The speaker considered Uber and stripping as backup plans when they had no marketable skills, estimating $150,000 annually. After learning sales, they found high-value skills could generate $250,000-$400,000 yearly. Most monetizable skills are free online and learnable in about 20 hours, creating a real safety net against poverty.
My plan B was if I lost everything way back in the day when I didn't have the skills I have now, I would have driven Uber and I would have stripped. Because what skills did I have? I was in shape. I can look good enough to strip. Now people are like, I can't believe you said that. That's because you believe other people's judgments more than I did. All right, I was cool with it because to me being poor hurt more than other people thinking that I stripped. If I drove Uber during the day and I stripped tonight, I knew I could make $150,000 a year. As soon as I learned how to sell, selling became a baseline that was above that because you can make $250,000, $300,000, $400,000 a year being a top salesman. At a company. And I was like, okay, well, I don't need to drive Uber or strip because that's a better plan B. And that became my new plan B. The more skills you have, the lower your baseline is. Like, you don't fall past a certain level because you have a skill that can be monetized. That's the new baseline. And then from there, continues to go up. But all of that was just from skills. And guess what? They're all readily available for free on the internet. That most people spend 4 years waiting to try and start to learn something when it takes 20 hours to become proficient at most skills.
