I’m 17 years old in sixthform balancing 3 alevels and sport. I’ve been looking for a skill to learn that would help me on later in life. People have mentioned learning ai proficiency, sales, content creation and such and I’m looking at learning n8n to try and both make a bit of money by selling my services and understand how ai and the internet works for the future.
Is this something I should consider taking up or is there something else I should look at?
Posted by Royal-Stay-1577
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I think right now it’s more important to be an AI generalist, rather than an expert at a specific tool, unless you really plan to use that tool long term. The risk that the landscape is change so quickly, it’s possible this tool is obsolete in a year.
I’ve never heard of n8n, I had to look it up. It seems like it’s about the same as the 100 other “drag and drop to to build and agentic workflow that call APIs” services available.
So, if that one tickles your fancy, go try it out. I would try to find data on what the top used platforms are, and play with all of them. If you want to concentrate on one, fine, but I think the value would really be in learning why use one over the other, what functionality do they all offer that’s similar, hoe are they different, how quickly are they changing, etc.
General rule of technology, understand the fundamentals, and then you can apply them to any platform, coding language, system, etc. things will always change, and you’ll always have to learn the new hotness, get good at learning quickly, writing, analyzing, and delivering results quickly, those skills will be forever transferable.
Sales you can definitely learn
I’d get really good a project management structure, and project management as a whole. It will be able to be used in a large variety of fields and will keep you organized with whatever you decide to do later in life.