You're Not Ready Yet

Recently, a 20-year-old guy found me through my content and reached out asking for help.

He lives in a third-world country. Said there’s no point in getting a job because the pay is too low.

Also mentioned multiple times that he’s “suffering” and that he couldn’t learn any skills because his “PC isn’t good enough”.

First, I’m aware that where you’re born absolutely influences your access to capital, infrastructure and opportunities.

But I want to be direct.

If you’re messaging me on Instagram or YouTube, that means you have access to either a phone or a laptop.

If you’re online consuming content, you have internet access.

If you’re not working, you have time.

That means you have options.

The real issue is not geography.

You are simply unskilled. And that’s very different.

When I was 20, I didn’t have any useful skills either.

I was broke, I didn’t know how to communicate and I certainly didn’t know how to manage myself.

It wasn’t until around 27 that I started to feel somewhat competent at life. And even now at 32 I still find areas where I need to level up.

Competence comes in levels and you can’t just skip them.

I’ve worked boring, low paying jobs myself.

I used to work at the help desk of a library. I checked people in and dealt with noise complaints every now and then.

I even worked as an assistant field installer for a telephone company. And my job was carrying shit up and down stairs all day.

Nothing glamorous.

But experiences like that are useful to learn how to:

• Show up on time.
• Deal with people.
• Follow structure.

That’s life experience. And it compounds.

Even a low-paying job can build discipline, communication skills and conscientiousness. Those are foundations.

Most advice online tells young people to not work a job, not to go to school and to focus on starting a business immediately and make money fast.

Social media makes it look like everyone’s an exception but always skips the nuance.

For most people this is actually terrible advice because they have:

• No discipline
• No real skills, soft or technical
• No real understanding of themselves

You need real life skills for leverage to work.

If you can’t communicate clearly…

If you can’t focus…

If you can’t provide value in any form…

You’re in for a rough time.

Life doesn’t reward desperation.

It rewards competence.

Focus on becoming valuable, everything else will follow.