Nobody makes a living there except Google and Facebook. Not only would I skip the empty promises of the self-help/personal development genre, I’d also steer clear of the entire Web 2.0, social media, user-generated content space. Here’s my advice for accomplishing that, in a nutshell: 1.
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Related: 6 Epic Online Fails and How to Avoid Themįrom this vantage point I can honestly say there’s a universe of opportunity out there for those with the same sort of ambition and drive that I had, but only if you follow the right path and don’t go astray. I may be in a Baby Boomer body but my experience right after college was Gen Y all the way. When I look at the data on Millennials being perhaps the most underemployed, unemployed and indebted generation in history, I can’t help but feel a strong sense of empathy. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to earn a good living by providing real products and services that genuinely help businesses and people. To this day I thank my lucky stars for the work ethic my dad taught me, the brains to think critically and the instincts that can only come from growing up on the streets of New York. Instead I put myself out there, learned about the coming digital age, trusted my gut, got a Master’s degree in electrical engineering, found my way into the high-tech industry, and the rest is history. What’s scary is that I probably would have been damn good at it. The very thought that I might have bought into that baloney in a moment of weakness and become a disciple of the shyster way gives me the creeps. Related: The Key to Happiness: More Work and Less Stuff It’s like a perpetual-motion machine for making money: no friction, no products, no expertise, and yet everyone gets rich. No matter how you spin it, success that’s built entirely on selling people a book or a seminar that promises the secret to success is just a self-help-style Ponzi or pyramid scheme.
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