Topic: online skills in the face of war - page 6. (Read 814 times)

You can still LOL while the people who work from home are employees from the office, especially government employees. Meanwhile, many people who work alone do not work in an office but are still trying to work offline.

Some of the offices are closed, some do not mean all offices are in one city, right?
It means that people still don't work from home, don't work online, and don't try to work online like people who work in offices and government.

Everyone is busy designing logos, making videos and trading? You must be kidding. There would be no such scenario, my friend. Even in big countries but I don't know if that's your scenario, my friend

It would be better if you have more than one source of income,
as you said with today's digital development we need to use it well to make money online and there are actually many platforms that we can use for that,
Of course it comes back again depending on the skills each person has

What I experienced myself, the salary of us working in the office is not enough to support all our needs. but every human being has fortune, and we must also pursue it, so that we don't just rely on one source. still grateful for what we get because we have a fixed salary every year. but in the digital era like today, if we can take advantage of it, of course there will be many opportunities, as we are in this forum, one of them

Solving economic problems requires several things, the most important of which are:

 - Increase awareness of financial culture and learn more money.
 - Reducing expenditures to a minimum.
 - Investing the surplus money in assets and shares.
 - Redirect investment returns in asset purchases to maximize wealth.

Getting extra is a good thing, but unless a person learns the tips above, more money will lead to increased debt if you do not know how to deal with this money.
If you do a small analysis, you will find that debts increase with the increase in the income of individuals and the absence of financial information.

No, you don't understand.

Let me give you an example, this is real life, this is happening right now.
One of the biggest meat processing plants around here is desperately looking for 400 qualified employees, if they don't get at least half of them by the end of April they have notified a lot of suppliers (including my parent's farm) they will not be able to process the mean, not buy the pigs, and not honor our contracts. This will mean we have either to keep feeding the animals at a loss, try to sell them at a loss one at a time, or, whatever.

The guy that keeps pressing F5 to find a freelance job will walk happily into the store after getting paid 200$ and see that the prices of pork have risen from 4 euros a kilo to 10, and he will look dumb folded why is this shit happening! There is an insane demand for physical presence and physical labor right now on the market, with wages that are well over that the average Joe that has just learned to make a WordPress install will ever be able to make and people still think about digital jobs! How many digital jobs do you think we need!

The logistic center next to my office that has a lot of guys coming to the same coffee shop at break time is looking for qualified forklift drivers, paying 13 euros per hour, that's 30% above the median wage. Look at everything skyrocketing in price! That's because we don't have truck drivers, we don't have farmers, we don't have butchers, we don't have construction workers, we don't have retail workers in chain stores! Digital skills, digital skills! To whom are millions of new workers with digital skills going to sell those?

Do you think that if 100 million people start trading tomorrow they will all make at least 500$ a month? Where is that money going to come from? If another 100 million starts making and writing content, who is going to buy that content where there will not be enough people to even read that!

It is right that apart from our dream profession we need more skills. Apart from the financial gains that comes with that, having additional skills will help us to be better fit in the society and around us. This is the same called diversification and it grows your finance faster because you may not depend to the profession for money and when one aspect fails to bring in money then you can live with the other. This time around the digital space is the area that people are acquiring this additional skills because of the size of the market, it has large size of customer and followership like those involved into blogging etc.

Are you responsible for all of that to work? I mean there are those who do this kind of work, and there are those who will not. Just because we "need" these jobs to be filled, doesn't mean that we need to do it ourselves, let others do it. If you want to save yourself, just stop working for something like this, and focus on getting a digital talent that could be hired by some company in a better nation.

Plus, people who are in the USA will ask for a lot of money, median salary there is 52k, whereas in another nation you could get someone for 12k, who says they won't be as good or even better? This is why individually we are not responsible for filling those jobs, we are only responsible to get ourselves richer.

True, digital skills or some businesses done over internet is going to be the only option as I see in the coming decades, I would say though, not all of offline jobs will become less, some offline skills can also be learnt which might seem trivial or jobs of lower classes but if seen from an angle of side income, they are good, and lots of savings are required if one wants to stay above their lifestyle and status on a constant basis.

We build the focus to grow together, but the many influences around us make many people feel controlled by their work. The satisfaction within us needs to be worked on before it can teach us other life skills, and the freedom to work is good, but it also needs to be controlled for the effectiveness it brings, I think chaos. If many people see it as a way of working for the future, it will be better if you know for yourself what you need to do for a good life.

Well it's obvious that even before the war, during the pandemic, people started to look for other means to earn and make both ends meet.

So the online business boom, I myself learned to evolved myself in this way, buying things and then reselling it online for a margin of profit. And that's why I don't rely on my paychecks, yes still good that you have it like every two weeks, but it's better to look for side hustle, in my opinion to at least have some spare to put table for your family everyday.

Why the question about the war? Digital skills are always needed. In peacetime, they will help you make money, you can always earn your living and help your family. Any skills are good to have! In the modern world, digital technologies are gaining momentum and it would be a shame not to take the chance to learn a little more about them. During the war, if you do not take part in it and do not be on military territory, these skills will come in handy to help other people and that's great!

Three lines of nothing won't get you employed anywhere!
Can you explain not only what will these millions of people do in content creation and cyber security but also, who is going to make their work?



Everyone is saying digital skills, you have to learn to program, you need to get a job that can allow you to work remotely, and then they are making Pikachu faces when they hear they will have to wait 10 days for somebody to come and inspect their washing machine, that it will cost them one monthly wage and that the spare parts are coming next year.

Your thoughts will surely enlighten many people, in this fast-moving era, everyone is required to have more than a one-earned income.  i even have employees who in 1 day do 3 different types of work because the cost of living here is quite high.  Not everyone is born into a rich family, but everyone during their lifetime must have the opportunity to be rich.

Yes that is right! I think before the war , like when the pandemic hits imagine if you do have a digital skills then you can earn money from your home right? What ever catastrophe as long as you do have internet and laptop you can work and yes I could say that pay is really high but if you are just starting then it would be low but still its a goods start. Though if we talk it we can say it is easy like buying your equipment like laptop but the competition is really huge so you need be good in something and make sure that the employer will choose you over the others.

Digital skills are diversified just like offline jobs are diversified. If some move digital marketing, some other might have interest in content creation, a few others might decide to move to cyber security, many others might embrace data analysis. The option is too diverse Even with the world population the opportunity in the virtual world can't be exhausted more work force will still be needed

Unfortunately? Lol!

Imagine a scenario where everyone works online...
Oh, you don't have to imagine a scenario, we just had a real-life experience where for a few months a part of the workforce was forced to work for home and a part was forced to shut down.
And you can see all the shortages still happening one year later, the price increase, the bankruptcies, the broken logistics chain?

Unfortuantely?
If everyone would be busy designing logos, making videos, and trading, who is going to pay for these?
If everyone would be doing freelancing work, who would be the customer?
And who would sell you bread and milk, a computer, clothes, and furniture provide you with electricity and heat and internet?




I can see a lot of demand for digital skills there, especially with no electricity for at least 10 days counting.

Skills in general, not just digital skills. In times of crisis, you are always at an advantage if you have the skills, more like real-life skills rather than online skills. If there is a world war happening, mostly likely there will be a severe interruption of the internet. Not just the internet but probably electricity and communication in general. There is a possibility that the world would be leveled and we'll be brought back to a kind of life only experienced ages ago. So skills like automotive, carpentry, plumbing, driving, dressmaking, haircutting, and the like would be of much help.

Internet usually being cut by Russian for Ukraine especially on the epicenter of war. I believe its better to evacuate first then go to a shelter since government and other country will surely help all the affected citizen of this war financially if that’s concern.

But the content of this thread focus on the general online skills to fight the global economic crisis due to the effect of war. I really don’t know how the point of OP will really help people to overcome economic crisis since the online salary is still same with fiat and the company will reduce there budget on online man power once the global hits them too.

We're living in a post-industrial society, where information, media and the digital world play major parts. So having digital skills is increasingly more important and can help understand the job market as well as get better jobs. Of course, there are always exceptions. If people live and intend to always live in a community that doesn't use any technologies, perhaps these people don't need digital skills. But all others certainly do. But even if you have good skills, it doesn't always mean you can use them and get paid for them.
As for the time of the war, digital skills can be very useful as long as you're in a place where there's Internet. In the current war between Russia in Ukraine, the Internet plays a huge part: people can report the movements of enemy troops via social media, people can take part in cyberattacks on enemy's websites and much more. But some regions have been cut off and without electricity for weeks in Ukraine (I have relatives in a region like that), so digital skills can't help them right now.

Naturally, picking up skills is pretty easy nowadays, though developing them to become something you can earn an income from may be a hard hurdle imo. After all, if you can pickup a skill, almost anyone can, and they may just be developing better than you are. So it's a contest at times really.

But then again, wouldn't that be partly their fault? I mean they're trying to live above a way their salaries can't handle. Though they aren't completely to blame, proper finance management should get you through times imo. That is unless said times are completely demolishing whatever plan you have aka big a f debts, disasters, etc.