Your Skill Level = Your Success Rate

DABK, I find myself often in agreement with you...

HOWEVER,

Your implication that Sir Adam Sandler is anything less than the GOAT, the Greatest Actor of our generation, is...

well, simply outrageous.

As much as he has been paid, I would have to say, he was grossly underpaid for his skills, so maybe in this case, OP has a point

GordonJ

"Basic economy" is supplying a product or service that meets the demands of a market. And just because a job is easy to do, doesn't mean the employees don't already have skills in other areas - just that they're unable to put those skills to a more profitable use.

In the UK, the Institute for Public Policy Research estimated that in 2016, around 18% of the total workforce were overqualified for the work they were doing. ( https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...our-job-skills ) If you're going to spend time, effort and money acquiring a skill to achieve "success", you'd better make sure that skill helps you fulfill an existing need or desire and is valued accordingly by the market.

Things have definitely changed since I worked at McDonald's. I know about the food safety and OSHA requirements, but when I worked at McDonald's, it probably was only an hour of training and they didn't train me about food safety then. Training consisted of, "wear gloves, throw hamburgers that fell on the floor in the garbage, mark the waste in this book". lol

i really don't want to go to a surgeon or dentist who does not have years of the proper training and he correct insurances and proper equipment working environment .

there are skills the classroom environment is ideal for and a rigid education program is good for i think the best system or the system that produes the best results tends to be the military training programs in the Us ..as it tend to have classroom and hands on training that is guided by either soldiers who do it or highly qualified civilians who many time are former soldiers .

lawyers doctors .. and many medical firles and training ourse are set up as much to limit the number of practitioners to keep wages high to justify cost of training .

but you are right the are man skills if not most now that can be learned from someone in the field doing it or now with the falling cost of production equipment and the ever greater access to the end user by the producer .. there is many skills people an learn on their own and then find a paying customer for their skill level and over time build a broader set of skills in that area .

the higher cost and more certifications the more likely the career track is high wage employee ..

but craftman can take a 10,000 dollar mobile lumber mill . and the other power tools needed and mill their own limber grown on their own land make make it into furniture custom made for certain customers and make a real good living ..from a wokshopp on their property .

if you don't have the high intelligence level or the native talent and the you havn't started purrin the 15 years of training and education in starting when you are 12 .

the skills sets you are going to most likely have to develop to achieve the six figure better income level are sales, marketing ,basic business skills and craft skill or production skills .

in which case you are correct all those can be learned from other people.. and many other people