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With that kind of money I reckon you would be better off just hiring someone to either share the workload or bring in a skill set that you don't have yourself.
by dazc 3y ago
With that kind of money I reckon you would be better off just hiring someone to either share the workload or bring in a skill set that you don't have yourself.
You can spend relatively small amounts of money that will improve your own productivity but your future earnings are very much limited by your own abilities.
- mettamage 3y agoActually, starting up a digital agency might be the way to go? Like, he can learn from his colleagues. He also makes a return on investment. Imagine this: you hire one UX designer, one marketeer and one dev guy (not in the US but in The Netherlands you could do this). You yourself oversee their projects and learn from all their skills. Even if you lose $40K per year, that's okay because you'd pay that money anyway for education. It doesn't have to be one UX designer, one marketeer and one dev guy either. You can also think of other things that you might want to learn that synergize well with each other. @OP: if by any chance you go through with a variation of this idea, feel free to shoot me an email. I'm curious how it would play out. Also, in certain cases I'd love to be the dev guy :) Email is in profile.
- blackhaj7 3y agoThis is a great answer. I think I would do something similar (or pay for help with a side hustle to work on alongside investing in myself through course/deliberate practice). I am not sure which areas I would focus on though. If I ever get my hands on $200k, I will hit you up!
- blackhaj7 3y ago> your future earnings are very much limited by your own abilities Exactly. I thought it would be an interesting framing to see how people would invest in their own abilities. Specifically I was interested in what areas HN folk think it would be worth improving their abilities in