It's tempting to lie, but if a new employer ever asked you to use any of those fake skills, like producing a video or speaking Danish, you're suddenly in very hot water.
A loss, I believe, that you have never acknowledged and that cripples you into feeling powerless and panicked at the thought of another pregnancy and another child.
Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there were no tomorrow.
The killing of birds of prey by wind turbines has pitted environmentalists who champion wildlife protection against environmentalists who promote renewable wind energy.
Many projects seriously in trouble are also cancelled at a fairly late stage, thus having incurred significant economic loss as well as lost opportunity costs.
Sceptics about the value of big mergers often turn out to be right: promised synergies never materialise and managers get sucked into the tedium of integrating IT systems and the like.