Learning a skill and making fast money

[Sebzmaniac]

I'm re-reading TMF and I recently read the chapter about oil change and that information is freely available and should not come loaded with conformity or parasitic debt.

I want to learn a skill from an inexpensive resource that will make me money and I'm currently struggling.

People in this forum that have learned a skill and made money from it, please refer me to a link where you learned your skill from.

I'm really broke and I live in a third world country. So these resources should please be free or not be more than $10 or higher than $20. I would really prefer free resources.

And also, I don't really like tech skills or digital skills. They seem kind of hard. I'm looking for soft skills. But you can still recommend the tech or digital skills if you know any.

Lastly, pls don't recommend web development or anything related to programming. I started it last year but I now dislike it.


Thank you.

 

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[Subsonic]

I'm re-reading TMF and I recently read the chapter about oil change and that information is freely available and should not come loaded with conformity or parasitic debt.

I want to learn a skill from an inexpensive resource that will make me money and I'm currently struggling.

People in this forum that have learned a skill and made money from it, please refer me to a link where you learned your skill from.

I'm really broke and I live in a third world country. So these resources should please be free or not be more than $10 or higher than $20. I would really prefer free resources.

And also, I don't really like tech skills or digital skills. They seem kind of hard. I'm looking for soft skills. But you can still recommend the tech or digital skills if you know any.

Lastly, pls don't recommend web development or anything related to programming. I started it last year but I now dislike it.


Thank you.

Well, if you live in a 3rd world country, tech Skills are basically your only hope of making decent money. If you were in the US, I would tell you to go clean windows. That doesn't work in poor countries, though.
Firstly, Web design is different from development since you can do it using tools that don't require code. So you might want to try that.
If that is (somehow) still too technical for you, go for selling. Many people earn money as remote closers. There are many free videos on there on becoming a remote, high ticket closer. Used to be all the hype, but is kinda underground right now. That is the only soft skill I can think of that will help you out.

 

[Black_Dragon43]

I'm re-reading TMF and I recently read the chapter about oil change and that information is freely available and should not come loaded with conformity or parasitic debt.

I want to learn a skill from an inexpensive resource that will make me money and I'm currently struggling.

People in this forum that have learned a skill and made money from it, please refer me to a link where you learned your skill from.

I'm really broke and I live in a third world country. So these resources should please be free or not be more than $10 or higher than $20. I would really prefer free resources.

And also, I don't really like tech skills or digital skills. They seem kind of hard. I'm looking for soft skills. But you can still recommend the tech or digital skills if you know any.

Lastly, pls don't recommend web development or anything related to programming. I started it last year but I now dislike it.


Thank you.

What are your strengths? Can't recommend you anything if you've got no idea what you're good at.

A skill is primarily learned by practicing. You seem to be someone who has massive attitude problems and limiting beliefs about money ("give it to me cheap baby, even for free if possible!") not to mention about work (laziness). Until you fix that, most things aren't likely to help.

 

[theazizmoh_]

I'm re-reading TMF and I recently read the chapter about oil change and that information is freely available and should not come loaded with conformity or parasitic debt.

I want to learn a skill from an inexpensive resource that will make me money and I'm currently struggling.

People in this forum that have learned a skill and made money from it, please refer me to a link where you learned your skill from.

I'm really broke and I live in a third world country. So these resources should please be free or not be more than $10 or higher than $20. I would really prefer free resources.

And also, I don't really like tech skills or digital skills. They seem kind of hard. I'm looking for soft skills. But you can still recommend the tech or digital skills if you know any.

Lastly, pls don't recommend web development or anything related to programming. I started it last year but I now dislike it.


Thank you.

Bro, there's many no-code tools out there, like bubble.io, webflow, zapier, and much more

These tools doesn't require much coding skills

Go and make your research.

 

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[Stargazer]

Well as you brought it up, how about car oil change?

That's simple to learn and people pay for it.

Or car tyre places. Car tyres always need replacing at some point.

Whichever third world country you live in, car ownership is going to increase, that's a fact.

There is an independent tyre place near me and all it does is replace tyres, batteries and oil. Nothing else. Everyone asks them if they plan on fixing cars or MOTs etc etc but he just wants to do things he can train someone to do with in an hour.

They're always busy because they do a good job at lower price than franchised garages that offer more services and therefore have higher inventory and staffing costs etc.

So rhere you go.

Dan

 

[Sebzmaniac]

Well, if you live in a 3rd world country, tech Skills are basically your only hope of making decent money. If you were in the US, I would tell you to go clean windows. That doesn't work in poor countries, though.
Firstly, Web design is different from development since you can do it using tools that don't require code. So you might want to try that.
If that is (somehow) still too technical for you, go for selling. Many people earn money as remote closers. There are many free videos on there on becoming a remote, high ticket closer. Used to be all the hype, but is kinda underground right now. That is the only soft skill I can think of that will help you out.

I know the difference between web design and web development. I don't also like web design

What is this "remote closing" or selling? I've never heard of it before. Do you have any resource I can learn it from?

 

[Sebzmaniac]

What are your strengths? Can't recommend you anything if you've got no idea what you're good at.

A skill is primarily learned by practicing. You seem to be someone who has massive attitude problems and limiting beliefs about money ("give it to me cheap baby, even for free if possible!") not to mention about work (laziness). Until you fix that, most things aren't likely to help.

I don't know my strengths or what I'm good at. I'm still searching.

I'm willing to change my beliefs about money, and I'm also willing to put in some work. What can I do?

 

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[Sebzmaniac]

Bro, there's many no-code tools out there, like bubble.io, webflow, zapier, and much more

These tools doesn't require much coding skills

Go and make your research.

I know about but bubble, and I wanted to get into it before, but I stopped because it seemed a little complicated

It's kind of techy. Can you recommend anything to me that doesn't have to do with tech? Thanks

 

[Sebzmaniac]

Well as you brought it up, how about car oil change?

That's simple to learn and people pay for it.

Or car tyre places. Car tyres always need replacing at some point.

Whichever third world country you live in, car ownership is going to increase, that's a fact.

There is an independent tyre place near me and all it does is replace tyres, batteries and oil. Nothing else. Everyone asks them if they plan on fixing cars or MOTs etc etc but he just wants to do things he can train someone to do with in an hour.

They're always busy because they do a good job at lower price than franchised garages that offer more services and therefore have higher inventory and staffing costs etc.

So rhere you go.

Dan

In my country, people that change tyres don't do very well financially, and the business doesn't scale that much, if not at all

Also, in my country, if you come from a well to do family, like your parents have professional careers and you do something menial as you mentioned, it's kind of a disgrace.

If my parents didn't have professional careers, I would have given it a thought, but unfortunately I can't

So...do you have another skill recommendation? Something less physical and more online?

 

[Sebzmaniac]

Thanks for the answers but what I really wanted was soft skills and /or not too hard online digital skills and links and resources to learn from

 

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[GuestR401x3]

First off money isn't going to come fast in the beginning. Entrepreneurship is hard and if success was guaranteed to anyone who went off and started a business everyone was doing it. That being said you are doing the right things by reading and joining this forum.

Who are the most wealthy people you know? Surround yourself with those types of people and you will learn a lot more than you ever could in a book.

Since you mentioned that you are from a third-world country your best bet is going to be to sell something that the transaction can happen online and you can sell to more wealthy clients. Even though you don't want to do tech work there are still a ton of other opportunities. As mentioned above without knowing you personally I can't tell you what you would be good at or what you would like but here are some ideas I thought of.

• Hand-building products and selling them on Etsy/Ecommerce/Amazon/Ebay etc.
  • Wooden items
  • Leather Items
  • Soap
  • Candles
• If you're near a touristy area leverage this and sell to the tourists.
• Copywriting
• Grow and sell spices

One positive thing about your situation is that your cost of living isn't nearly as high as someone who lives in a first-world country (You'd need $3,700 per month to cover expenses if you lived in New York City).

 

[Sebzmaniac]

First off money isn't going to come fast in the beginning. Entrepreneurship is hard and if success was guaranteed to anyone who went off and started a business everyone was doing it. That being said you are doing the right things by reading and joining this forum.

Who are the most wealthy people you know? Surround yourself with those types of people and you will learn a lot more than you ever could in a book.

Since you mentioned that you are from a third-world country your best bet is going to be to sell something that the transaction can happen online and you can sell to more wealthy clients. Even though you don't want to do tech work there are still a ton of other opportunities. As mentioned above without knowing you personally I can't tell you what you would be good at or what you would like but here are some ideas I thought of.

• Hand-building products and selling them on Etsy/Ecommerce/Amazon/Ebay etc.
  • Wooden items
  • Leather Items
  • Soap
  • Candles
• If you're near a touristy area leverage this and sell to the tourists.
• Copywriting
• Grow and sell spices

One positive thing about your situation is that your cost of living isn't nearly as high as someone who lives in a first-world country (You'd need $3,700 per month to cover expenses if you lived in New York City).

Thanks for the reply. I don't know how to sell products online and I don't know about Amazon or Etsy. I don't like copywriting.

Do you know something else? If you don't, it's okay. Thanks.

 

[GuestR401x3]

Thanks for the reply. I don't know how to sell products online and I don't know about Amazon or Etsy. I don't like copywriting.

Do you know something else? If you don't, it's okay. Thanks.

You're on this forum so you have access to YouTube, that's all you need to learn how to create a product and that's all you need to learn how to list it online. Start with one store (if you're going handmade go with Etsy first) and then build from there. Like I said earlier your best bet is going to sell to first-world countries and to do that you need to learn some of these skills.

 

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[Subsonic]

I know the difference between web design and web development. I don't also like web design

What is this "remote closing" or selling? I've never heard of it before. Do you have any resource I can learn it from?

Yeah, search on YouTube and perhaps take a course on coursera or udemy.

It's being a salesmen on video, mainly for high ticket software or infoproducts.

 

[Oso]

I'm rather surprised no one has put you on blast, tbh. Either this forum is getting weak, or the more successful members of this forum are starting to realize people that come here with this mentality are nearly too far gone.

You're from a 3rd world country. I'm from the US. You know, it's funny, because people will cry all day and all night about how much better off we Americans are, how much of an advantage knowing English is, etc. They're right: all of those things are unfair advantages.

That said, most people from 3rd world countries have a fully ingrained victimhood mentality. We have the same opportunities, just in different capacities. For instance, only in a 3rd world country can you make money doing the most mundane, "requires literally 0 skill" task and make bank. Comparatively speaking, with how greedy and competitive capitalism is, if I don't fully flesh out an idea as much as possible, prior to launching, check my Ps and Qs, etc. there's an ~80%+ chance I'm simply wasting my time.

You said it yourself: there's a dude in your village that does nothing but oil changes and tire rotations. Take a guess as to what my odds of success would be here in the states if I launched something similar. I'd literally get laughed out of the very city I was born and raised in, while my "customers" followed me out of town asking "why the F*ck do you only offer two services when there are 10,000 Jiffy Lubes, Merlins, Discount Tires, etc. within 10 miles of your location?"

Want another example? In my downtime, I've been watching this dude that goes to the most 3rd world, "hot spot," "no-go zones," etc. all over the world. The sheer amount of solvable and scalable problems I see in ONE 10min video is F*cking obnoxious. For instance, Madagascar is a beautiful place... until you see the 10 tons of rubbish in the streets, the health crisis, and the infestations.

It's almost as-if some brave, daring soul has the opportunity to figure out how to not only solve this problem, but make infinite money while doing it, AND MAKE THEIR HOME A BETTER, SAFER PLACE. That sounds like a government contract to me. While I obviously don't know the full details (e.g. maybe they're just another corrupt government that doesn't care, idk) the fact is the opportunity is literally right there, in front of their faces 24/7. All it takes is ONE PERSON to say, "F*ck this, I've had enough."

You're more or less asking the people of this forum to find something that you can do immediately to make money, and then immediately shooting them down when it doesn't fit whatever idea you had/have in mind. This forum is a goldmine of information, potential ideas/paths, etc. if you use it correctly.

Regardless though, it sounds like you have some internal issues to solve before you even consider helping others. If you don't have the strength, resolve, and self-awareness to help yourself, you will more than likely never help anyone else. You're from a 3rd world country, but regardless of which country that exactly is, I'd bet any amount of my shitty, American money that there are infinite problems you see every day that you choose to ignore. Some of these problems may be a bit too large right now (e.g. "let me figure out how to get rid of 10 tons of rubbish), but a LOT of those problems will be solvable by someone in your position (e.g. "oh shit, we only have 1 person doing <thing>. I can beat their quality while matching their price.")

As for recommendations, I have none as you've shot down 99.9% of the recommendations here. So instead, I encourage you to actually go out into the world, write down every little problem you encounter, and then when you're home, filter the list to see if there's any type of potential business. Continue doing this until you've matched an issue you see with a skill or skillset you can learn in the semi near future.

Everyone here will tell you where the pond is, but NO ONE is going to hold your hand while you walk down the path to it.

Cheers.

 

[jclean]

maybe you can start with a less defensive attitude. so working on your people skills will be important to you. think positively, learn to think in possibilities and not in problems.

because this is the BIGGEST REASON you are not moving forward.

the most important skill that I find important if you want to start a business:

learn to communicate with people.
so that you also learn to sell.

which companies do you see a lot where you live? in other words, what is there a great need for in your neighbourhood? is there a way to make this better/faster/cheaper for the customers.

or can you mean something for the companies you often see (wholesale, customer search...)

Only you are in control of your destiny...

 

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[GuestR401x3]

I'm rather surprised no one has put you on blast, tbh. Either this forum is getting weak, or the more successful members of this forum are starting to realize people that come here with this mentality are nearly too far gone.

You're from a 3rd world country. I'm from the US. You know, it's funny, because people will cry all day and all night about how much better off we Americans are, how much of an advantage knowing English is, etc. They're right: all of those things are unfair advantages.

That said, most people from 3rd world countries have a fully ingrained victimhood mentality. We have the same opportunities, just in different capacities. For instance, only in a 3rd world country can you make money doing the most mundane, "requires literally 0 skill" task and make bank. Comparatively speaking, with how greedy and competitive capitalism is, if I don't fully flesh out an idea as much as possible, prior to launching, check my Ps and Qs, etc. there's an ~80%+ chance I'm simply wasting my time.

You said it yourself: there's a dude in your village that does nothing but oil changes and tire rotations. Take a guess as to what my odds of success would be here in the states if I launched something similar. I'd literally get laughed out of the very city I was born and raised in, while my "customers" followed me out of town asking "why the F*ck do you only offer two services when there are 10,000 Jiffy Lubes, Merlins, Discount Tires, etc. within 10 miles of your location?"

Want another example? Lol okay, sure. In my downtime, I've been watching this dude that goes to the most 3rd world, "hot spot," "no-go zones," etc. all over the world. The sheer amount of solvable and scalable problems I see in ONE 10min video is F*cking obnoxious. For instance, Madagascar is a beautiful city... until you see the 10 tons of rubbish in the streets, the health crisis, and the infestations.

It's almost as-if some brave, daring soul has the opportunity to figure out how to not only solve this problem, but make infinite money while doing it, AND MAKE HIS HOME A BETTER, SAFER PLACE. That sounds like a government contract to me. While I obviously don't know the full details (e.g. maybe they're just another corrupt government that doesn't care, idk) the fact is the opportunity is literally right there, in front of their faces 24/7. All it takes is ONE PERSON to say, "F*ck this, I've had enough."

You're more or less asking the people of this forum to find something that you can do immediately to make money, and then immediately shooting them down when it doesn't fit whatever idea you had/have in mind. This forum is a goldmine of information, potential ideas/paths, etc. if you use it correctly.

Regardless though, it sounds like you have some internal issues to solve before you even consider helping others. The fact is, if you don't have the strength, resolve, and self-awareness to help yourself, you will more than likely never help anyone else. You're from a 3rd world country, but regardless of which country that exactly is, the fact is I'd bet any amount of my shitty, American money that there are literally infinite problems you see every day that you choose to ignore. Some of these problems may be a bit too large right now (e.g. "let me figure out how to get rid of 10 tons of rubbish), but a LOT of those problems will be solvable by someone in your position (e.g. "oh shit, we only have 1 person doing <thing>. I can beat their quality while matching their price.")

As for recommendations, I have none as you've shot down 99.9% of the recommendations here. So instead, I encourage you to actually go out into the world, write down every little problem you encounter, and then when you're home, filter the list to see if there's any type of potential business. Continue doing this until you've matched an issue you see with a skill or skillset you can learn in the semi near future.

Everyone here will tell you where the pond is, but NO ONE is going to hold your hand while you walk down the path to it.

Cheers.

This is spot on! Read this reply every day until you believe it!

 

[Sebzmaniac]

Yeah, search on YouTube and perhaps take a course on coursera or udemy.

It's being a salesmen on video, mainly for high ticket software or infoproducts.

Thanks. I'll search for it.

Wait a minute, "salesman on video". Does that mean people will see me while I make the sale? If that's what it is, I can't. I'm camera shy and an introvert

 

[Sebzmaniac]

I'm rather surprised no one has put you on blast, tbh. Either this forum is getting weak, or the more successful members of this forum are starting to realize people that come here with this mentality are nearly too far gone.

You're from a 3rd world country. I'm from the US. You know, it's funny, because people will cry all day and all night about how much better off we Americans are, how much of an advantage knowing English is, etc. They're right: all of those things are unfair advantages.

That said, most people from 3rd world countries have a fully ingrained victimhood mentality. We have the same opportunities, just in different capacities. For instance, only in a 3rd world country can you make money doing the most mundane, "requires literally 0 skill" task and make bank. Comparatively speaking, with how greedy and competitive capitalism is, if I don't fully flesh out an idea as much as possible, prior to launching, check my Ps and Qs, etc. there's an ~80%+ chance I'm simply wasting my time.

You said it yourself: there's a dude in your village that does nothing but oil changes and tire rotations. Take a guess as to what my odds of success would be here in the states if I launched something similar. I'd literally get laughed out of the very city I was born and raised in, while my "customers" followed me out of town asking "why the F*ck do you only offer two services when there are 10,000 Jiffy Lubes, Merlins, Discount Tires, etc. within 10 miles of your location?"

Want another example? In my downtime, I've been watching this dude that goes to the most 3rd world, "hot spot," "no-go zones," etc. all over the world. The sheer amount of solvable and scalable problems I see in ONE 10min video is F*cking obnoxious. For instance, Madagascar is a beautiful place... until you see the 10 tons of rubbish in the streets, the health crisis, and the infestations.

It's almost as-if some brave, daring soul has the opportunity to figure out how to not only solve this problem, but make infinite money while doing it, AND MAKE THEIR HOME A BETTER, SAFER PLACE. That sounds like a government contract to me. While I obviously don't know the full details (e.g. maybe they're just another corrupt government that doesn't care, idk) the fact is the opportunity is literally right there, in front of their faces 24/7. All it takes is ONE PERSON to say, "F*ck this, I've had enough."

You're more or less asking the people of this forum to find something that you can do immediately to make money, and then immediately shooting them down when it doesn't fit whatever idea you had/have in mind. This forum is a goldmine of information, potential ideas/paths, etc. if you use it correctly.

Regardless though, it sounds like you have some internal issues to solve before you even consider helping others. If you don't have the strength, resolve, and self-awareness to help yourself, you will more than likely never help anyone else. You're from a 3rd world country, but regardless of which country that exactly is, I'd bet any amount of my shitty, American money that there are infinite problems you see every day that you choose to ignore. Some of these problems may be a bit too large right now (e.g. "let me figure out how to get rid of 10 tons of rubbish), but a LOT of those problems will be solvable by someone in your position (e.g. "oh shit, we only have 1 person doing <thing>. I can beat their quality while matching their price.")

As for recommendations, I have none as you've shot down 99.9% of the recommendations here. So instead, I encourage you to actually go out into the world, write down every little problem you encounter, and then when you're home, filter the list to see if there's any type of potential business. Continue doing this until you've matched an issue you see with a skill or skillset you can learn in the semi near future.

Everyone here will tell you where the pond is, but NO ONE is going to hold your hand while you walk down the path to it.

Cheers.

Thanks. But you're talking more about "opportunities", "solving problems" and "entrepreneurship". I'm not interested in those for now. I just want to make some cash now. Maybe entrepreneurship can come later.

 

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[Guest12MW7076]

Thanks. But you're talking more about "opportunities", "solving problems" and "entrepreneurship". I'm not interested in those for now. I just want to make some cash now. Maybe entrepreneurship can come later.

I am hungry, but I am not really interested in eating now. I just want to be full. Eating can come later.

 

[rjdgreat]

In my country, people that change tyres don't do very well financially, and the business doesn't scale that much, if not at all

Also, in my country, if you come from a well to do family, like your parents have professional careers and you do something menial as you mentioned, it's kind of a disgrace.

If my parents didn't have professional careers, I would have given it a thought, but unfortunately I can't

So...do you have another skill recommendation? Something less physical and more online?

If you are really broke then why care for the opinion of other people for taking menial jobs? You're just holding yourself back. You have a problem on how you see things. If you can just reframe how to see things to serve you, you will get fast money.

 

[constant]

Thanks. But you're talking more about "opportunities", "solving problems" and "entrepreneurship". I'm not interested in those for now. I just want to make some cash now. Maybe entrepreneurship can come later.

Get a job.

 

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[UK_Mike]

Thanks. But you're talking more about "opportunities", "solving problems" and "entrepreneurship". I'm not interested in those for now. I just want to make some cash now. Maybe entrepreneurship can come later.

You get that this is really a forum about entrepreneurship, right? And one of the key "teachings" (if that's the correct word) is about "solving problems"?

It does seem that you've got an idea of what you want to do, something "online" but not techy or difficult, but will make you loads of money. I hope you find it. Then I hope you come back and tell us what it was, as I'm sure plenty of people would love that particular golden goose.

 

[Sebzmaniac]

maybe you can start with a less defensive attitude. so working on your people skills will be important to you. think positively, learn to think in possibilities and not in problems.

because this is the BIGGEST REASON you are not moving forward.

the most important skill that I find important if you want to start a business:

learn to communicate with people.
so that you also learn to sell.

which companies do you see a lot where you live? in other words, what is there a great need for in your neighbourhood? is there a way to make this better/faster/cheaper for the customers.

or can you mean something for the companies you often see (wholesale, customer search...)

Only you are in control of your destiny...

Again, you're also talking about entrepreneurship and solving problems. I just want to learn a skill and make money for now.

maybe you can start with a less defensive attitude. so working on your people skills will be important to you. think positively, learn to think in possibilities and not in problems.

because this is the BIGGEST REASON you are not moving forward.

the most important skill that I find important if you want to start a business:

learn to communicate with people.
so that you also learn to sell.

which companies do you see a lot where you live? in other words, what is there a great need for in your neighbourhood? is there a way to make this better/faster/cheaper for the customers.

or can you mean something for the companies you often see (wholesale, customer search...)

Only you are in control of your destiny...

Again, you're talking about entrepreneurship when I just want to learn a skill and make money.

I'll consider working on my people skills. Thanks

 

[Sebzmaniac]

This is spot on! Read this reply every day until you believe it!

Really? Ok, thanks

 

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[Sebzmaniac]

Get a job.

I am light years away from getting a job. I'm still in college.

I don't want to get a job. In fact, I'm trying to escape having one. From MJ's first two books, I think getting a job is dangerous.

Besides in my country, jobs don't pay that much.

My plan is to learn a skill that can make me some cash, then that cash can open the doors to something else or entrepreneurship which will make me rich and I'll never need a job ever again. That's the whole point right?

 

[Black_Dragon43]

I am light years away from getting a job. I'm still in college.

I don't want to get a job. In fact, I'm trying to escape having one. From MJ's first two books, I think getting a job is dangerous.

Besides in my country, jobs don't pay that much.

My plan is to learn a skill that can make me some cash, then that cash can open the doors to something else or entrepreneurship which will make me rich and I'll never need a job ever again. That's the whole point right?

I never held a job in my life. And I personally think people who advise to get jobs are losers (but that’s a different story, also no insults meant to anyone, just a personal opinion).

What I did do was while in University I focused all my time and energies learning a high-value skill that was aligned with my strengths.

Nobody around me could write as well as I did, and express ideas as coherently. Therefore I chose copywriting.

Became a pro, got my a$$ on forums hustling for work, then eLance, then got recommended, etc. ended up building an agency, scaling it to 18 people, worked with some huge brands. Got tired of that and the whole effort of managing so many people + large projects, so 2 years ago I started passing off existing clients to partners, and now I’m building my second agency doing lead gen + coaching/training for agency owners.

Made a ton of money all this time, wasted a lot of it, including times when I spent $50K+ on a single 2-week holiday LOL!

So it’s possible, but you need to find your own path. Assess your strengths, buy a udemy course to learn something aligned with it, start reading like a beast, get your a$$ on UPWORK (yes, don’t go anywhere else at first) and start hustling and practicing. You learn most from practice.

 

[Sebzmaniac]

You get that this is really a forum about entrepreneurship, right? And one of the key "teachings" (if that's the correct word) is about "solving problems"?

It does seem that you've got an idea of what you want to do, something "online" but not techy or difficult, but will make you loads of money. I hope you find it. Then I hope you come back and tell us what it was, as I'm sure plenty of people would love that particular golden goose.

Lol, you're blowing this way out of proportion.

I don't have any "idea" of what I want to do. I just want to learn a skill that will bring me "some cash" and not "loads of cash"

I just want something that is not too techy, but if it's difficult I'll can still go for it.

I know that entrepreneurship isn't easy. If I said I wanted an easy way to go about it, that would be delusional.

 

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[Boy Muhammad]

Where do you live?

What's the minimum wage there?

If you can write, there are several websites that pays you to write articles like Listverse, TutorialsPoint and GeeksforGeeks, you can make around $500/month.

Use the money to run web design ads on Facebook targeting high income countries like US, UK and Canada, outsource the jobs to freelancers on Fiverr for $20.

Or you can bust your a$$ and learn how to trade the Forex Markets and start trading for proprietary firms like FTMO.com

Or start selling under wears to 40+ adults, I heard it's an untapped niche.

 

[Sebzmaniac]

I never held a job in my life. And I personally think people who advise to get jobs are losers (but that’s a different story, also no insults meant to anyone, just a personal opinion).

What I did do was while in University I focused all my time and energies learning a high-value skill that was aligned with my strengths.

Nobody around me could write as well as I did, and express ideas as coherently. Therefore I chose copywriting.

Became a pro, got my a$$ on forums hustling for work, then eLance, then got recommended, etc. ended up building an agency, scaling it to 18 people, worked with some huge brands. Got tired of that and the whole effort of managing so many people + large projects, so 2 years ago I started passing off existing clients to partners, and now I’m building my second agency doing lead gen + coaching/training for agency owners.

Made a ton of money all this time, wasted a lot of it, including times when I spent $50K+ on a single 2-week holiday LOL!

So it’s possible, but you need to find your own path. Assess your strengths, buy a udemy course to learn something aligned with it, start reading like a beast, get your a$$ on UPWORK (yes, don’t go anywhere else at first) and start hustling and practicing. You learn most from practice.

Thanks. Your reply is very inspiring. I haven't found my strengths yet. But when I do, I'll learn a skill around that.

Does my strengths have to do with being intrested in that skill, or having passion, excitement and enthusiasm for it. Is there confusion around it?

Also, when you learned copywriting, where you enthusiastic and had passion for it, together with the strength?