You Need To Know How To Steal Skills From Your Employer To Make You Wealthy
Learn the valuable skills to steal while you work to start a business to build wealth.
Have you worked jobs you hated?
I have.
I've mostly worked retail jobs from night stocking to selling Nespresso machines. While I wouldn't want to work those jobs forever, they taught me transferable skills in customer service, sales, and marketing that helped me start my own business.
Work for an employer to steal valuable skills, so you can become a business owner to build wealth.
The Problem With Trading Time For Money
Most people work for one reason. To earn a paycheck.
But your salary keeps you just comfortable enough to stay with an employer.
You'll never be wealthy enough to leave.
Wages don’t keep up with inflation.
Raises don't keep up with the rising cost of living.
You lose purchasing power each year as an employee.
Job security is a lie. Companies can replace you faster than ever.
Your industry caps your income. No matter how hard you work, you'll never earn more than your employer allows.
What's the alternative?
Treat your job like a paid apprenticeship.
You work to learn knowledge, not money.
Key Point: A paycheck keeps you afloat today, while a skill set sets you up for life.
2. The Skill-Stealing Framework: What To Learn In Every Job
Not all skills are equal.
Focus on high-value, transferable skills that you can earn money working anywhere.
Sales And Persuasion
Even if you're not in sales, it's critical to learn to sell, negotiate, and influence others.
Watch how top performers close deals. Study their sales strategies.
If you can sell, you’ll never starve.
Everything in business comes down to sales and persuasion.
Sales directly connect to marketing.
Marketing
Pay attention to how a company builds an audience and attracts customers.
Analyze a business' ads, emails, headlines, marketing copy, and social media content.
Attention equals money.
Learn how to drive people to your business' products and services sales pages.
Learn about the sales and marketing funnels.
Customer Service
Every job involves people. It doesn't matter whether it's retail, food service, or corporate roles.
Customer service is a valuable skill.
Customer service teaches you how to handle complaints, receive negative feedback, and turn angry customers into happy ones.
You learn to communicate and solve problems under pressure.
All of these skills are critical for running your own business.
These skills will help you attract and keep clients online and offline.
Excellent customer service builds brand loyalty faster.
Systems And Efficiency
Learn how a business operates.
Study a business' workflows and automation to understand how the company you work for reduces waste and increases productivity to save money.
Running your own business means doing more with less.
Master efficiency.
Management And Leadership
Observe your company's team structure and identify if it has good leadership.
Learn to delegate.
Master conflict resolution.
Understand decision-making.
You can't scale alone.
Leadership skills multiply your impact.
Key takeaway: Use jobs to learn the skills you need to start a business.
3. Why Company Loyalty Is A Scam
The Broken Promise Of "Work Hard, Get Rewarded"
Companies preach loyalty. The reality is that any company will fire you the second it becomes more profitable to do so.
This is even more true with the rise of AI, automation, and technology, which are replacing many jobs and industries.
Pensions are dead. 401(k)s depend on the market, not your employer.
Promotions take years. You may never receive a promotion.
Your salary is always less than the value you create for the company you work for.
The Only Loyalty That Matters: Loyalty To Yourself
Your career should be about building your own empire.
Don't build someone else’s business for pennies.
Equity beats salary.
Own a percentage of a business by starting your business or going into business with someone you know who has the skillset you need for success.
Skills and experience matter the most in any business.
A business is the best way to achieve financial freedom.
Key Point: Companies prioritize their own interests. Put your self-interest first, too.
4. The Escape Plan: From Employee To Entrepreneur
Step 1: Identify Your Marketable Skills
Figure out what you know that people will pay for.
Ask yourself what problems you can solve better than others.
The answers will show you where to focus your energy.
Step 2: Build A Side Hustle
Start simple with a side hustle.
Start freelancing on Upwork or Fiverr.
Offer consulting services through a freelancing platform.
Once you start earning enough money, form an LLC.
You can change a bank account from a personal to a business account on freelancing platforms.
You can then expand to sell both digital and physical products, as well as your services.
Sell digital and physical products on the side.
Continue reinvesting your business profits instead of spending them in the short term.
Reinvesting in your business allows you to scale so you can move from being self-employed to having people work for you.
Hiring other people to work for you allows you to scale your business and increase its profitability.
Step 3: Go All-In
Once your side income or business matches or exceeds what you earn at your current job, resign.
Now, you can go all in and focus 100% on building and scaling your business.
Real wealth is built from owning businesses, not from working for an employer.
Key takeaway: Use your employer to fund your escape from working the 9-5.
5. Why Your Mindset Matters
When you work to learn, you'll never fear layoffs or industry changes.
You'll make more than you would ever earn working for an employer.
You're always working on self-improvement.
You look to grow from the jobs you work rather than the paycheck.
Every job you work teaches you new skills.
Once you're able to leave working for an employer and start your own business, you control your income.
Invest in your skills.
You are the ultimate asset.
Key takeaway: High-value skills equal financial freedom through business ownership.
Summary
Jobs are temporary.
Your skills last forever.
Learn what you need at work. Save your money and work a side hustle so you have a plan to leave your current job.
Your career should be a series of calculated moves that ultimately lead to becoming a business owner.
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