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“I’m Not Qualified” is Never an Excuse
You don’t have to wait for someone else’s rubber stamp to get started
I caught up with a few friends recently.
One is a copywriter working maybe 2 hours a day — on a busy day — and making 6 figures.
One has helped develop the sales department of multiple SaaS companies, and is on track to be a millionaire by the end of the year. He’s 25.
Another one started her own marketing agency at 19, and is running a newsletter with an 84% open rate.
None of us have college degrees.
Actually, none of us have any type of formal credentialing in our fields at all. We’re not “qualified” on paper to be crushing it in business. Two of us are college dropouts, and two of us never went.
We all took flak when we made the decision not to go to school — “you’re not going to be successful if you don’t get a degree!”
And yet, most of us have now surpassed the people who told us that.
I landed my dream job at 21 and left it at 24 to go build my own thing, and I’m the least successful person on this list.
The moral of this story?
