Summer break is around the corner in the UK. This year, I will have six months of holidays and I want to put the energy to learn specific skill. What skill did you learn that gave you the most ROI over the years and how did you learn it?
Thank you and have a good day!
Get a sales job. Shadow a CEO. Become a bartender. Learn about people and what makes them tick.
Also, how did you get the opportunities to shadow a CEO? I am not sure how can I provide value to the CEO as a student.
I only learned the bare minimum, which is to do cool things and tell people about them. Even that tiny bit of marketing knowledge made a huge difference to my career.
> how did you get the opportunities to shadow a CEO?
Not all CEOs run fortune 500 companies. My step-father is the sole IT guy at a small manufacturing company. I asked the CEO if I could shadow him one summer and he said yes. The guy knew absolutely nothing about computers, so whenever he had to do anything with a computer, he had me do it. I was always able to get it done in a fraction of the time it took him. He considered that a worthwhile value trade.
If you google around, you'll find stories about how ambitious people have gone about getting their opportunity to shadow CEOs at much, much bigger companies.
I believe systems theory can provide a real edge when competing with people who few most things at work as intellectual d*ck measurement contests, including career advancement based on naive notions of being just more clever, or just working harder to advance. Especially in academic settings, focusing on the social dynamics of your research community is key.
N.b.: This is under the consideration that you are already good/constantly improving your main professional skill, be it coding, writing, selling.
If I send an email to my team (30 people) I spend time crafting it. Making it shorter and clearer. The combined time they spend reading it costs money. Plus they will actually do what I'm asking.
Most people just write the email and hit send.
it allows me to learn any other language quickly.
I learned it by writing 3D graphics apps/games.
I agree with your point that the highest paying works go to people who has studied the most.