Niño: The next is: In either choosing a business or a career path, which do you think you should anchor it on: your passion or your skill set?

Sean: In my opinion, business or career path, if you only had two choices, passion or skill set, I would go for skillset. Because if you're so passionate about something but you're not really great at it, that's going to take you a while to get paid well and to really enjoy the team, enjoy the work and enjoy the job. So I'd go for a skillset. You're really good at it and you have to learn to love it.

Here's the truth. You're not really going to love 100% of what you do. That's why we call it work and not play. A lot of people think, "I should love my work, so I don't have to work every single day of my life. You know, it's fun for me because I love my job." You're going to learn to love it up to 50%. And if you love 70%, 80% of it, fantastic, great for you, but it will never be a 100%.

Even for me as CEO of SEO Hacker, I've been doing it for over a decade now. I don't love 100% of my job. There are parts of my job that I don't like. It's really like that. Work is like that. There are some parts that you're not going to like. I wouldn't focus too much on passion. I know a lot of people, a lot of speakers would say, "Focus on your passion. Focus on your passion." But if I'm going to choose between skillset and passion, I'm going to choose skillset.

So when I was starting out I knew I love writing and I'm really good at it. So that's great because I have both. But I'm also quite good at logic and understanding how code works. I can't build code. I can't write code that well, but I understand how it works when I read it. So I pursued SEO.

One facet that I loved about SEO is writing. I'm not really that great when it comes to marketing. When I started out, I'm not really that great when it came to programming. So I'd say maybe 20% to 30% of the job I was passionate about. The rest I was not passionate about.

I was not passionate about legal matters. I'm definitely not passionate about sales during that time. I'm an introvert, so I'm not really good at sales. I'm not great at drafting contracts and proposals. I didn't like a lot of things about the job, but I did have the skill set to take me to the next level. So yeah, my answer: there is going to be a skill set. I hope that helps.

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