This is inspired by this article I read on 10 jobs that pay 6 figures working remotely:
Now, I totally understand that most of these may not suit you but it reinforced in me the belief that anyone can achieve those kind of figures provided they are prepared to put in the work…
And sometimes that work involves gaining new skills. No, not the sort of skills you supposedly get from the latest Bright Shiny Course on some fly by night method but real skills. Marketable ones.
Yes, an unfashionable view but it’s the path I have always taken – equipping myself with skills when I needed to in order to add to my portfolio of multiple streams of income.
I would like you to have the same so that you always have a way to bring in whatever you need when necessary. So, with that in mind, I am going to share with you some resources and ideas on how you can do that.
Let’s start with this excellent case study on how to make six figures a year from Upwork, the freelancer’s dream site (when you know how to work it right):
https://medium.com/@tylerhorvath/how-to-make-six-figures-a-year-with-upwork-2327a7d272af
There is also a good selection here:
https://www.workingmother.com/work-from-home-jobs-that-make-six-figures
Now that you have some ideas on how to get that moolah rolling in, let’s break it down into different skills you can acquire or polish.
Even if you don’t want to freelance, all of these skills will come in handy with product and site creation, marketing, SEO, content creation etc etc
You will have noticed that coding and programming are right up there as highly in demand skills…and you probably thought ‘nope, not me.’ Well, you might change your mind when you try this no cost Udemy course for coding beginners:
https://www.udemy.com/coding-for-entrepreneurs-basic/
And if you get bitten by the coding bug, you can deepend your knowledge and marketability with one of this excellent selection of (again, no cost) courses:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/250323
You’ll have noticed there is also a big demand for people who can produce content that is SEO friendly…fortunately, there is also a great Udemy course to teach you how to do just that:
https://www.udemy.com/content-writing/
Cyber security is another hugely in demand skill and you can learn a lot here for nada:
https://www.edx.org/learn/cybersecurity
SEO is another great skill to have under your belt and you can acquire it here:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/learn-seo/
And here:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-101/best-seo-resources/
Photoshop is also a wonderful skill to have as you can apply it all kinds of marketable areas. Here are 14 places you can learn all you need to know:
https://medium.com/the-mission/14-websites-where-you-can-learn-photoshop-for-free-edc82b5b4636
Adobe InDesign is another excellent skill to acquire and you can do that here along with a host of other skills – you can have a one month trial for nada for premium classes:
https://www.skillshare.com/browse/adobe-indesign
To give you his brilliant insights into learning and the three principles the human mind needs to flourish, here’s Ken Robinson with your TED talk:
