These 5 Skills Will Pay You More Than Your Degree – Learn Them Before It’s TOO LATE!!

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Wait!! WHAT?

I know it’s really hard or I can say impossible for you to believe what you’ve seen above in the title, but that’s the harsh reality, and with all the grief you have no option rather than believing it!
This is an era where your degree has nearly zero worth, only the skills, the amount of knowledge and the experience that you have can only get you paid. You can’t just be dependent on your degree to earn money and be totally realxed about it, you have to develop and upeade your skills according to the revolutionizing technology to be in the race and eventually win it!!

Introduction:

That is why today I am here to provide you the 5 most demanding skills in 2025, that can really get you paid more than your degree, on which you’ve wasted your 3-4 years blindly! Once you’ve learnt a minimum of only one of these skills and master it, you’d be making nothing less than 1,00,000/month which obviously requires time, patience, hardwork and a lot of discipline.
So let’s jump in without any further waste of time!!

1. AI and Prompt Engineering

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In this fast paced world, which is constantly developing on the roads of AI, where each and every industry is just hiring AI bots, People who can use AI efficiently, and Prompt Engineers, why are you still here just thinking about it, when you can just master this skill in just a few steps, and by giving sometime to yourself, and get a payment as high as 1,00,000/month!!
Let’s explore what is AI and Prompt Engineering.

 

  • WHAT IS AI AND PROMPT ENGINEERING? AND HOW CAN YOU MAKE MONEY FROM IT??

In today’s fast developing world, every new emerging industry is dependent on AI, which is eating up job of many professionals as AI can handle their tasks more efficiently, and despite the fact that it’s really killing their jobs, it’s eventually giving rise to new ones, if you learn the correct skills. That include skills like, training the AI models, Making personalised AI assistants, and Prompting the AI to utilize it’s maximum outcome.
Today, companies are willing to pay AI experts, and Prompt Engineers salaries as high as 12 to 15 LPA!! It can be low in the initial phases like only 5 to 8 LPA, but still if you stay locked in and learn each and every aspect of AI and Prompt Engineering seriously, do all the side projects, build your portfolio, so there’s no doubt that you can achieve anything that you dream of achieving!! 
Here is a small roadmap to how can you achieve this:

  •  BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION

The first step in learning anything is to build a strong foundation, making your basics strong, it is the first and the most important step. In order to pursue your career in AI and Prompt Engineering, you have to first clear your basics in: 
Python, You’ll also have to learn the mathematical topics of linear algebra, probablity and statistics, You’ll think that ‘Where i’ll use math in prgramming and AI??’, But trust me it does help in manipulating the data, and various algorithms. 
You’ll also need to clear your basics in Machine Learning, i agree it is really a vast topic, but you just have to clear the basics, you don’t have to dive deep in the ocean of machine learning.
You have to understand what are Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they work.
After you’ve achieved all these milestones, you’ll just have to do some side projects, build your portfolio and maintain your profile along LinkedIn, X, and across other platforms to get more profile views and eventually get hired!!
I totally understand that, only this level of knowledge will not be enough, to get started, so we’ll release another blog just on this topic, and in addition to that me and my team are working hard and looking forward to release a roadmap to get you started. If you need any further guidance you can contact us, don’t hesitate that’s free!!

2. UI/UX Designing

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  • WHY UI/UX DESIGNING??

Despite the fact that not a majority of the peoples are talking about UI/UX designing, but UI and UX designing is still the most demanding skill in the business and tech sectors. The emerging, and also the big scaled businesses prioritize their website designs, their application’s design, their User Interface, as it affects the user retention, it also affects the time that the user will spend on their website just because of its, design and interface.
So, if you are interested in designing, Here’s a quick guide of how you can do it:

  • HOW TO MASTER UI/UX DESIGNING

In order to master this skill, and get paid as high as ₹ 1,00,000/month! or even higher when you master it!
The thing which you have to do in the utmost priority is that you have to learn designing, not any software at first, learn designing, learn topics like • What is designing?
• How colors affect the human brain?
• Which colors do people like the most?
• Which color triggers which emotion?
• What are the designs people would like to see?
Once you’ve learnt all this, then you should jump on to learning skills like Figma, Adobe XD, Usability Testing (how easy a website/application is to interact), Wireframing (placements of elements) etc. Once you learn all these skills, which won’t take much of your time if you are focused and disciplined towards your work, you can start building your portfolio. Anything close to 3-4 projects is considered to be a good start.
Then when you’ll get hired, and make connections, you’ll start getting more and more work via your connections.

3. Blogging and SEO Writing

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Yess! Here it is, Blogging and SEO Writing. As you all know what blogging is, but for a quick glimpse, blogging is sharing your thoughts, views, reviews and advices on a particular topic online, in the form of an article/blog post, is known as blogging. You would be now thinking what is SEO Writing, so let me enlighten you with this topic that, SEO Writing is the art of writing a post in such a way that Search Engines, and viewers both get your post, engaging, and worth knowing.

  • WHY BLOGGING??

Blogging is one of the most efficient way to make money online, and also there are many indirect benefits that blogging gives you if you start blogging early. The benefits like, starting blogging early will build your online presense and get you known among some people, you can establish a network of people who can help you further if you wanna build something else, you have the data, which is the most important resource in this time

  • HOW YOU COULD MAKE MONEY FROM BLOGGING AND SEO WRITING

There are many effective ways to make money from blogging but there are certain skills to master here too, in order to make money, which includes:
• Copywriting
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
• Basic coding, HTML, CSS, JS (OPTIONAL, IF USING WORDPRESS)
• Keyword Research
• Basic AI prompting

These are the skills you’ll need to learn to build a great career in blogging, rememeber blogging isn’t a quick shortcut, it has an exponential graph to success, so never lose hope. We are looking forward to provide our readers with the best ever blogging roadmap stay tuned with us, you can be the one to get it for freee!!
We’ve written a post totally dedicated to blogging and how can you pursue blogging as a career if you want to pursue blogging it is a must read for you, you can check it out by clicking here!

4. Full Stack Development

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You could be shocked to see Full Stack Development here in this list, after all the advancement that AI has made in the field of website development, coding and programming. But trust me, Full Stack Development is not dead at all!

  • HOW IT’S NOT DEAD AT ALL!!

You’d be thinking that website development is just dead because of these exceptional advancement that AI has made in this field, but it’s not the whole truth, it has been fed to your mind, but that’s not true. Yess i agree AI can make very good sites and designs, but you have to accept the fact that, the code that AI writes, isn’t that clean as a human’s code, it’s not very portable or manageable. So still there are requirements of people who can understand the code written by AI, modify it accordingly, make it manageable and portable and SEO optimised, and to edit that code you need to learn HTML, CSS, JS and its various workflows.

  • HOW YOU CAN START FULL STACK WEB DEV??

To start with Full Stack Development you have to learn and polish your skills by practicing with various small projects and eventually bigger projects to add to your profile, resume and portfolio. The skills you’ll need in order to be a developer are:
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• React JS
• jQuery
• Logic Building etc.

These are the basic skills that you need to master in order to start your web development journey, you’ll learn many new things on your way, but these are the must. The next step will be to, build some projects and display them on your portfolio site, remember, your portfolio site itself is a project of how good are you in your work!

5. DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms)

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I think this is the one thing that you all were waiting for, and yess, it is really the most demanding and most paid skill in this era. This ist the skill in which you can easily get paid more than ₹1,00,000/month!!

  • WHY IS IT SOO DEMANDING??

The first and most major reason that DSA is so demanding in the tech industries is that, DSA IS TOUGH!!. As it’s tough not everyone who starts learning DSA can’t grasp it’s concepts and leaves it midway, so there’s a shortage of DSA specialists in the tech industry. While this being not the sole reason behind DSA being in demand it’s still one of them, and a major reason!

  • HOW CAN YOU BE THE ONE IN DSA??

Despite being hard, it’s not entirely impossible to learn, everything is possible when you have that fire within you, and an unbreakable focus and undestructible discipline. While DSA covers a very vast number of topics, the most important concepts that can get you to your destination in DSA are:
• Arrays
• Linked lists
• Stacks & Queues
• Tress
• Graph and Hashing
• Dynamic Programming
• Backtracking etc.

While it’s not so easy to explain DSA’s roadmap in this small section, if we got enough comments on this post for DSA roadmap, we’ll be out with a post totally focusing on the roadmap of DSA.

Conclusion:

In this post we discussed about the TOP 5 skills in 2025 that can help you earn ₹1,00,000/month or more! We discussed about the topics and concepts essential to master those skills, and how can a person pursue career in it, and get work efficiently. We discussed about the skills that are
1. AI and Prompt Engineering
2. UI/UX Design
3. Blogging and SEO Writing 
4. Full Stack Development
5. DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms)

We’ll be discussing about all the topics mentioned above in an independent blog for each!!

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