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Side Hustle School

#1042 - Health Scare Inspires Adventurous Career Change

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Careers, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneurship,

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A longing for independence leads a graphic designer to create an adventure-themed brand of totes, mugs, and more.

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0:00.0

And today's story! A longing for independence and a health scare inspires a graphic designer

0:14.5

to reinvent herself and create an adventure-themed brand of shirts, totes, mugs, and more.

0:20.4

Last year she made a full-time income from this project and she did it while traveling

0:25.0

for almost half a year, 162 days to be exact. Welcome to Sadisle School, my name is Chris

0:31.2

Guilapoe, and there is more than one way to do most projects. So it's important to choose

0:35.9

your values, identify what's important to you, and then make your decisions accordingly.

0:40.7

In this case, independence was the primary value, this person really wanted freedom and independence,

0:46.0

and that's what enabled her to build it in a way that allows for so much traveling.

0:50.8

Part of the way she's able to do that is by relying on a production partner. Now,

0:54.4

somebody else out there might say, well, I actually would want to do everything myself,

0:57.6

I would want complete control over the project. So again, that's why it's important to choose your

1:01.7

values and make your decisions accordingly. So in this story, I'll tell you how she navigates

1:06.6

this challenge and perhaps it will inspire you to think through one of your own. That story is

1:11.0

coming up in just 30 seconds. Stay tuned.

1:24.5

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1:34.3

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1:42.5

One Thanksgiving a few years ago, graphic designer Julia Taylor was recovering from surgery.

1:59.0

While getting ready to trudge through the snow on crutches, she received a text from a co-worker

2:03.9

asking her to look into why one of their websites was down. It didn't matter that it was

2:07.9

Thanksgiving. Julia was the only one in her company's IT department. Something needed to change.

2:14.7

She had started working as a web designer when the field was just finding its legs. She worked

2:18.9

at that job for eight years through lots of changes and layoffs. That Thanksgiving was the last straw,

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