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Providing Services, Exchanging Your Skilled-Time for Money

This unit is focused on learning service-oriented skills that enable you to exchange your skilled-time for an hourly wage. This unit consists of services that you can charge for and can be learned relatively quickly.

While the specifics of every job might be different, there are several universal prerequisites that you will need for your at-home customer service gig no matter what company you join, including:

Quiet work environment

High-speed internet connection connected to an ethernet cable (not wireless)

Landline phone

Up-to-date operating system on your computer

Ability to download and use specified software

Basic computer skills

Music Production

In modern times, many genres of music can be entirely composed independently using your computer, without the assistance of a band or production crew.

The barriers to music production are extremely low; one person and a computer is sufficient to produce really amazing music (requiring musical talent too.)

Any musically-talented individual is capable of creating music of this nature without the need for expensive production studios or teams of people. It does not matter what life-challenges you are facing either, anyone with musical talent can create music.

Selling Art Online

Selling art online can be a profitable endeavor, both if you are an artist seeking to sell your own work or if you are simply an admirer of art who wants to make a business of selling other people's works.

Avoiding art scams

Art scams are ways to exploit an artist who is eager to succeed and may be convinced that the scammer is sincerely offering a useful service or purchase. As soon as you are asked to spend money, it is critical that you research very thoroughly to determine if you are being scammed.

Galleries

Galleries should never ask you to pay for presenting your art. These type of galleries are termed “Vanity” galleries and are not reputable.

Art competitions

Art competitions may be an attractive momentary “feel good” for artists trying to break into the art world.

Mastering the job interview & getting hired

Once you have gotten the opportunity to be interviewed you will need to demonstrate interview skills to your recruiter.

Having a good interview will leave a lasting impression on the interviewers and put you near the top of the list for potential candidates to obtain the job.

The typical steps to being hired are:

1. Send in your resume and cover letter requesting the role

2. If step 1 is successful, the company will schedule a time to interview you

3. Go through the interview.

4. If step 3 is successful, the company will provide you a job offer.

5. You sign or acknowledge acceptance of the offer, and fill out any other paperwork provided in step 4

6. Communicate with the company any necessary details that were not outlined as of yet.

How to get paid

After getting a job you will need a place for your place of employment to send money to, this means opening a bank account, usually a checking account.

Checking account

A checking account enables you to deposit check based payments that people give you, as well as writing checks to pay other people. It is important that to know how to write a check correctly.

Some banks also include additional features such as Zelle and other tools for direct-transfer of funds between people. Zelle and similar competing products work similar to PayPal, enabling you to send money to people by entering in their phone number or email address and the amount that you wish to send. The recipient would need a Zelle account to accept the funds. Money sent by Zelle transfers instantly and is typically irreversible, like giving that person cash.

Trading stocks

The two primary types of stocks are common and preferred stocks, however there are several other types.

Types of orders (ways to buy/sell stock)

Stocks can be purchased and sold in a variety of ways, each way having it's own purpose and use.

There are many other order types as well, including:

Short sell orders

All-or-None orders

Fill-or-kill orders (FOK)

Immediate-or-cancel (IOC)

Buy to cover

Good till cancelled

and many more.

Terminology for trading stocks:

The first term you need to learn is "ticker symbol". Every listed stock has its own ticker symbol, allowing for clear organization of each and every transaction in the stock market.

Earning income by living a jet setter lifestyle

Want to earn income by travelling to fun places and doing fun activities? There are many ways to do that.

Social Influencer

One of the most common methods is to use social media to earn income from the sharing of your adventures and interesting stories.

Travel vlogger

Travel vlogging is a great way to earn income while travelling on a budget.

Travel photography and literature

Travelling will provide you with unique chances to capture the beauty of the world and expansive range of people inhabiting it.

Productivity apps

Proficiency with the productivity apps is an expected skill for virtual assistants.

Google Sheets is great for organizing, analyzing, and viewing data, as well as managing accounting and calculations.

Google Docs is ideal for any writing assignment or essay. It allows for many users to share and collaborate ideas, edits and suggestions.

Google Slides enables the creation of presentations; it is free and competes with Microsoft PowerPoint. Google Slides gives users a professional and useful platform to create presentations.

The Gmail platform allows users to create an email address and send emails.

As a virtual assistant, it is important to adopt a professional writing style in your emails.

Google Drive is an online cloud storage where all your Google documents get stored. It allows users to easily share these documents with others as well as organize all the documents.

Virtual Assistant

A VA handles clerical concerning day-to-day administrative duties, and should be technically savvy having experience with a variety of SaaS products like G-Suite, Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce and Zoom.

Being a virtual assistant encompasses many different tasks; these tasks can be divided into multiple categories.

There are many different virtual assistant opportunities available for you to choose from, depending on what you enjoy doing.

Learning Microsoft Excel for business analysis - I learned this at Techie Youth today! By Eileen Urena

The most basic skill employers often look for in candidates is proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Excel is used to record, manipulate, and analyze. Statistical data and is used by many statisticians across multiple fields. Excel is not free, most of its functions are available in Google Sheets, a free alternative to Excel.

Quality Assurance - I learned this at Techie Youth today! By: Eileen Urena

Quality Assurance testers and technicians work by testing software for businesses or companies. There job is to make sure that the software, and hardware, works the way that the client expects it to. QA testers can be hired for both new projects and upgrading or fixing legacy existing applications.

Many professional QA testers utilize the Software Testing Life Cycle to improve the results of their QA efforts.

Software Testing can be majorly classified into white box testing and black box testing.

Different types of testing are:

Intro testing (Smoke and sanity testing, Regression testing)

Website and content testing (Link checking, W3C validation, Responsive testing, Compatibility testing, Usability testing, Accessibility testing)

Performance testing (Stress testing, Load testing)

Functional testing (Equivalence partition testing, Unit testing, Security testing)

Earning Immediate Income Now - I learned this at Techie Youth today! By: Eileen Urena

One of the immediate options on how you can earn an income fast is by working online!

Anyone with a working computer and good working Wi-Fi can earn money!

Some of the specific qualifications are as stated: physical location, and certain skills like fluency in a foreign language. Still, there are many ways to earn immediate income online for virtually everyone.

Some other ways to earn money online are as listed below:

Getting paid for taking surveys, focus groups, and tasks.

Proofreading

Reviewing music

Write greeting cards

Mock juror

Translation jobs (those who are bilingual)

Transcription (where you listen to audio clips and type out the text spoken in them)

Ghostwriting (where you are hired to write content for someone else)

Other sources for quick cash

Procuring objects with resale value for free or very cheap

Selling items that you may already have

Providing short-term services utilizing your current skills/abilities