Skills -Dictionaries define a Skill as the ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance.
What this means is, having knowledge to accomplish a given duty well is a tool to career success.
Ideally, everyone needs a skill or two to compete in the ever-changing job market and to earn either self employed or through employment.
Career coach will tell you the importance of taking a course to help you earn a livelihood. A skill is your tool of trade. It is your jembe or slasher. Once you have it, you can then learn slowly how to monetize.
Remember, acquiring a skill is not just enough, the journey does not end at having a skill. It, infact, starts there. After you have a skill at your fingertips, embark on its monetisation journey. Monetisation is turning the skill into an enterprise to earn you money. A skill without revenue is an empty shell.
Some of the skills are found in college, books, online and from friends. Everywhere and everything can become resourceful to turn you into a skilled millionaire.
In fact, arming yourself with a skill can lead to an invention. Inventors are the richest people on earth and that is why the first question one asks millionaires whenever they meet is, “what have you invented to become this rich?”
It is from their respective skills that they could be able to create giant tech companies like Facebook, Twitter now X, Instagram, Tik tok etc.
Other guys who created money-minting platforms are owners of Microsoft Inc., Google search engine etc. They now earn while sleeping!
Learn a skill or two from YouTube. You can choose to become a blogger and create a popular site that could start generating you millions of money or you can also decide to learn website development.
Others can opt to become YouTubers while some creative designers. Anything done well and professionally can become huge. Just consider your natural passion or the market trends and create something for yourself.
And remember that there has never been best time to start than now. Use the little resources you have to learn something new. YouTube lessons are visual and almost free as long as you have a few internet bundles.
