Valuing Your Skills: A Personal Journey
Today I would start my blog with this quote, which is my source of motivation for this blog:
Let's meditate on this for a minute:
As someone who has had the experience of not being able to put a price tag on my skills, I understand how the marketplace can be cruel and can use someone for their personal gain without rewarding the person for their efforts.
This is not entirely their fault, but our fault for failing to see the value that we offer to the marketplace. If we truly know the value of what we offer, then we should not offer it for free, or else we would be valuable but yet remain poor for the rest of our lives.
There are a lot of people today who are gifted, talented, and skilled in a lot of things, but yet they don't know how to market their skills. They are shy about putting a price on what they offer and leave it out there for the market to place a price on them.
A Personal Experience
About six years ago, before I joined Hive, I was still at my former school, where I studied electrical and electronic engineering. I was known for playing the guitar, and I was very good at it. I always get invites to different places to play for them and their songs, and all I would say is, if you can pay for my transportation, then no problem. I would take what you offer me.
And most of the time, when I go for these programmes, I don't always receive anything for the time and value I offered.
It got to a point where I wised up and totally changed what happened. Someone was planning a wedding and needed me to join the band to play the guitar for them. I was someone who likes food, and I knew that going to a wedding would be equivalent, but at the same time, I was expecting to be paid for my transportation at least.
On the wedding day, I happened not to have any money on me. I had to trek to the programme, which was very far from my house. I trekked for over 2 hours to get there, played for the church programme, and then trekked from there to the reception party so that I could play there too.
After stressing myself for the whole day, I received nothing. I was not treated like someone who was invited, and I was left to trek back home.
Since that day, I have totally changed. I began learning to place a price tag on every value I offered in the marketplace and chose not to be used by people.
I refuse to remain poor while having something valuable to offer. I chose to know the worth of the value I have to offer and know how to sell it to people.
So how do you resonate with the quote earlier mentioned. I would love to know what you think.
𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁
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Starstrings01, also known as Giftedhands, attends the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta to study mechatronics engineering. He is a lover of the hive, a guitarist from Nigeria, and a student.
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Your quote is just similar to this quote that says 'Dressed the way you want to be address '..it's very simple.
Some fellows just like taking the fellow humans for granted.
Imagine you trekking to and fro to a place where you added so much value to their lives,it's a total NO for me
Thank God you are wiser now, before you take up any invite,let there be proper communication of your price.
Thanks for sharing.
On Hive, I see low quality posts getting high rewards and interesting posts getting almost nothing. I personally have not been good at marketing my skills. Still learning.
Hello
I think that experience opened your eyes to realize that it is very important to value other people's time and effort.
It has happened to me hundreds of times that I finish an excellent story or micro-story in minutes, and people ask me: but why should I pay you if you have written it in 5 minutes?, and what they don't know is that I have overcome more than 40 years. of experience to be able to create those magnificent stories in such a short time, and they think it is very easy to do so.
You always have to give things the value they deserve and be fair.
I liked your post, it is simple, concise and leaves a lesson.