Posted by Raymond on
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I don't even know what user interface design is, but programming is a complex and highly specialized skill. If you are a computer programmer great. But it is not something a lay person can easily pick up.

By contrast basic marketing is pretty easy to learn. There are many good books on it that are written in plain English. It would be easy to give a one or two hour workshop class on it that could teach a lot of useful concepts.

We aren't going to teach someone physics. They need to go to school for that. We need to focus on fairly simple, but useful skills.

Basic business skills really aren't that complicated and yield huge results. It is not hard to form a business or to learn basic contract law. Liability isn't a complex subject (at least the basics isn't). Stock investing isn't hard. Neither is starting a home business or buying a gas station and running it (or even hiring someone else to run it and just making a profit off of ownership). We can recommend good books on the subject and have a basic 200 or so page book that can be purchased off of amazon. We could put together a basic presentation on it that lasts about an hour or so. We can have a basic thread with questions and answers and maybe a worksheet the summarizes the physical presentation. It can be learned fairly quickly without any special kind of intelligence or any background knowledge other than a high school diploma.

I think you probably need an I.Q. above 108 though.

Programming if enough people are interested it would be worth giving a workshop on it but I'm not sure how useful that is unless you have studied it in depth for a long time.

You can do a joint venture project and purchase and maintain a rental property on your free time. It doesn't require a lot of effort or study. You just need to understand the basics. It is similar with buying a gas station or investing in stocks. You don't need any kind of special training and it is rather easy for someone who has experience doing these things to give useful tips and pointers that give you a competitive edge against others.

You can learn marketing and all that pretty easily as well. Not all people will be good at it, but you'll discover if you have a talent or not by doing it. Similar with gardening and other basic skills. I think maybe welding/car mechanic might require a vocational class. Martial arts would require a regular class schedule.