At some point in our lives, we have all happened upon a spontaneous desire to learn how to do something. These desires can range from learning how to play the guitar to brushing up on advanced physics concepts. However, whether or not we succeed in these endeavors is a completely different story.

I know when I began to learn how to play the ukulele, I wrestled with paying substantial amounts of money for face-to-face music lessons and the ultimately easier but unreliable alternative of YouTube. Despite the fact that now I’m mostly self-taught, Skillshare would have saved me loads of grief in my quest to conquer the uke.

Skillshare is a “learning community for creators and makers”. Structured online, Skillshare’s mission is to unlock the world’s creativity by providing the world with the resources to do so. Members must pay $10 a month to have access to all of Skillshare’s features, including classes, projects and lessons from teachers around the globe. And not only can you learn, but you can also teach.

From that $10 a month subscription, Skillshare pays its teachers once they obtain a class of at least 25 enrolled students. Teachers are then paid through a royalty pool (the pool of money left after the company is paid per subscription). From that point on, teachers earn revenue based directly on the number of subscriptions to their class, and the number of student projects completed. For example, if 5% of the subscriptions in the royalty pool for the month of December were in a class you taught, you earn 5% of the money in the royalty pool.

On average, Skillshare teachers earn about $3500 per year, but the top 10 make an average of $30,000, and the payoff from Skillshare is more than 300 times better than the payoff from Spotify or YouTube. Not only does the program provide additional income to its teachers, but some have been so successful that they’ve decided to quit their day jobs.

One man who now makes $100,000 from Skillshare annually talked to Huffington Post about his success: “I never thought I could make that much money just sharing what I love.”

If you ever find yourself wondering why you were gifted with a seemingly useless talent, you might want to think twice about how ‘useless’ it is. Truthfully, people want to learn all sorts of things across the globe and will go to great lengths to find the resources to do so. Skillshare is proof of that. And, in times of economic disparity, a weird talent could give you the source of income you need.

So, join today! Just visit https://www.skillshare.com/signup to start teaching, learning, and sharing to your heart’s content.