#1864 - First $1,000: “It was the Super Bowl of professional fishing…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s First $1,000 segment, we hear from Pete Robbins, a government lawyer who gets paid to go fishing and write about it. His best advice: “Press the damn send button.”
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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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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:38.2 | Hey, what's up? Thanks for tuning in. This is Side Usual School. I am your host, Chris |
| 0:42.4 | Gillibot. I'm going to bring you a new story in our segment known as First $1000. |
| 0:48.0 | First $1000, as you might guess, it's all about how someone made their first $1000. |
| 0:53.2 | If you've been enjoying working on these stories this year, we've got a whole bunch of them |
| 0:57.2 | in the pipeline. The whole point is when you begin to earn some real money, the steps required |
| 1:03.1 | to go to the next level, whether it's $1000 to $2000 or $5,000 or $10,000, those steps are often |
| 1:09.2 | easier than that first real paycheck. The story you're going to hear today will illustrate |
| 1:13.4 | that very well, especially in the sense of just get going. With that in mind, today's feature |
| 1:20.4 | comes from Pete Robbins. Pete's a pretty cool guy. We first featured him back on episode 1550, |
| 1:26.8 | government lawyer Lann's Whale of a Side Gig. Pete is in fact that attorney, the government lawyer |
| 1:32.6 | who makes a very good second income, traveling to fishing events and writing about the world |
| 1:38.0 | of professional fishing. This world has all kinds of adventures and nuance and personalities and |
| 1:43.0 | such. Let's talk about his $1000. Let's let him talk about it. How did he make it happen? What |
| 1:48.5 | did it feel like? What did he learn? History involves what's known as the Super Bowl of Bass Fishing, |
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