The Best Jobs
Tyler Tervooren posted in May on his website that "The best jobs in the world belong to people who have learned to do these four incredibly important things:
Solve real problems for real people.
Get paid to do things they would do for free.
Disconnect their work from a physical location.
Build a business of their own rather than someone else’s."
Interestingly, that matches precisely the job I want to be doing full-time and have been making stabs at and (unsteady) progress towards for three years now.
- I know what problems people have that I am good at solving.
- I know that they are problems which are worth a lot of money to solve.
- There is already a major industry involved in doing very similar things, if not quite in my style.
- I've already done it for free for a very long time.
- I want to do it all over the local city, then country and, eventually, world.
- I'd really like it to be, at the heart and core, _mine_.
My main issue has been sparking client recognition - getting over the "We've always done it this way" lethargy. I need better ways of attracting the notice of people who are genuinely looking for someone to do what I can do.
Solve real problems for real people.
Get paid to do things they would do for free.
Disconnect their work from a physical location.
Build a business of their own rather than someone else’s."
Interestingly, that matches precisely the job I want to be doing full-time and have been making stabs at and (unsteady) progress towards for three years now.
- I know what problems people have that I am good at solving.
- I know that they are problems which are worth a lot of money to solve.
- There is already a major industry involved in doing very similar things, if not quite in my style.
- I've already done it for free for a very long time.
- I want to do it all over the local city, then country and, eventually, world.
- I'd really like it to be, at the heart and core, _mine_.
My main issue has been sparking client recognition - getting over the "We've always done it this way" lethargy. I need better ways of attracting the notice of people who are genuinely looking for someone to do what I can do.