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SKILLS THAT PAY THE BILLS A BOOK BY EMI IYALLA
Skills That Pay The Bills by Emi Iyalla cuts through the practical steps we need to take to position ourselves strategically to maximise our earnings and manage them. It tells you what to do with the skills you have and what skills to acquire to become and stay relevant in today’s society.
Each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
Paper qualification is no longer enough in today’s competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for. The need to plunge one’s self into a venture that pays the bills is key to our comfort and inadvertently our happiness.
Let’s face it, skills tell the difference in income. The skilled man will always earn more than his lower-skilled friend, the field notwithstanding. However, not all skills pay equally.
If your current skill doesn’t pay your bills, perhaps you should re-tool – and fast at that. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey otherwise make urgent adjustments if we have gone astray. We can’t isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in.
Each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
Paper qualification is no longer enough in today’s competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for. The need to plunge one’s self into a venture that pays the bills is key to our comfort and inadvertently our happiness.
Let’s face it, skills tell the difference in income. The skilled man will always earn more than his lower-skilled friend, the field notwithstanding. However, not all skills pay equally.
If your current skill doesn’t pay your bills, perhaps you should re-tool – and fast at that. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey otherwise make urgent adjustments if we have gone astray. We can’t isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in.
