#1328 - TBT: Cybersecurity Training Becomes 7-Figure Business
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a former adjunct professor who put his course on YouTube and earned $100,000. It’s now grown to employ ten people and bring in seven-figures a year.
Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to Thurback Thursday. Welcome, first of all, to |
| 0:08.8 | Side Us All School. Welcome to our Thurback Thursday segment. Are we taking an |
| 0:13.0 | in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved considerably since we first |
| 0:16.8 | featured them? This has been one of my favorite things of 2020 to go back to some |
| 0:21.4 | of our popular stories from years of old by which I mean 2017, 2018 and 2019. |
| 0:27.0 | And just kind of check in with folks and see, you know, hey, what's happened? And in a |
| 0:32.4 | lot of cases, we've heard some really surprising updates, sometimes some really |
| 0:36.0 | big successes, sometimes some challenges and missteps, and sometimes just, you know, |
| 0:40.6 | things that you wouldn't expect. Last week we heard from the co-owner of Near and |
| 0:45.9 | Deer. Deer is spelled like Dear the Animal, D-E-E-E-R. Near and Deer, a faux |
| 0:51.2 | taxidormy service that experienced a huge influx of orders in the spring. I |
| 0:55.6 | guess when you're quarantined, you think, you know, what I need right now, what I |
| 0:59.3 | really need is an artificial bison head to put on my wall. Well, true story, |
| 1:03.6 | apparently a lot of people did think that because their business has taken off |
| 1:06.8 | even further than it was when we first featured them. So today we're going to |
| 1:10.3 | hear from Jason Dion. Now, Jason does not make artificial deer heads or bison |
| 1:16.0 | heads or any other artificial animal heads. But we first featured Jason back |
| 1:20.4 | in episode 462, adjunct professor puts course on YouTube for a $100,000 profit. |
| 1:27.4 | So even if it might not sound as exciting as faux taxidermy, his business is doing |
| 1:32.1 | really, really well. And for all the teachers out there, all of the adjunct |
| 1:36.1 | instructors in particular, this is a huge problem in the US, maybe elsewhere as |
| 1:40.0 | well, all those adjunct instructors who are underpaid maybe go and listen to |
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