#1043 - Writer-Editor Makes Six-Figure Life Revision
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A writer finds financial freedom by editing other people’s work, eventually building his own agency.
Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're interested in a career in publishing or just doing something with publishing for |
| 0:12.7 | your side hustle, there's more than one option. |
| 0:14.8 | Now, a while back, we looked at the story of a woman who edits romance novels. |
| 0:18.2 | That was episode 808, the 50 shades of editing romance novels. |
| 0:22.9 | She liked that genre a lot. |
| 0:23.9 | I guess you could say she fell in love with it, but she didn't want to be a writer herself. |
| 0:27.9 | That's when she discovered that she was well suited to editing. |
| 0:30.8 | We've also featured somebody who writes wedding vows. |
| 0:33.3 | Actually, it's paid well to do that. |
| 0:34.6 | That was episode 281. |
| 0:36.8 | Somebody else who helps B corporations, companies like Patagonia, tell their stories, episode 916. |
| 0:44.0 | And this principle doesn't only apply to publishing. |
| 0:46.0 | It applies to other industries as well. |
| 0:47.5 | There's often more than one path. |
| 0:48.7 | There's often more than one role in these different kinds of fields. |
| 0:51.9 | So I think the lesson is to first focus on your skill, |
| 0:55.6 | whatever it is that you're good at, whatever it is that you're drawn to and you like to study. |
| 0:59.4 | And then consider what the ultimate outcome is. |
| 1:01.9 | Like what kind of industry, profession, career, job, or of course, side hustle, |
| 1:06.5 | what kind of form that could take. |
| 1:08.6 | So welcome to Side Hustle School. |
| 1:10.0 | My name is Chris Guilapo. |
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