Life Update: Skills Not Required
My dear friends in IT, work hard and stay updated with the market. Learn new skills, spend your days and nights coding. Keep yourself busy with development, testing, UAT, and production issues. Stay awake late debugging code, work on weekends and earn good money.
And then one day, someone who has only completed 12th grade will create a YouTube channel, make random videos, and within two years earn as much money as you did in fifteen years—while completely disregarding your skills and degrees. Am I the only one who thinks like this?
Making random videos is also tough, bro don't think what others do is easy. To earn well one needs to be at the top of their game in whichever field they are. Everyone only looks at those who are the best but there are many struggling or barely surviving in every field. I would say work hard for yourself and loved ones, not to run in a rat race or proving something someone. And yes every human is greedy and everyone thinks like what you think but then that's a human behaviour and one will win the race because someone is losing too.
Bro Youtube or social media is also very tough to crack. Even if you are skilful, no body cares. You can only get famous on social media now if you are a girl with nice assets who is not afraid to sell herself.
Everyone has a different path. Why are you comparing yourself to them.
IT industry offers stability and decent earnings. 100% of IT employees will earn a decent salary they will survive on. So it's medium rewards but low risk.
Compared to that only 1% of top YouTubers are able to earn enough to survive just on that. But few of them will become millionaires. So it can lead to high reward for 1%, but extremely high risk and low reward for rest 99%.
So the choice is yours.
Do you want:
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To earn a decent salary and live a stable life with low risk, based on your skills and knowledge in IT?
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Or do you want to play the YouTube lottery, where 1% will become millionaires, while rest can't survive on those earnings alone?
Most people choose no. 1 😊
I agree to disagree. Not everyone from IT gets lucky enough to have a decent salary and also the "WLB" or anywhere near working without pressure. But yeah giving a try on YouTube with enough skills will get you somewhere between having a good portfolio and a side hustle (which may mint some money in future if done right)
You are absolutely right. Not everyone is designed to be a developer or something in IT, but the majority go there because they are being told to and so not think for themselves. India is such a diverse country with many people using smart devices - ideas are limitless. Most times it's convenient to follow instructions from parents - coz anything goes wrong, they are to be blamed. It's time for the youth to wake up and explore possibilities of being unique and stand-out from the crowd.
