really not a hindrance 
I dunno… people here seem to think too much about remembering hard facts.
Or simply use those skills being a management consultant because it pays just a little better than the above part time jobs whilst in college. Come on… the two obvious ones are:
- Names and faces
- Presentations / speeches
add to that various frameworks that consultants apply (which can be memorized) and there you go. But hey, the first two are standard in any job, be it internal or external communication.
Ultimately though, this is no different from asking… what jobs can I do, if I can run really fast. You know what I’m saying…
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I would like to add “where tools or technology do not offer a favorable outcome”, and you will see that the list shrinks massively. The company or industry might just be struggling because they have not updated their systems.
This I want to second. With all the technological advantages we have nowadays, our work-environment is practically a brain prothesis. The tech will take care of the work, so your brain can focus on breathing and funny cat videos.
That is the education part of the job. You might require a decent memory for that, but you mainly need to be able to apply the knowledge you gain.
Now, lets get back to the primary question.
I would argue that most jobs decently rely on memory. As a fireman you will need to know that if there is a fire in an enclosed space, you need to break a window first before you go in to prevent your eyebrows from fleeing the scene. As an EMT you need to remember that you have to treat massive bleeding before you take a look at the heart, lungs and brain. The thing is that all of these things are specific memories, not per se the ability to memorize, which is what I think you meant. In which case the answer is none, unless you go back to living in 500AD, or survive a nuclear winter, or if you want to prevent being raided by the FBI because you possibly have very classified information in your house.
That being said, memory can fulfill a secondary role in many jobs, even a bank teller. One example that I encounter a lot is remembering people’s names. It is not a primary need for my job, and it is easy to look a name up, but if you can remember people’s names you will have a great advantage when it comes to relations with the public you encounter.
Then there is what they tell. Things about their lives, their views, and about what their hopes are for your work relations. @Rajadodve786 mentioned some solving of problems, but this also ties in here. An example, I meet a lot of managers and company owners in my line of work, and at one point I met one who was all about looking at the masses rather than the individual. He would do good in things like warehouses where you need hands rather than skills. We were hiring at some point, and he was on the list. So in our talk I decided to ask on to get more in depth about his views on management, which helped to eventually determine that he was not the right person for our position.
Doing this on the spot also ties in with jobs like a waiter, as mentioned by @thinkaboutthebible in his post. Some years ago I went out for dinner with work, and we were about 50 people strong. One man came to take all our orders, and when they came out, he directed other waiters towards who had a specific order. This guy got a good tip (and I learned he also used memory palaces for this! yay!)
In the end, computers can and will outdo you on memory in the primary functions of any job. So you will need to look for uses in secondary functions.
Mailman. Specifically mailman in a neighbourhood with a lot of dogs.
(that’s a joke, I get your point, as I often use the exact same example 
)
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Fair point
I see what you did there…
Let’s get back to soft skills for a second. Say you work in Sales or Accounting or whatever and you have a meeting with procurement… let’s say they buy space on airline carriers (maybe a logistics company).
Since every department likes to identify as a team an thus has a tendency to speak its own language, they might be referring to the airline carriers by their IATA numerical codes rather than saying Lufthansa, KLM, or Air France and instead refer to them as 020, 074, and 057 respectively as a shorthand. (Not a made up example by the way.)
So, what you do is get yourself that list of codes… memorize your top 20 carriers; and where everyone else gets lost, you can still follow and even join the conversation. Ditto for airport codes, when maybe most people still know JFK and LAX to be New York and L.A., it’s a different story when you get to ORD and CVG… unless you knew without looking it up, that this is Chicago and Cincinnati.
So, intra-department no, but inter-department… there will be benefits.
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My personal experience is that you rarely need that though. Usually the representative for the airline speaks the language of the customer, rather than the other way around. But I do get where you are coming from, and some companies are more into speaking their own language than others, usually deliberately.
I did find that an understanding like the ones you mentioned is pretty useful reactively, rather than proactively. Especially nototious are certain repair and IT companies. I too had it happen that a car repair company tried to lie to me about how often certain things need to be replaced. Yay memory though, but it scares me ro know that many people don’t know enough to go against their cheat. At work, whenever we have any IT project that requires an outside company, one of our own IT guys is present to “translate”. Sure I might understand what the company says and catch them if they try to BS me, but my IT guy will have the experience to not only do that (and better), but also to assist in improving the ideas, solutions and methods discussed.
In the USA, an example for a car company that seems to fit into what I described is Economy Lube. CBC marketplace has a 20 minute short on their investigation to them on youtube. I find the tricks they use psychologically pretty interesting, â– â– â– â– â– â– as the scams may be.
Scams in general are pretty interesting to view from a memory POV. Just look at the currency exchange scams for example.
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Every time I see some unethical behavior anecdote I ask myself the question “Was money involved?”. 98% of the time the answer is yes.
Money trumps ethics for the default person. Until you have seen someone lose money to maintain integrity it is worthwhile to remain cynical in any type of decision that involves money.
“Is there any money involved?” explains so much human behavior. Countless anecdotes of families split by inheritances much less just friends. Don’t test your friends because you likely will be shocked by otherwise seemingly amazingly ethical people when push comes to shove and they are going to either make a lot or lose a lot of money.
This is jaded I know but just accumulated from asking myself “Was any money involved?” many times over the past 10 years since my startup company failed and I began my journey towards becoming jaded around money.
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It’s not so much a job per se, but one thing that has skyrocketed is sometimes I memorize our weekly safety topics, so I come off as an expert
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yeah, I guess he was not right person for your position. maybe he is good in another field. 
@determinedchemistry, I also like some job that would include being a nature expert where you identify plants, animals, or birds when they appear and a computer isn’t much help because the input takes so much time. Park tours, tree services, tourist guides, mushroom hunting, etc.
A similar type of profession might be using native plants and trees as an herbalist for medicinal purposes and food which recently came up in the forum. I’ve studied homeopathy and Chinese medicine which require more than a knowledge of how to look the name up but the ability to form a herbal personality around the plants.
Another type of job I helped someone with was a masseur/masseuse who needed to memorize all the muscles and movements of multiple animals, create a profile of pain and stiffness in his memory, and then transfer the measurements to a final diagnosis and treatment plan. Of course, any medical field is rife with possibilities because of the information that should be understood.
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Anything where you have to memorize. You must understand that despite technological advances, mnemonics HAVE TO BE IN YOUR LIFE. You can learn the skill of memorization and incorporate it into your life, thereby improving your quality of life.
Yes, not everyone will need mnemonics, but it will still help in learning and working with information. It all depends on the person himself, his goals and ambitions.