What high income skills do you guys think are worth putting the time in to learn right now? AI? Copywriting? Sales?
I am thinking about learning Copywriting and immersing myself in it for the next 6 months, but I’m afraid that it may be oversaturated along with the AI uprising.
What are your guys’ thoughts?
Domain specific skills which the crowd avoids. Like Coding but coding related to a specific field. Also sales. Sales and understanding the market.
Mobile laptop and tv repair is also a good skill. Most people don’t know whow to repair stuff or are just lazy.
I’ll list em out for you…
You’ll be well off by knowing 2 or more of these skills.
Don’t fear AI, use it to your advantage but know the principles and psychology of copy. You can add a skill to complement it, and don’t be known as a copywriter… too many of em.
High ticket sales. Master that and you bank account will always be full.
I’m actually interested in this. Do you know any resources I can learn from?
Sales.
A lot of popular jobs this year will be dead in few years to come. That’s what happens when all the people start entering one field and expect to mine it for forever while numbers increase. And AI should also be taken into account. A huge numbers of programmers might be replaced with ai in just the next 10 years. Copywriters too. The numbers will shrink a lot.
I wouldn’t look for “trendy” jobs this year.
It could fall as quickly as it got here. I didn’t get into concept art or character design in gaming industry because of this. I went for the animation instead since it’s hard to get into and someone has to operate it. Even now I’m seeing already tools that could replace 3d modelers which is wild. Whoever thinks ai is not gonna replace most programmers is a fool. Same for copywriting. There is no reason for it not to.
Take into account how the job may look in the future to come.
There are AI Sales Agents out there too, and pretty good at the job.
@Pharaoh, resistance is futile. You must join the Skynet.
After being in this industry for 3 years and recently pivoting out, I do not suggest high ticket sales for a number of reason’s. After doing a number of various different types of sales, I feel the “high ticket” industry, which is really just selling coaching and coursing is significantly more difficult then other types of sales, lower paying overall as you are full comission, no stability unless you are in the top 1% in skill set, which tbh you would’ve had to get in 5-10 years ago to do so.
Would highly reccomend tech, software, or medical sales for most people. Not saying you can’t make it in high ticket and make good money quick, but in my expierience the pro’s do not out weigh the cons.
Learning A.I is probably the optimal route right now. Don’t need to learn coding or anything fancy, but learning basic automation and solutions is in such high demand for small-med size businesses right now, and I think most people could hit the “10K” month mark fairly quickly with a simple A.I consulting business model.
As someone using AI to do a lot, I have to point out, ALL AI is far more useful with domain specific knowledge or expertise. For example, anybody can tell AI to make a breathing app with a few specifications and it’ll work for development, but it won’t be production grade. To do that you have to know what goes into a production ready app, or an enterprise-ready app. AI is great for getting a novice to produce work at an intermediate level. But an expert can produce work at an above expert level with AI, because the expert can better direct the AI to handle the nuance of expertise.
The window for 10k/month AI business automation is small. Why? In a very short time there will be a few thousand people touting these skills, all their content will be written by AI, all their stuff will sound the same. There are already a bunch of Youtubers claiming to do this and sell a ‘system’ for others to sell…blah…blah…blah.
Everyone is looking for easier. Look for harder. How can you do the hard things most people want to avoid? Sales pays well, if you’re successful, because it is hard to do for most people.
Should you learn AI? Yes. Learn how it works, what it can do and can’t do, for now. But AI is a multiplier, the more expertise you have the better it will serve you. It took a year of coding with AI to get what I’ll consider good. And I’m nowhere near where I want to be, but I can solve more problems faster, because of understand the territory and the tools.
As to the OP’s question, learn a hard challenging skill, like negotiating. Who wants to negotiate contracts and deals? Very few people. Who can successfully manage expectations on all sides of a deal and deliver a done deal that all parties sign and agree to? This skill cannot be easily replaced by AI. But you better believe the best in the world are going to start using AI and then the gap between the unskilled with AI and the skilled with AI will grow.
@Myster gave you a good list. You can pick one of those skills and niche down. Instead of Email marketing, learn email marketing for accident/injury law firms or bilingual/trilingual accident/injury law firms.
Do know that the skills and expertise of those listed are quickly being turned into AI agents and MCPs.
The future won’t be AI only, for now, but it will definitely be AI-assisted. S&P 500 company CEOs are already telling their employees that before they hire more people, they have to first show that the work cannot be done by AI-first.
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