Nick Ford

I really have no bones about, some people don't like to talk about, I don't want to say that I just want to have tons and tons and tons of money and never have to worry about money again, but I do.

And that's my vision.

And I have no problem saying it.

My vision in five years is to have so much money that I can do whatever I choose to do, whether that's continuing AI automation full-time, whether that's just hanging out for a couple of years.

I might even still work full time for my nine to five job, frankly, because I'm one of these fortunate people that really loves like I love what I do in my full time job.

And it's really like paradoxical because a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of side hustlers do that because they don't like their full time job and they're trying to get out of like the rat race.

I am excited to go into work every day.

So it's a really unique situation.

That's why the question of like, where do you see yourself in five years in terms of vision?

I don't have a definite need for because I think like the default answer or an answer that you probably get common is like in five years, I see myself out of my full time job, not working for anybody, you know, running my own own business and being financially free.

That's like and there's nothing wrong with that.

But I'm kind of like an outlier where like I actually enjoy what I do full time.

So it's kind of tricky to navigate that.

In 2025, I would say that the best thing, the best skill that you can learn, right, is, and it may, it's not a vehicle in the sense that it's a business model, which I'll recommend a business model, but the biggest skill is marketing, right?

Because it doesn't just apply to business.

It applies to yourself.

If you understand how to market a product and if you start considering yourself a product, which I don't necessarily do that, but you get what I'm saying.

You can market yourself in such a way that will get you where you want to go.

So learning marketing is number one, whether taking AI out of the mix, taking whatever out of the mix.

You can apply the concepts of marketing to anything.