On Jul 3, 9:16*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
terry writes:
If your happiness depends on money then presumably you have had at
least 2 years to do some serious soul searching on why you dont have
money?

Yes.

What skills do you lack to find a well paying job?

I have skills, but where I live, skills are only a small part of getting a
job. *You have to be of the right ethnicity, have the right contacts, be the
right age, be a graduate of the right schools (just having a degree may not be
sufficient, if it's not from the right place), and so on. *Skills come last.

For some jobs, you can also be too skilled. *Many companies want to hire
someone who has the requisite skills but no others, because it's perceived as
being cheaper. *In this case, it's easy to be overqualified.

You obviously dont lack confidence in your intellectual abilities.

You can't earn money with intellectual ability alone.

In fact, many of us do, with APPLIED intellectual ability. Some of us
have even changed careers and succeeded (in some cases) again. It's
the utilization of those skills that matter. Did you not, some time
ago, tell us how many hours you spent with MSFS? What if those hours
had been spent more productively? There's a time for effective work,
and a time for effective play. If one's priorities are inverted bad
things happen -- poverty, depression, excuse making rather than
problem solving. If you want something different than what you have,
you're going to have to do something different than what you do. As
Nike likes to say, "(Get off your ass and) Just Do it".