Enhance your skills

When was the last time you enrolled yourself for a class to upgrade your skills. And I don't mean a 2-day course where someone speaks and you listen. I mean a course that is aimed at enhancing your skills. Any skill that you have identified as something that is essential for you to do what you love doing the most.

You see, the formal education you get at college is just adequate to get you a job. That is not sufficient. All those who have some work experience will know that very little that you have studied in your college is of any use at work. Almost certainly, nothing that you studied at college is of any use to you to do what you love most. Yes, the extracurricular activities that you were involved in is of greater use. But is that sufficient?

Do you love to paint?
Do you think you can become a great author some day?
DO you love coding?

Get yourself enrolled into an evening course. Now!

And how is this relevant to becoming rich?

All investment schemes I have suggested in this blog and all advise that I give you in this blog are force-multipliers. These schemes ensure a comfortable life, at worst, and a prosperous life, at best. But these are, as I said, force multipliers; not the force themselves. Your income is still the source of supply to these schemes. You still need to feed these schemes. For that you need to improve your earning capability. If your present job is something you love, good. But if you think you will do better in an entirely different domain, then you need to try that as well.

I do not advise you to drop that day job of yours. You will find many people advising you to break away, take that risk, and try a new possible future. I would advise against it. Do all this if you are extremely confident, are willing to slug it out and do not have any additional responsibility. This can be done, perhaps, when you are still young, unmarried and do not have to look after your parents.

An easier way is to enroll into a evening course and find out if you are really that good. These evening courses will bring in the discipline you need to learn a new skill. (Unless you are really driven I do not advise correspondence course; the discipline is lacking). And when you do find out you are good, go all out for it. Till then keep that day job.