Having no marketable skills?

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I have no marketable skills but I'll learn any skills I need to find a job. What are "marketable skills"?

Anything useful. I mean productive activities. Either productive or the ability to repair things.
Get good at fixing furniture, electrical-problems, plumbing, house-construction, etc.
Knowing how to fix a variety of housing problems will take you a very long way at the moment.

A marketable skill is anything you can get payed for using, anything you can do better than the average person.

You might have a better attention to detail, perhaps you can focus on one thing for hours on end, maybe you can bend google to your will to find whatever you are searching as the first non-ad result.

All of the above are marketable skills, and that is just from the top of my head (more specifically, they are my own primary skills)

I have no clue what my marketable skills are

How do I find it?

Think about what you can do, what do you do better than most people?
If your parents/friends/neighbours come to you for help, what sort of help do they usually ask for?
If you are often asked to help with one type of thing ('fix my computer', 'repair my car', 'proofread this text'); than that type of thing is one of your marketable skills (it support, (car)mechanics and quality assurance respectively, for these examples).

If you cant think of any, you might be able to learn easily; that is not a marketable skill in itself, but you can use it to gain a skill

These days, simply being able to quickly teach someone how to work their computer or phone works counts as a marketable skill.

sure sure, being a quick learner and stuff.........but i find people relations and communication more essential...that's why i always fail