YOU NEED SKILLS NOT A JOB

WHY YOU NEED A SKILL IN 2020 TO MAKE MORE MONEY! 

After studying for four years at the university, severed my nation (NYSC) for a year. 5 years down the line I don't have a job. In a year, I applied for more than 50 jobs none I ever got. Now covid 19 has made jobs & work unavailable but I still survive. I still have something to live for and something to do.

You want to know how?  

Maybe it's not the job. 

Maybe it's the skills you lack. 

Maybe it's the job. 

If it's the job, you can change it. 

However, in the 21st century business world, people are now making more money from skills than jobs. And due to this, jobs are now including what they call "JOB SKILLS" to their requirements. 

The more skillful you are at your job, the more likely you're to earn more money for yourself. 

What is a skill in the first place? 

In simple terms, skill is the ability to do something well, You can be skillful at anything you put your mind on even if you're not good at it in the first place. You need relevant knowledge to be skillful. Skill is very important in the life of every human being. The reason why many technicians earns more than some university graduates is because the technicians acquire more practical skills than the theories, unlike the graduates who were fed with theoretical experiences while in the universities. A skill can take you to places you do not expect you will find yourself. 

Irrespective of how much you're currently making at your job, you need a skill. You need to find something and be good at it outside going to work from 9am to 5pm. 

There are different skills out there that are paying well. 

Looked at some of the top marketable skills in the 21st century:  

Consultancy, public speaking, online marketing, coding and programming, writing, entertainment, recycling, statistical analysis and data mining, fashion, baking, furniture making, livestock, agriculture/farming, fishery, blogging, graphic designing and a whole lot of them. 

You need to learn one or more skills outside your job! 

Today, there are many unemployed graduates in the country. This is partly as a result of our long system of education that is more of grammar and not much practical learning.  It is evident that the highest number of unemployed is found in the African Continent. The truth remains that the major causes of the unemployment among our vibrant youths is lack of skill to back up what we have learnt from our various institutions of learning. When we graduates were still in school, we did not border to learn at least one single skills, maybe that which is related to graphic designing, typing, hair dressing, electrical maintenance and others. If we have learnt any skill at all, the rate of unemployment will reduce drastically among us.

WHAT CAN A SKILL DO TO YOU

Here are 10 things a skill can do to you

1) Make you more productive

2) Increase your income by 20% and even more. 

3) Serve as a side hustle, and a safe landing after retirement. 

4) Empower you to access business grants, own your own business, and expand it! 

5) Connect you to people and help you build relationships and gain opportunities you will never had access to while on job. 

6) Helps you to become financially free and stable. 

7) Make you become an expert at a thing and attract others to what you do and also provides you an opportunity to train them and make more money. 

8) Helps you develop your self on what you're most passionate about. Studies shows that over 80% of people hate their jobs. They just do it for the pay. 

9) Challenges you to be mentally engaged and draw to yourself different sources of income. The average millionaire has 7 sources of income and all those are drawn from skills outside his job. 

10) Makes you influential and sort after. 

The year is half way gone, you can make a decision to learn one or two skills and be very good at it. This skill can be a life safer. 

Imagine the tons of graduate our universities are churning out with no jobs to absorb them, or imagine the number of people going to jobs that frustrate them, or is it the number of retiree that keep going to the pension board for their pensions and have nothing to fall back to? 

To encourage others, just share the link with friends. Someone will take a step because he or she saw this post on your timeline. Be a blessing by sharing. 

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