Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Thanks to the evolution of technology, we now have the opportunity to earn both online and offline. In those days, we depended completely on only the practical things we could do offline in order to earn a living, and failure to have any practical skills meant you were on the wrong path that would lead you into encountering and having to deal with a lot of financial crises. Then technology came into the picture, and today many people don't see the need to have a practical skill offline because they have been made to believe that the internet has come to stay and their online jobs will always be there to put food on their table, but that is actually a very wrong path to follow.
With the evolution of technology, many people no longer see the need for offline skills as much. As, technology is good and might be here for a long time, putting all of your eggs in one basket is not a good thing to do, as if anything damages the one basket, then you might lose all your eggs, and such a loss is one that the person might never recover from, or even if they manage to recover from it, they might live with the pain for a very long time.
Over the years, one of the biggest lessons I have learned is how important multiple streams of income are; they give you the lift that you need towards financial freedom. Depending completely on a single stream of income is risky. What if something goes wrong and your single stream of income is no longer there to serve? What do you fall back on? Savings? We all know that saving when removing without replacing will eventually finish. After that, what happens? This is why multiple sources of income are important: when one closes, you fall back to the other as you try to rebuild the other or get a new one.
Image is mine and take by me at work.
Once upon a time I was completely dependent on crypto, and my every source of income revolved around it, and then the dip came knocking, and it was a very terrible experience. I found it difficult to afford basic needs; wants were not even looked at, as affording basic needs was very difficult, not to talk more of wants. I almost lost my sanity that period, and it was then that I realized that if only I had another source of income, then it would not have been that bad, as I could have fallen back on the other, probably an offline skill, but I had none as of then, and I had to acquire one.
I paid for an interior design course that would last a year. I enrolled last year and would be rounding up this year, but while a trainee, I have actually seen how much being an interior designer has helped my finances. Even if the internet is taken away today, I am certain that through interior designs I can comfortably afford both my needs and wants without stressing too much. I might still be a trainee, but I have had contracts and deals that showed me the good sides of interior design as well as the opportunities that come with it.
