Many professionals can gain high-income skills with just a few hours per week, converting leisure time into career development. High-income skills include cybersecurity, AI, data science, leadership, negotiation, and digital marketing. These skills can protect against layoffs, enable salary increases, support career pivots, and facilitate business launches. A curated list offers 20 courses and certificates that take two hours or less, including ISC2 Express Courses: 14 micro-courses of one-to-two hours each focused on in-demand cybersecurity skills. Cybersecurity demand has risen about 33% according to the BLS, and entry-level salaries can start around $118,000.
And yet, between several meetings, projects, and your personal priorities (including, of course, the binge-watching), professional development and career growth often sinks to the bottom of your to-do list. But you cannot afford to let your upskilling endeavors suffer. In 2025, high-income skills are the very currency of your career success. You could afford to switch off the TV for just a couple hours a week.
ISC2, the leading professional body and membership association for the cybersecurity industry, recently dropped its Express Courses offering, which is a group of 14 one-to-two-hour micro-courses teaching specific skills that are most in demand within cybersecurity. The demand for cybersecurity professionals is up 33% according to the BLS, and salaries, even at entry-level, start from about $118,000, according to Salary.com.
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