Six figures Salary(US$), work at Google and Amazon, maybe not for you

Published By zooboole

Well, as surprising as this could sound, you and I have been experiencing the surge of many articles and videos all over youtube suggesting tricks and interview plans to get you into some of the well-known big tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. They easily mention salaries like hundreds of thousands of USD. They rent and live expensive lives and they say to change jobs and careers anytime they wish. They start blogs and other types of internet businesses and in just a few months they speak of thousands of dollars in income.

Honestly speaking, I am not going to say that I know what exactly that's, either true or false. But I want you to usually look at one important parameter — their location. In which country are they?

I want you and me to be aware that it's all information. It comes from developed countries and seems to be generalized to other parts of the world and looks like a standard for others. It shouldn't be like that. No, No. Another thing is that people have "non-catholic" tricks they are ready to use to generate incomes. This way of success is not also universal since they cannot tell you exactly how they make it. Besides, it's almost impossible for someone to give you the exact way they make money.

So, looking at the situation, most of us and especially, the new generation of developers tend to fall into that illusion without knowing that they are consuming information that's not necessarily for them.

Do not get discouraged if your blog is not paying yet, or if you haven't got any client since you started learning.

The Internet is a global market. The size of its population can transform anyone into a rich in a matter of no time. But, how things work on it still depends on real-life laws. Your ability to succeed offline can also be used online. The same privileges your country provides you in real life are available to you on the Internet as well. Inversely, what your country laws do not offer you is also not available on the Internet for you, of course, with some exceptions here and there.

What do you mean? you may ask.

Well, the key to success on the Internet is mostly financial transactions. Because after all, you want people to send you money. Due to the number of people on the Internet, having a way of collecting funds from people located all over the world is a great game-changer.

Unfortunately, it's not everyone from everywhere who is allowed to receive or send money. Only a few countries have that privilege and when you are legally in them you also benefit from those advantages. Have a look at PayPal, one of the giants in the online payment market. They only allow a few countries to fully use their services. To make it worst, the majority of countries, especially poor countries do not have the privilege to receive money, but they can send. Strange right?

You can continue to empty your country, but you will not be allowed to fill it up. Another great service of payment online is Stripe. Unfortunately too, they do not even bother to consider Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia. If you try to look at local solutions such as banks, you will be disappointed to see that the same limitations await you.

Wait! before you start throwing stones to those companies, have a look at your local politics. Sometimes, your countries have laws and policies which prevent them from servicing it. Plus, the attitude of people too can be a problem, and a good example can be that your country may be full of scam activities or other financial crimes like money laundering.

The point I am trying to make is that, as far as you are not allowed to receive money, you can not sell any value, service, or resource on the Internet. And not being able to make sales means no income for you.

On the other hand, you have affiliation and advertisement solutions like Google Adsense, Amazon affiliation, Patreon, etc. that allow you to have your income saved in an escrow account until you reach a certain threshold. Once you reach it you can request for them to send it to you. And guess what? they usually also require you the same things you have not access to such as a PayPal account. Look at a website like Skillshare. They only pay you out via PayPal. They hide behind PayPal's filtering system of regions. They don't have to say "Hey, you guys from Nigeria or Nepal are not allowed in here". PayPal already did that and it's not Skillshare's fault. It's yours.

You will receive payments for each month on the 16th of the following month. For example, you would receive payments for the minutes watched in your classes and referrals made from July 1st to July 31st on August 16th.

We send payments through PayPal. Unfortunately at this time, if you do not have a PayPal account, you cannot earn revenue from teaching on Skillshare.

Nonetheless, you are allowed to create an account, and share your content for free to increase their reputation and give them more content. For that you're welcome.

When you also consider some local efforts like ExpressPayGhana, SlidePay, or Paystack and Flutterwave from Nigeria, they all suffer the same limitations. The process of getting them implemented and getting your payout is so frustrating that you need to think twice before using them in a serious business model. To me, Paystack and Flutterwave are far better than the others. And they will surely free us one day if our governments get the chance to allow them to use their full potential. One major challenge they have now is that most people from developed countries do not like to use those systems to us down here for reasons such as security, trust, and cost.

The limitations I've just mentioned are just the tip of an iceberg. The situation is more complicated than you could imagine. But when you hear them talk they make it sound like "if you want it, you go for it". Noo! it doesn't work everywhere. The world is not perfect for everyone. What a blogger can earn in three months in Europe or the USA, an African blogger will take more than three years to make half of it, that's if they even get to earn something at all. Following these people blindly is actually what helps them accomplish such success, hence putting you astray. Stop it and do your thing.

Many people out there work harder than you could imagine. They put in an amazing amount of determination and consistency, but their system cripples them every day.

To add a little to all I just said, in these developed countries jobs are granted (in most cases) to people with merit due to their effort and knowledge. Contrary to most of our poor countries where jobs are granted through nepotism. People with less knowledge and experience end up being employed and they will be in charge of judging(interviewing) those who have the experience. Friends and families are afraid of referring to each other because they don't want them to come and take their positions. In short, knowledge here doesn't necessarily matter much. So, making the #100daysOfCoding and posting on twitter or LinkedIn does not work here. Nobody cares.

That's why I always preach hard work. Learn hard as if you were going to create the next Google for yourself. Do not do to impress people. They won't your time because they are also busy. At some point, you will still acquire the required skills to work at Google. With some little luck, you could meet people who will recommend you to great people and brands. That makes it even less stressful.