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Imagine: You enter laborforce today. What skills do you need before starting?

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Hello HN! I am expected to graduate law school next year but I'm jealous of the skillset of people in different fields. It feels much more useful and specific than law!

To answer the title:

Example: Imagine I want to work on WallStreet... What skills do you need? Be specific what 5 skills you need on a daily basis to succeed at the job and get hired.

Maybe you are an entrepreneur? What did you know before starting? How did you start? Share all your stories in the comments!

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A university degree in any field is merely the admission ticket to the relevant profession.

Based on my observations and experiences (and I have decades of that), you need to:

    1. Develop the ability to learn fast in the real world. Not theory, but practical aspects.

    2. Have the willingness to see problems and effectively applying your knowledge and experience to come up with viable solutions which people will pay for.

    3. Develop the ability to effectively network, communicate with people. Mainly to listen and understand. Building empathetic connections is what makes relationships endure.

    4. Commit to a domain / niche in which you become a recognized expert. Generally, the more specialized, the more lucrative. However, if you pick a soon to be dead-end, then you need to restart from scratch.

teacher here:

1. being able to do anything in the classroom that uses tech without it! for instance schools want us to have kids always use scratch but they usually skip out on game development and just do games developed from community like geometry dash. if schools want kids to learn code for instance teach it to them with as little tech as possible because they will misuse it. 2. being able to do things that get a positive reaction from kids. for instance always read books with a funny voice you can do rather than your usual voice. 3. understanding attention spans is critical. kids can only pay attention for minutes that equal their age. for instance a 5 year old can give you 5 mins for teaching and a 10 yo can give you 10 mins. then give brain break for 5 mins then get back to the teaching part is how lecturing has to work rather than droning on. 4. represent any any any data and info in a unique way. this is why people like youtube videos for instance where a story is told through drawings rather than a voice over a powerpoint. 5. being good with kids is 90% of teaching. 10% is the teaching part.

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