Learning a digital skill is one of the most efficient practices these days for people who want to go places. Skill learning solves on of the biggest problems of today: ‘unemployment’. People no longer need to spend years searching for a 9-5 job which offers nothing more than an average salary. With a digital skill, one does not only earn while sitting at home rather he earns in dollars ($) which can be converted to a substantial amount in the home country. Aside from freelancing, an online earner can try for an income which is not subject to the availability of orders. He can apply for a remote job. The world has finally reached a stage where someone doesn’t need to drive from company to company, desperately hunting for a job. Instead, he should apply to the better paid and yet unexplored job markets with high demand for workers of all skills.
In order to attain better knowledge of a skill, freelancers often take online courses offered by famous universities on platforms like Coursera. After completing these courses, a certificate is earned. This can have a great impact on your portfolio and the projects done while completing the course can make your resume shine in an unprecedented way. This can give you an edge in the freelance market after you showcase your portfolio consisting of real-world projects and precious certificates. More importantly, this could boost your chances of getting a remote job or a scholarship in case you are applying for a university abroad.
Though most freelancers do think, when will they enjoy a life promised to every freelancer after a few years of freelancing or will they continue to work for hours and hours every day? Well, the answer rests in another side hustle. Selling courses online on platforms like Udemy. After establishing himself as a veteran in the freelancing market, a freelancer might decide to impart with his experience and establish a stream of passive income at the same time.
Other freelancers and online businessmen might decide to take their online careers to another level by banding together with other like minded people and initiating an online startup which will take their exposure, experience and earnings to an apogee.
After all these advantages, it is an established fact that online skills can broaden the freelancer’s horizon and experience, and there is just no limit to what one can achieve in the online world.
Written By: Asad Ismail
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