I read countless articles about how the new technology "RPA" is the future of work. I could COMPLETELY relate after what I just went through.
If RPA could automate my work to help me do my work faster and more accurately and then I don't have to do that boring work, it sounds like a WIN-WIN for everyone!
I took the idea to my boss to use RPA for our repetitive processes, but the company I worked for had a very old fashioned mind-set and didn't want to change their ways of doing things.
The boring and tedious work didn't stop for months and I knew I NEEDED to make a change.
So what I did is, while I still had my full-time job (which I hated) I started learning UiPath after-hours with the UiPath Academy courses.
It helped me understand the basics of UiPath, however the courses were very fast-paced, skips vital steps and worst of all, the courses were very academic.
They were not project-based, so it was difficult to learn how I would use the tool in real-world projects. It took me about 3 MONTHS just to cover the basics!
I then jumped into the deep-end and created a profile on the freelancing site UpWork and I got a few small RPA jobs and gained some real-world experience.
I then landed my first RPA contract of $3000 per month to do the automation for a health-tech startup.
That contract was TRIPLE my salary, so I quit my job in a heartbeat to focus on RPA full-time.
I then landed another contract, then another contract, and then ANOTHER CONTRACT which moulded into my automation consultancy, FutureRPA.
RPA was in such high demand (and still is) that finding work is so easy.
All you need to do is reach-out to companies, ask them what repetitive processes they have, and then offer to automate it for them to get a time and cost saving.
And even easier than that, is to land a high-paying job as an RPA Developer because of the HIGH DEMAND AND SHORTAGE of RPA talent.
I have spent the last few years helping hundreds of people around the world learn RPA and kick-start their careers as RPA Developer.
However, if you don't know me or the courses I teach, you may be wondering - "What in the world is RPA?", so...