#247 - Target Store Manager Makes $45,000 Per Month Writing a Blog
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A college student starts a blog, grows it for 7 years while he works full-time at Target, and now makes more than half a million dollars a year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome back to Side Hustle School, I'm Chris Gillibow, and today is Labor Day. |
| 0:11.9 | Or at least if you're listening in real time, today is the first Monday of September, |
| 0:16.4 | Labor Day in the US and Canada, a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers |
| 0:20.4 | have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of the country. |
| 0:24.3 | As I said, that's in the US and Canada. |
| 0:26.4 | I think some other countries also observed Labor Day on different dates during the year. |
| 0:31.2 | And I guess wherever you are, the question is still relevant, what are you laboring for? |
| 0:35.4 | Like, what are you hoping to create for yourself? |
| 0:37.0 | Like, why do you go to work every day? |
| 0:39.0 | Or let's say you go to work because you have a job, you have to do it, that's fine. |
| 0:42.6 | What are you trying to create for yourself? |
| 0:44.6 | What is the freedom and security that you want to see in your life? |
| 0:47.1 | What are your goals? |
| 0:48.2 | What do you hope to achieve for yourself? |
| 0:49.8 | For your family, if you have one? |
| 0:51.9 | For six months from now, for a year from now, for your long-term future. |
| 0:55.8 | That's what a side hustle is all about. |
| 0:57.2 | That's what I'm trying to teach you on this daily show. |
| 0:59.8 | And today's story is pretty fantastic. |
| 1:01.5 | I chose a good one for Labor Day. |
| 1:03.3 | It is about a target store employee who starts a blog that goes on to make $45,000 a month. |
| 1:10.0 | I'll just repeat that for emphasis. |
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