#2148 - Failure Friday: “I invested in a franchise and now I feel stuck…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from an investor who buys into a national franchise—then realizes he’s essentially bought himself a job.
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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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:00.0 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to Sideosel School. |
| 0:14.5 | It's Chris Gellibot, and guess what? |
| 0:16.5 | With that introduction, you might already know this is Failure Friday. |
| 0:20.8 | Failure Friday, our weekly collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 0:25.2 | all of the things that go wrong. |
| 0:27.9 | All the things that don't go exactly as anticipated or expected or even hoped for. |
| 0:33.3 | Just like our Thurberack Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from a Sideosel or |
| 0:37.0 | a new business owner and entrepreneur, somebody who has struggled to get something off the |
| 0:40.6 | ground. |
| 0:41.6 | They tell you the story, along with a lesson, that you can apply in your own quest to create |
| 0:45.6 | extra income without quitting your job. |
| 0:48.2 | Speaking of jobs, today's short story features Mike and Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:53.6 | Mike decided to buy into a franchise. |
| 0:56.0 | Long ago, that was my aspiration as well. |
| 0:58.6 | Back when I was, I don't know, 20 years old or something, I wanted to own a mailbox, etc. |
| 1:02.4 | franchise. |
| 1:03.6 | Never did that. |
| 1:05.4 | His Mike explains, maybe I made a good decision, actually. |
| 1:08.7 | Maybe it wasn't a bad decision to skip that whole purchasing a franchise thing. |
| 1:13.6 | Although for him, it also wasn't the worst decision in the world. |
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