Using software is an easy task for me. However, complicated an app might be, as long as I know what the use for it and I have a little background in it, it is just a matter of a couple of minutes, then I will figure out how to use it to get what I need. Kids’ stuff.
But for some people, this issue can become tough. You’ll find me surprised: "You can’t do even this? You gonna be kidding me."
I used to think this way for some time, but then I realized something—it wasn’t that these things were inherently difficult; they were just unfamiliar to them. Just like how I struggle to understand legal clauses in acts (I’ve been dealing with some registration processes lately), not because they’re impossible, but because I haven’t spent years immersed in them.
Tech, on the other hand, is second nature to me. I’ve used it for so long that it’s practically wired into my hands, eyes, and brain—that’s why it feels easy.
Other things are complicated for me because I never got immersed in them, or at least not that much.
Now here come people who are serious and targeting a certain goal by working on these projects they have. Projects sometimes are multidisciplinary, forcing those who are not experts in one area to hire someone else to do it for them.
But here is the sweet spot: there are other people who opt to try to do it themselves. But they are not experts in it? Yes, so they find someone to teach them, though others can be a little bit extreme and find resources to just teach themselves (me included, hahahaha). But ignore us—let’s focus on this guy who is looking for someone to teach them.
For these kinds of people, the skills you have honed for a long time now come to fruition, as you can be that guy who teaches this person in need and gets paid.
See how simple it is? You just have to figure out what that one special (and valuable) skill or knowledge you have and then find someone who might be willing to pay you to teach them.
Now, if we want to go in this direction, there are a few questions we need to ask ourselves first:
How will you be able to Identify Your “valuable” skill or create one from scratch?
How can you find your first paying student?
Where will you teach your students?
And how can you teach so as your students can actually learn (And come back for more)?
In the next part of this article, we’ll dive into these questions—and uncover a secret that most of us don’t talk about.
