I have written some posts about the issue of marketable skills. I also gave some tips on how someone can make his skill marketable by taking additional courses or going for a different route completely. Those advice are valid if one wants to live on wage. How can one make his skill marketable when he does not have job and decided to fight for himself or herself?
Being an entrepreneur is a different story. One's success does not depend on the college major nor the skills acquired. The success of an entrepreneur depends on his or her ability to understand the need and provide solution for that need. The solution has to be provided in the form of a product or service that addresses the problem. Your level of success depends on how big the problem is and the subsequent solution.
However, your skill can be of help in providing solution if the skill is related to it. Let me use an example to clarify it. One of the least marketable skills is Religious Studies. However, a graduate of Religion can turn into a product and becomes successful as a result. This occurs when the individual can write books about the subject or can have a podcast about religion, or become a speaker on the subject, or prepare a documentary and sell it to major television channels like the one shown on History Channel.
Therefore, another route to making your skills marketable is to turn it into a product or service and sell it to others. As a matter of fact, this concept is not limited to people with low marketable skills. Anyone can apply it. Think about it!
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