When I first started in business 25 years ago, I was a computer consultant. Now I am sure that it will not surprise you to know that I was not your standard computer consultant but that is a story for another day. Let's just say that my area of expertise was computers. However, because the bulk of work in computers came from the offshore finance industry that was very big at the time (unofficially 90% of our economy at the time), I had learned accountancy so that I could write accounting programs. Then I discovered that people were interested in my accounting expertise so I started offering that to my clients in addition to the computer expertise. Then, as I had a business, I had to deal with the Income Tax Department. As Tax Accountants were fabulously expensive, I decided to learn the Tax Law and do my own taxes. When other people found out about this, they were very interested. It got to the point very quickly where I would be lucky if 10% of my income came from my computer expertise. If I had just stuck to computers, my business would have been a fraction of the size. So when I come across a problem -something broken - which I needed to solve, I have learned to ask "How many other people have this problem and what would they be willing to pay to have it solved?"
So,
what does that have to do with you?
Well,
if you want more money than you currently earn, try asking yourself
"What skills do I have that others would be happy to pay me to
use?"
You
may be surprised at the gold nuggets you've been walking by for all
of this time
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