The world is getting more cutthroat every day.
Competition is growing, jobs are shrinking, and AI is replacing us inferior humans.
To not fall behind, you need to learn high income skills.
Today I'll be covering six that can earn you more money, give you more freedom and make you irreplaceable by AI.
Instead of being terminated, you'll be the terminator.
Let's dive in.
The first skill is AI.
It's pretty obvious.
To not be replaced by AI, you should learn AI.
But everyone says that.
What does that actually mean?
AI is vast.
There's so much that it can do, yet most people don't know all the things that it can do.
Besides the common chat, GPT and AI Arc, there are many other AI tools out there that are just as useful and mind-blowing.
The first step to learning AI is to simply be aware of what it's capable of right now.
Explore all the AI tools currently available and their use cases.
Read some articles, watch some videos.
It'll put you one step ahead of everyone else, because you'll be able to recognize what AI is actually replacing and what it isn't and, most importantly, spot opportunities to use AI to your benefit and make money.
Which leads us to the second step of learning AI, learning the AI tools themselves.
It'll allow you to put AI into action and give you an edge over others.
But here's my hot take.
Don't invest too much time mastering any AI tool right now because it's kind of pointless.
But didn't I just say, let me explain.
This was what AI video tools could generate one year ago.
Now imagine back then that you decided to spend hours figuring out the best prompts and settings to get a slightly less messed up Will Smith.
Fast forward to today and well, this is what AI video tools can generate with less difficulty too.
I'm pretty sure most of the tips and tricks you learned for Will Smith are now outdated.
Right now, we're just at the beginning of the AI revolution.
Every day.
AI tools are advancing so fast that most of the AI tools we know now will soon be outdated in ways that we can't even comprehend.
For example, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang which, side note, has the same first name as me.
That's kind of cool has said that kids should not learn to code because AI will do it for us in the future.
It seems crazy, but we also got a catchy AI Drake diss track recently, so at this point anything is possible.
So for now, feel free to learn only what you need to learn when you need to learn it.
As AI technology matures and becomes a bit more stable, that's when I'd consider truly mastering AI tools and learning the ins and outs of them.
I will say though, if there's one AI tool that I think has developed enough to be worthwhile to dive deep into it's ChatGPT.
It's the most popular one for a reason.
If you want to unlock its full potential, I've linked in the description a free bundle of ChatGPT resources that you should check out.
It includes a flow chart that lets you know when it's best to use ChatGPT, a step-by-step guide to integrating it into your workflow, a prompt template that helps it right in your brand voice, a checklist to follow to get the best results.
And an ebook covering creative ways to use ChatGPT and 100 prompts to try.
I particularly like Prompt88.
Who should I subscribe to?
Oh, the AI said it!
This bundle was made by HubSpot, which is today's video sponsor.
A big thanks to them for these free resources.
Skill two, marketing.
I studied marketing back in university and I'm remembering it being looked down upon by my classmates.
Marketing was seen as a worthless and low income skill compared to other skills like finance and accounting.
Having since graduated and gone to work in the real world, I've realized that view is just plain wrong.
Marketing is, without a doubt, one of the most valuable and high-income skills that one can have today, and has made me much more money than I was led to believe.
You see, we live in an attention economy.
Everyone and everything is fighting to grab your attention, especially businesses.
It's not enough to just have a good product or service anymore.
Businesses constantly need to find ways to stand out because those who do win.
That's where marketing comes in.
It's the skill of promoting a product or service, and it's in heavy demand.
Every year, businesses are investing more into marketing, such as content marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing and more.
Having marketing skills can open you to working in these growing fields.
As AI grows bigger, marketing skills will also become more valuable, because it's a human-oriented skill.
Marketing deals with humans and humans are weird as hell.
We're unpredictable.
We get bored easily.
Our imperfections will keep marketing skills in demand and irreplaceable by AI, as products and services will always need new human ways to attract our ADHD brains.
Even outside of marketing jobs, The skill is extremely useful to have.
These days, it's more important than ever to have a personal brand.
If you think about it, every person is essentially their own business.
If you want to be known in your industry, be considered by employers or grow a social media following, you need to market yourself well and shape how others see and think of you.
Now, where marketing skills really pays off and can bring you the big bucks is through entrepreneurship.
When it comes down to it, a lot of entrepreneurship is basically just marketing.
Running a business involves building a brand, analyzing data, identifying niches, designing products and attracting customers.
All of those fall under marketing.
When you pair marketing skills with entrepreneurship, you're not only promoting a business, you're promoting your business and you get to reap all the rewards and profits that come with it.
This is how I primarily leverage my marketing skills.
So how do you learn marketing?
You could go to school for it, but honestly, the best way to learn is by doing it.
Start off with your personal brand as your first project and gradually expand your knowledge from there.
On your journey, you might also pick up skill three, sales.
Now, sales can seem the same as marketing.
Both are related to selling products and services.
However, there's a slight difference between the two.
Simply put, marketing is building awareness, while sales is closing the deal.
It's the process of finding leads, pitching and negotiating, handling objections and ultimately, securing the bag.
Many sales jobs offer high salaries in the six figures, specifically those in the tech, financial services industrial, medical and pharmaceutical industries.
A lot of these jobs are also tied to commission.
The more you sell, the more you make.
So there's a lot of money in sales if you're good.
Just like marketing, sales is a transferable skill that can be used in other fields.
In fact, I would say it's one of the most transferable skills because, if you think about it, we're all selling things all the time.
Every day, we sell to others our ideas and opinions.
We sell to others our worth for a job, for a raise, for a cute girl's number.
For entrepreneurs.
Sales skills are needed not only to sell a company's value to customers, but also to employees and investors.
At its core, sales is about building trust with people and addressing their needs.
It's not just a business skill, it's a life skill.
Because of how human-oriented it is as well, it's going to be tough for AI to replace.
If you want to learn sales, put yourself in situations where you sell something directly to someone else.
This could be through a simple retail job, professional sales job, or even volunteering.
Girl Scout cookies, yo.
That's a pro sales training academy right there.
My first job ever was selling painting services door to door and I still use the skills I learned from it to this day.
Go knock some doors and learn some sales.
Skill four, communication.
If sales is one of the most transferable skills, communication is, in my opinion, the most transferable skill.
Almost everything involves some form of communication.
The reality is that, with the world living more and more behind screens, fewer people are developing strong communication skills.
It's kind of sad to be honest, but it presents an opportunity.
Those who do learn how to communicate well will stand out.
There are two types of communication, writing and speaking.
Starting off with writing.
It's an essential skill to have and can lead to work in copywriting and freelance writing.
The thing about writing though is that AI has a grip on it.
Tools like ChatGPT are making writing real easy for everyone.
Just ask the high school kids in English class.
I don't think AI will replace writing entirely, but it might make writing skills less valued in the future, at least in terms of the technical aspect.
Which brings us to the second type of communication, speaking.
While AI voices are sounding crazy realistic these days, I believe it's less likely that AI will directly replace our voices, unless you're like Stephen Hawking or something.
So I'd say it's worth investing in.
When it comes to making money from speaking, it's not like other skills.
You don't really sell speaking, except if you're a voice actor, ASMR streamer.
Most of the time, money from speaking is made indirectly.
Think of the most successful people out there.
One thing that they all likely do is speak.
A lot.
Whether they like it or not.
Why?
Because speaking is a great tool to influence and connect with others.
It's not the act of speaking itself that makes money, but what it can make someone do.
Buy a product, invest in a company, become a loyal customer.
You can change the world with the right speech.
To learn how to speak well, it's all about practice.
You gotta yap a lot.
And if you think being shy or an introvert means you can't be good at speaking, think again.
I used to be very shy and introverted.
Still am sometimes.
The first time I spoke in front of my class in grade 3, I was terrified, but I gradually learned how to control my voice, my body language, my delivery.
The key to good speaking is not necessarily what you say, but how you say it.
The motions behind the words.
With the right pitch, tone and volume, you could be speaking absolute gibberish and still sound like you're saying something important.
You dig?
Skill five, content creation.
Content creation is the language of the internet.
If you can speak it, there's a lot that you can gain from it.
You may have already heard around town how much money influencers can make, a lot.
But let's say you don't wanna be an influencer.
Is it still worth learning content creation?
Yeah, here's why.
The creator economy is currently valued at 250 billion and is expected to reach 480 billion by 2028.
While a bunch of that money is going to influencers, a bunch of that money is also going to those who support influencers their teams.
Here are several services that influencers hire and pay for.
Having content creation skills will allow you to offer these services and get a piece of the pie in the creator economy without being an influencer yourself.
Outside the creator economy, content creation skills are super helpful to have as well.
You can offer the same services to businesses for their marketing, website, products, or training.
If you're an entrepreneur, content creation can literally make your business.
You can transform your brand and bring in customers.
All the resources you need to learn content creation can be found on Google and YouTube.
I personally never went to any school to learn how to make videos or write scripts or use Photoshop.
With AI tools nowadays as well, it's easier than ever to get started.
AI isn't replacing content creators. it's making them better.
Skill six, management.
I'll admit, this skill sounds kind of broad.
Like, what is management?
But to ignore this skill would be a huge mistake, because those who are good at management are some of the richest people in the world.
Management is the process of organizing and coordinating people and resources to achieve a goal.
In business involves planning, leading teams, making decisions and ensuring everything runs smoothly.
The management skill is really a set of skills, but it's those skills used together that forms management.
It's a hard skill to master, one even AI has trouble with, but it's probably why it pays well.
The highest paid role in most companies is typically the CEO and their job is to manage the company.
If you plan to be a CEO or executive, whether for your own company or someone else's, management skills are essential to have.
We also can't forget the managers under the top managers, project managers, product managers, operation managers.
These are all usually high income jobs as well that you can get by having management skills.
So how do you learn management?
It's a skill you can't really acquire by reading a book or anything like that.
You need to get yourself into leadership positions, positions where you have to deal with many things at once.
This might mean leading a project at work, running a school club, playing in a team sport or being a gaming clan leader.
No joke, that was my earliest experience learning how to manage people.
Calm at arms, baby.
And there are your six high income skills.
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