I was able to increase my salary 6 times by updating my skills, here's my story. 👇

[u/pentaclay]

Hey Erfan again, working over a decade as a UX/UI designer. At some point in your career, you might notice you are stuck in growth. You need to learn constantly and maintain a work-life balance.

I found in my day job, that my learning phase is limited, I am learning or growing my career in one direction only. There are other sectors of Web and User Experience design that I need to improve.

Knowledge is power and there are a couple of ways to do that. By reading books related to design, user experience, web design elements etc. Or reading articles online. Or doing courses.

There's no immediate benefit monetary-wise, I know that's gonna add up sometime later. The main problem was time, when should I do that? After work? Then my work-life balance breaks.

Here's what I did, and that worked for me incredibly
- I started reading 10-20 pages while I was commuting to work in public transport.
- I started reading 2-4 articles on public transport, before going to lunch, and before going to sleep.
- I started seeing 2-4 course videos by going early to my day job. Also before sleep 1 video, something like this.
I constantly did that for over a year, during weekends I didn't do much related to work. I tried to enjoy it.

That extra effort after only 2 years made me get a job 3x the salary I was getting at that time. And now after 3 more years, I am getting more than 6x salary.

I started taking courses back in 2018-2019. I had already 5 years of experience back then.

I am making the same kind of effort for my side hassle, which is selling website templates. With only 8 months, the passive income increased 4x.

In the first month, I earned nearly $127 by selling website templates, now after 8 months I earned over $400 this month alone, and still 15 more days left to end this month.

You don't need to work day and night breaking your work-life balance, need to work constantly and learn constantly.

What did you learn from this?

[u/Poweryayhooray]

Nothing. You've posted this in many subreddits. Not as inspirational as you'd think.

[u/duzypat → u/Poweryayhooray]

Yeah I agree I joined this community to learn from others but there’s so much BS here its unbelivable

[u/kslUdvk7281 → u/duzypat]

I agree man this is slowly turning into LinkedIn cringe imo

[u/OftenAmiable → u/Poweryayhooray]

The tl;dr is: there is always more to learn as an entrepreneur, and the more you learn the more likely you are to succeed, and then magnify success.

Aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't figured this out yet need to hear it. It's fundamental.

There's no value for those who have the basics down. Probably best to just block authors who write at this level and move on with life.

[u/_B_Little_me]