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Owen Rascovitch

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2532 total appearances

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Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

Or going to the library and getting a few books on different topics that you would never think about reading otherwise.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

Mm-hmm.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

So it's so easy nowadays, I think, even with the internet.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

There's so many online courses and it doesn't mean a $2,000 uni subject.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

Udemy, Khan Academy, Skillshare, they all have really cheap $20, $30 you can learn from someone who's an expert in whatever their area is, whether that's bread making, playing the ukulele or Pythagoras Theorem.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

And it's all on there and you can actually learn from people's experiences and grow.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

And it doesn't have to be the area that you're working on in your career.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

So you might be a data scientist and you're going to learn psychology in the evening so you can improve the picture you can paint with the numbers.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

So that's one I've seen with a colleague of mine recently.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

But

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

I think the skill you're putting effort into doesn't necessarily have to be related to your career.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

You might be trying to improve in music and you're in law, just anything like that.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

It's just growing your ability to learn and developing your skill sets.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

another thing also is a side hustle that's sort of become overdone recently the whole everyone's writing about them but just doing something on the side even if you don't end up making any money you learn a lot of skills from actually putting something together whether it be

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

how to sell a product or how to write copy or how to getting and talking to people in your community and things like that and even volunteering you learn a lot of skills as well and so if you're doing whether it be an online course you're actually getting out and doing something in your community you're just building those skill sets and you might not even realize

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

You mentioned Card Academy just before.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

That's a free resource online and you can get it on YouTube or you can go to their website.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

And I used that website when I was studying postgraduate business analytics.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

And I found that the free courses on YouTube were better than the lecturers at my university.

Australian Finance Podcast
Invest In Yourself, HECS and Side Hustles

And that's a free resource, right?