Learning & talent
Does this skill pay off?
"Should I spend a weekend learning this?" usually has a number behind it. Weigh the hours to learn a skill against the time it saves every week, and see when it breaks even and what it returns over a year. Often the answer is "yes, embarrassingly fast."
- Pays for itself in
- 8 wks
- Net hours saved / year
- 110h
- First-year return
- 6.5x
This only counts time. The compounding part, that a learned skill keeps paying every year after, makes the real return far higher.