7 High-Income Skills to Learn.

A Skill is 10x Valuable than a Degree.

Chikwado Paul Igwe
Write A Catalyst
5 min readJun 3, 2024

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If a man is rich, it means there are things he didn’t know before he became rich that he humbled himself, denied, and sacrificed lots of things to attain.

My own business is to help humble people make more money.

When poverty wires you enough.

You will learn.

We hold deeply the belief that money is the ultimate key to success in our modern world today. But this is not the truth of the matter. Success is accompanied by qualities like passion, competence, and consistency.

If you are working on your business, society, or career, mastering these seven high-income skills is indispensable for a good future. You can earn more than $100K annually if you acquire any of the skills below.

1. Content Creation and management

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  • Content creation and management skills involve storytelling and are often crucial for marketing careers. As a Medium writer, you can testify how lucrative it is.
  • This skill set incorporates creativity, originality, social perceptiveness, and emotional intelligence.
  • Taking these skills a step further can also mean adding data analysis to your toolbox, specifically honing in on marketing analytics so that you can assess how well an audience is connecting with your content.

2. Data Analysis

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Interpreting and understanding sophisticated data to assist firms in making enlightened choices is what data analysis involves. In the quest to exploit big data, this ability is becoming more and more important.

  • People skilled in data analysis may use a range of tools including Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, Tableau, R, or Python.
  • Data Visualization is the usage of tools that include Tableau, and Power BI to visualize insights from data captured which could be in different forms such as text or images.
  • Machine Learning involves implementing algorithms that will help analyze or predict trends in datasets.

3. Project Management:

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  • Proficient project management abilities are crucial in terms of guiding groups of individuals as well as guaranteeing that all such tasks are finalized according to schedule and that funds for all such undertakings are utilized more effectively.
  • A person who is skilled in coordinating efforts across each of those touchpoints is skilled in project management. These team members may be responsible for maintaining schedules, organizing budgets, and communicating with project stakeholders.
  • Agile methodology refers to the effective management of projects through practical means. Risk management refers to the process of identifying and controlling future project dangers. Communication refers to maintaining transparency and effective communication with stakeholders.

4. Cybersecurity:

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  • Given the higher number of online security risk instances, the market is in urgent need of online security professionals who can tackle emerging challenges.
  • The professionals who are highly regarded are those who specialize in threat detection, responding to incidents, as well as ensuring adherence to security regulations.
  • Look for certification courses such as ethical hacking.

5. Software Development

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  • Software development is complex and in demand since modern advancements have been relentless and most companies depend on this (industry)
  • People skilled in DevOps or software engineering may use tools like Git, Docker, Jenkins, or Kubernetes, and may know coding languages like Python, Java, or C++.
  • Web Development: Where websites & web applications are either built or updated.
  • Mobile App Development: Make an application for iOS or Android system.

6. Financial Management

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  • Once you own a company and want to keep it profitable for a lifetime, financial management skills are critical.
  • You need to know the basics of accounting including how it relates to your business before you start anything.
  • One must also consider if they want to be good at budgeting: it’s necessary for any businessperson who wants to know where his finances are allocated during a specific time frame and improve their budget management skills from when they didn’t know how on earth do I this thing

7. UX Designer:

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  • Hand in hand with technological development comes user experience (UX), which has to do with the way a consumer interacts with a product.
  • People working in UX figure out the best way to present a product to consumers. They may conduct research, design, or help market a product.

Conclusion:

Spending time and putting more effort into understanding these skills that pay more can increase your job and earnings capabilities to greater heights. Whether it is content creation, digital marketing, software development, data analysis, project management, sales and negotiation, graphic design, or financial management, these are skills that people want most which could make one access various prospects.

Thank you for reading.

Regards>>>Paul

References

  1. World Economic Forum. “The Future of Jobs Report 2020, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2020.pdf.” Accessed December 9, 2022.
  2. Coursera. “Industry Skills Report 2021, https://www.coursera.org/skills-reports/industry.” Accessed December 9, 2022.

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Chikwado Paul Igwe
Write A Catalyst

I am Chikwado Paul Igwe, a Digital primeur. I am in love with digital space.